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...
[BERLIN/FLORENCE, 14 February 2007] – The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre today releases the Report Card 7 which focuses on the well-being of children and young people in the world’s advanced economies and provides the first...
[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: 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...
Summary: This global report was launched during the week of the presentation of the UN Study on Violence Against Children in New York on 12 October. The report is part of a submission to the Violence Study.As the UN Secretary-General’s Study...
Summary: Children Sweden has published a brochure highlighting examples of how politicians have worked across national and party boundaries to strengthen children’s rights. pdf: http://se-web-01.rb.se/Shop/Archive/Documents/3280.pdf#search=%22cross%...
Summary: A discussion paper on the concept of the best interests of the child in a Nordic perspectiveThe Children’s Ombudsmen of Iceland, Norway and Sweden, and Börnerådet in Denmark, share the common aim of influencing and...
Summary: In the UK and in many other countries around the world, there is widespread debate around parenting and the use of physical punishment to discipline children. Sweden was the first country to ban physical punishment in 1979. This report...
Summary: Looks at: UN Committee on the
Rights of the Child - observations on
the UK; principles and values of play
work; child-friendly lessons that UK
can learn from the Dutch.
Summary: This guide has been designed to
promote awareness amongst police
officers of the different forms of
violence against women and
children, including trafficking.
Available from Council of Europe Publishing
67075 Strasbourg Cedex;
Fax...
