[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...
[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...
Child Helpline International is charged with establishing and strengthening a world wide network of child helplines with the objective of having a child helpline in almost every country and representing the child helpline movement at the...
Summary: Press Statement by Ugen Lhazin, Female
Delegate from Bhutan from the Regional
Consultation with Children and Young People
on the UN Study on Violence Against Children,
South Asia, 19th-20th May 2005, Islamabad.
"Good afternoon. My...
Summary: This session was organised by UNICEF to
explain to children what their opportunities
will be in ifluencing the outcome of the
regional consulation.
Children and Young People’s Forum: Information session on opportunities
for children to...
Summary: Summary of the first day of the South Asia
Regional Consultation
South Asia Regional Consultation – Children’s Consultation
Day 1, 17 May 2005, Morning session
[17 May 2005, ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN] - The South Asia Consultation for
the...
ICCYS is a specialised unit for training, research and policy analysis which focuses on the needs of children and youth in developing, transitional and developed societies. It seeks to promote the holistic development of children and youth, and...
Summary: This document summarises how a selection of
development cooperation agencies, UN
Agencies and NGOs active in Asia define the
rights-based approach to development, why
they have adopted their policy and how they
have incorporated it...
