[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...
Political violence has sharply escalated recently in Lebanon. A prominent parliamentarian, Antoine Ghanem, and at least six others were killed on 19 September 2007 in a car bomb attack in a series of political assassinations in Beirut for which no...
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...
[BEIRUT, 29 August 2007] - A new 128-page report, Civilians Under Assault: Hezbollah's rocket attacks on Israel in the 2006 war, criticises Hezbollah for its conduct during the 2006 war with Israel, in particular for its ...
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...
The present report outlines a wide range of activities and programmes launched by the international community that give concrete follow-up to the Commission of Inquiry’s recommendations. It also highlights the importance of integrating human...
[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: The forum for North Africa and the Middle East wasattended by delegates from 10 countries in the region. It addressed selected themes affecting street children in the region through group and plenary discussions, namely: street children’s...
Summary: The report points out the inner discrepancies of the Lebanese legal system in dealing with corporal punishment. It also assesses the role of public administration in implementing a ban on corporal punishment. The paper analyses the current...
Summary: This report on Lebanon forms part of a general report of child abuse and child mistreatment in the MENA region. The main objective of this report is to demonstrate School Child, as background information. Its main purpose, therefore, is to...
