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...
[21 de marzo de 2007] - En este informe se explican detalladamente los actuales motivos de preocupación de Amnistía Internacional respecto a la discriminación, el racismo y la xenofobia contra los trabajadores migrantes haitianos y dominicanos de...
[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...
What is it like to live in poverty, struggling every day to stay healthy, keep out of debt, and get educated? Find out now in this challenging role playing game created by Global Kids and Gamelab, in which you take responsibility for a family of...
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: 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: Five years ago UN member states agreed to a landmark Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS to halt and reverse the epidemic by 2010. This week governments are reporting on the progress they have made. In a major new report the Panos Global...
Summary: Child Alert is a briefing series that presents the core challenges for children in a given crisis location at a given time. Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere and has the highest death rate of under-5-year-olds. A recent...
