[NEW YORK, 22 March] Neglect in orphanages, juvenile justice, due process, law and order structures and violence against women and children persist in Liberia despite some progress, according to a United Nations human rights report on the country...
[8 March 2007] - Across the world today, one in every five girls of primary school age are not in school. When girls miss out, not only are they denied the chance to learn to read and write, earn a living and participate in democracy, it...
[12 February 2007] - As donors gather in Washington this week, Save the Children is calling on rich countries to live up to their rhetoric on Africa and back Liberia to rebuild its shattered health and education systems by wiping out $3.7 billion...
[19 January 2007] – The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) has called for an immediate internal investigation after receiving information about possible sexual exploitation by some of its staff, a UN spokesperson said today.“The...
[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...
[1 December 2006] – More than 80 youth representatives from 10 West African countries attending a United Nations-backed conference pledged today to help their peers throughout the region by taking steps to improve sexual and reproductive...
Summary: A survey of programmatic work on child soldiers in Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.pdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/coalition_west_af.pdf
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...
[MONROVIA] - Shortbread is her top seller, followed by corn bread. But this former child soldier also makes a mean cinnamon roll for any sweet tooth who can afford to splurge.A few years ago, Marthalyme Mandeh was one of thousands of children...