[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: El Portal de Juventud para América Latina y el Caribe ofrece acceso a veintinueve manuales en diversas temáticas juveniles. Entre los temas se encuentran: • Manual para la Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos Sexuales y Derechos...
Summary: This manual is a practical, hands-on guide to the procedures and substantive case law of the inter-American human rights system.The Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at the Yale Law School and the Center for...
Summary: The 2004 Annual Report contains chapters on the following: legal bases and activities of the Commission, petition and case system, human rights development in the region, follow-up of recommendations formulated by the Commission in the...
Summary: Studies carried out by Transparency International chapters in Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Georgia, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Sierra Leone and Zambia show the extent and forms of corruption in schools, universities and...
Summary: In this publication, Save the Children Norway, presents a summary of four studies on violence and sexual abuse against children, conducted in Nicaragua during the last two years (2004 and 2005). They were carried out within the context of...
Summary: This study hopes to build awareness among journalists, civic organisations, and governmental agencies about violence. Its purpose is also to document the relationship between the media and violence against children and adolescents.The...
Summary: The aim of the research project “Seeing
beyond Violence” was to learn from and with
the children, who all come with their life
stories of trauma and loss, how they perceive
the discourse and reality of violence and how
they understand...
