In Arabic[3 April 2008] – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the entry into force of the first international treaty on the human rights of persons with disabilities, after the required twentieth country ratified the landmark...
Press release from The First Children's Embassy in the World:Yesterday, 18 March 2008, in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, police officers arrested a group of 11 years old minors, and brought them in for informational conversations. The group of 11...
[13 December 2007] - Discrimination threatens lives in emergencies, and governments and aid agencies should pay more attention to the needs of vulnerable groups who suffer most in disasters, the Red Cross said in a report released on Thursday....
I wanted to go to school but we needed to pay for food, for clothes. My mother did not have any education. My father died when he was very young. So I needed to take care of myself and there was no money for school. Silvana, a Romani woman talking...
[10 December 2007] - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) will turn 60 on 10 December 2008. Human Rights Day 2007 will launch a year-long UN system-wide advocacy campaign to mark this important milestone. The theme of the campaign, which...
Quería ir a la escuela, pero necesitábamos dinero para comprar comida y ropa. Mi madre no había recibido ninguna educación. Mi padre murió cuando yo era muy pequeña. Así que tenía que cuidar de mí misma y no había dinero para ir a la escuela...
[20 November 2007] - The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is 18-years-old today. The symbolism of the anniversary has not been missed on NGOs and child rights advocates, who have highlighted the importance of the treaty on the day it...
The General Assembly,Recalling the Convention on the Rights of the Child,Recalling also the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children and the Plan of Action for Implementing the World Declaration on the Survival,...
La Conferencia General de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo:Convocada en Ginebra por el Consejo de Administración de la Oficina Internacional del Trabajo, y congregada en dicha ciudad el 1 de junio de 1999, en su octogésima sé...
The General Conference of the International Labour Organization,Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its 87th Session on 1 June 1999, andHaving adopted the Worst Forms of Child...
