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...
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...
[NEW YORK, 20 December 2006] – Two years after the Indian Ocean tsunami killed more than 200,000 people and destroyed homes, schools and communities across a vast area, UNICEF is still working to rebuild children’s lives and provide a...
[HONG KONG, 21 December 2006] - The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has released its Human Rights Report for 2006. The State of Human Rights in Eleven Asian Nations includes in-depth analysis of the situation of human rights in ...
[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: Partners included: The Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Canada; Child Workers in Asia, Thailand; Asian Research Centre for Migration, Thailand; Psycho-social Trauma and Human Rights Programme, Philippines.Since the end of the...
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was adopted by the General Assembly in 1989, is the most comprehensive of all international human rights legal instruments. The civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights it...
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: Why cannabis matters - Children exploited by fishermen - Interview with UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria CostaPerspectives, the new UNODC magazine, aims to bring its readers closer to the people behind the broad issues of drugs, crime...
Drugs affect everyone everywhere, either directly or indirectly, and children are no exception. Some kids start using marijuana, amphetamines and inhalants at an early age to fit in or deal with stress. Harder drugs may follow. Other kids are paying...
