[DUSHANBE, 12 December 2006] - A new website for UNICEF in Tajikistan was launched today giving outsiders an insider’s view of the lives of children in this mountainous Central Asian country. Covering a range of issues and stories, the website...
[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: 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: First global study on cluster submunitions asualties: civilians account for 98 per cent of cluster munitions casualties.[GENEVA/BRUSSELS, 2 November 2006] – Civilians constitute 98 per cent of all recorded cluster submunitions...
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: The September 2001 issue focuses on the
topic of child labour and working children,
including articles such as – “Child labour in
Asia: A review” and “Child labour and India’s
football-making industry”.
The FOCUS Asia-Pacific Newsletter...
Summary: The report examines three of the most
widespread and devastating factors
threatening childhood today: HIV/AIDS,
conflict, and poverty.
Owner: UNICEFpdf: www.unicef.org/sowc05/english/sowc05.pdf
Summary: Child prostitutes may be virtually
invisible in the Central Asia republics,
but they are there if you look hard
enough. In a wide-ranging
investigation conducted in four of the
five countries, IWPR discovered that
teenage girls are...
Summary: This paper examines the social
protection needs of women workers
in this sector, and also argues for
public action to
promote such work as a possible
new labour-intensive growth
strategy in these and other
developing countries.
Summary: This paper draws on surveys carried
out in India, Pakistan, Indonesia,
Philippines, Thailand, where
production of manufactured goods is
subcontracted to home based
workers widely. It examines the
incidence of child work in such...
