Summary: Report submitted to the Third Committee of the 62nd Session of the UN General Assembly which will open on 18 September 2007.This year's Report of the Secretary-General on the Status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, is...
[28 June 2007] - The present report, submitted pursuant to Security Council resolution 1612 (2005), covers the major developments related to the situation of children and armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since the previous...
Summary: The 'Legislative History of the Convention on the Rights of the Child' is the result of ten years of work by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Save the Children Sweden.Please be aware that this document, which comes...
Summary: "Hope for the Girl Child" shares some of World Vision’s programmes and the lessons learned through their work to improve the status of the girl child. Reports from World Vision El Salvador, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Armenia, India...
Summary: Although girls make up a small minority of children who come in conflict with the law, they are vulnerable to violence, particularly sexual abuse and rape, by both police and staff in detention facilities. This 5-page background paper...
Summary: Part of Chapter 5, of the report "What Future? Street Children in the Democratic Republic of Congo", published by Human Rights Watch in April 2006.The tens of thousands of children living on the streets are easy targets for manipulation by...
[NEW YORK/GENEVA, 11 December 2006] – Eliminating gender discrimination and empowering women will have a profound and positive impact on the survival and well-being of children, according to a new UNICEF report issued on UNICEF’s 60th...
Summary: This is a report of a field visit to Sudan carried out by Julia Gilkes (Early Childhood Consultant) and Rima Zaazaa (Educational Coordinator) in October 2002. The visit's main activity was an orientation workshop on the new ECD Manual (in...
Summary: World sanitation crisis causes millions of avoidable deaths, and contamination from human waste is largely to blame, says UNDP’s Human Development Report.[CAPE TOWN, 9 November 2006] - Simply installing a flush toilet in the home increases...
Le présent rapport a été établi en application des dispositions de la résolution 1612 (2005). Il s’agit du premier rapport de pays présenté au Conseil de sécurité et au Groupe de...
