This report examines some of the most pressing issues facing the humanitarian system and identifies how they are affecting the nature of humanitarian emergencies.
Earthquakes. Floods. War. Disasters and emergencies are rarely out of the headlines...
The Essex Human Rights Review has released its December 2010 edition, Realising Children's Rights: Multidisciplinary, Comparative and Practical Perspectives, consisting of the following four thematic sections:
Part I: Realising...
Summary: La principale information de ce numéro: Les organisations The African Child Policy Forum, the GlobalInitiative to End All Corporal Punishment et Save the Children Sweden ont fait paraitre une nouvellepublication intitulée All Africa Report...
The third African newsletter of the Global Initiative and The African Child Policy Forum is now available, in English and French. It features information on a new All-Africa progress report published by the ACPF, the Global Initiative and Save the...
Children, like all human beings, have a right to respect for their human dignity and this means protection from all forms of violence, including corporal punishment. This new report – Ending legalised violence against children: All Africa...
Summary: This guide addresses the recommendations of the 2006 UN World Report on Violence against Children that calls for the elimination of all corporal punishment of children and the promotion of positive discipline. It dismisses the common belief...
Summary: This is toolkit is for activities leading up to the UN meeting in December 2010 to discuss the draft Optional Protocol. This toolkit also contains a commentary on the draft and an explanation about collective complaints.
Download the NGO...
Summary: This guide, produced jointly by UNICEF and Religions for Peace, aims to help religious communities harness their spiritual, moral and social strengths to prevent, respond to and eliminate violence against children, by outlining practical...
Summary: This is the first draft of the Communications Procedure that will be discussed during the next session of the Open Ended Working Group in December 2010. The draft was prepared by the Chairperson-Rapporteur.
See also the NGO Comment on the...
Summary: Sentencing children to death, to life imprisonment and to corporal punishment has been consistently denounced by UN Treaty Bodies and Special Procedures and by regional human rights mechanisms as a violation of human rights. The UN Study on...
