This is an inaugural international conference that aims to attract upwards of 300 Australasian participants including children and young people from a wide range of life experience, practice, professional and research backgrounds. Such a significant...
Summary: It is expected that delegates from about 15 countries will be present at the conference. Honouring the child, honouring equity conferences are attended by people who have diverse roles in children’s lives – researchers, teachers, carers,...
[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...
[BERLIN/FLORENCE, 14 February 2007] – The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre today releases the Report Card 7 which focuses on the well-being of children and young people in the world’s advanced economies and provides the first...
The course aims to increase knowledge of the issues surrounding disability in developing countries; to provide skills for designing, implementing and evaluating disability programs; and to introduce the concepts and means of mainstreaming disability...
Convention on the Rights of the Child Montenegro: 23 October 2006 (SUCCESSION)Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography Switzerland: 19 September 2006Lao People's...
[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...
The Council for the Care of Children is chaired by Dr Diana Hetzel and also comprises 9 other members appointed by the South Australian Governor, and also the Chief Executives of our Departments for Health, Education and Children's Services,...
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...
Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) is seeking urgent support in relation to the Australian Government’s recently released Draft Legislation on the Sterilisation of Children with Intellectual Disabilities. In August 2003, the...