The Global Fund for Children makes grants to small community-based organisations around the world that help young people develop the knowledge and skills they need to become productive, caring members of our global society. Our grants support formal...
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is working globally to ensure the sexual and reproductive health, choices and rights of women, men and young people.IPPF is the world's largest voluntary organisation in the field of sexual and...
The Global Campaign for Education is a movement to end the worldwide crisis in education. Around the world today, 80 million children - most of them girls - are out of school. GCE's mission is to make sure that governments act now to deliver...
Global March Against Child Labour is an international movement dedicated to giving every child a chance to live and grow without the burden of exploitative work. Global March is a movement to mobilise worldwide efforts to protect and promote the...
Located in the Caribbean Sea, Jamaica occupies the third largest island in the Greater Antilles Group, south of Cuba and West of Haiti. Since gaining independence from Britain in 1962, Jamaica has maintained a parliamentary democracy led by a prime...
Summary: Jamaica’s Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), as part of a cooperative initiative with UNICEF-Jamaica, has developed a set of guidelines to ensure that risk management, especially disaster response in Jamaica...
Honduras joins the list of states achieving law reform to prohibit all corporal punishment; Jamaica removes judicial whipping from the statute book; Cyprus formally repeals the right to administer punishment from its law: these are just a...
Summary: All states must be urged to abolish deep-rooted prejudices against children who have disabilities and children abandoned by their parents, vigorously address reports of abuse, and ensure that all abandoned and orphaned children, whether...
Summary: This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of all UN Treaty Bodies and their follow-up procedures. This does not include the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child which are...
[26 July 2013] -
A cross-dressing teenager was allegedly “chopped and stabbed” to death by an angry mob in Jamaica earlier this week.
Dwayne Jones was attending a river party in St. James on July 21 when he was brutally murdered....
