Summary: A compilation of extracts featuring child-rights issues from the reports submitted to the first Universal Periodic Review. There are extracts from the 'National Report', the 'Compilation of UN Information' and the 'Summary of Stakeholder's...
The vast majority of children living with HIV around the world lack access to HIV testing and treatment. We can do something about that. The Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA), in collaboration with partners around the world, are embarking on a year...
[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....
[17 October 2007] - More and more States worldwide are reforming their laws to prohibit all corporal punishment of children, including in their homes. A new report by the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children analyses the...
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/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...
[16 de noviembre de 2006] 0 Este texto resume el documento titulado False starts: The exclusion of Romani children from primary education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia, con una extensión de 38.000 palabras, publicado por Amnistía...
Children do not come to school because they do not have clothes or a sandwich to bring to school.A teacher in Tuzla, Bosnia and HerzegovinaIt is too crowded to do any work at home.A Romani child attending the Macinec primary school in CroatiaRomani...
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...
