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...
Save the Children's mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
An island nation in the South Pacific, Vanuatu covers a volcanic archipelago. Originally part of a joint French and British administered set of islands, Vanuatu achieved independence during a short armed confrontation in 1980 and is now governed by...
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The 18th Session of the Universal Periodic Review will take place from 27 January to 7 February 2014. Below is a list of the countries to be reviewed during the session.
Afghanistan: UPR / Wiki
Cambodia: UPR /...
Summary: Information about institutions in Vanuatu that monitor children's rights. Children's Ombudsperson
The Ombudsman Act of 1999 (http://www.paclii.org/vu/legis/consol_act/oa114/) established the Office of the Ombudsman. The Ombudsman is...
Summary: General overview of Vanuatu's national legal provisions on children's rights including guidance on how to conduct further research. National laws on children's rights
Status of the CRC in national law
The Convention on the Rights of the...
Summary: This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of the UN Special Procedures. This does not include reports of child specific Special Procedures, such as the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child...
Summary: Report on life imprisonment sentences for children in the Commonwealth States.In 2010 CRIN, together with other partners, launched a campaign for the prohibition of inhuman sentencing of children- defined to include sentences of death, life...
To educate the public, the bar (lawyers), and the judiciary (judges) about the harm caused by all forms of childhood genital cutting, including female genital cutting (also known as female genital mutilation or FGM), male genital cutting (also known...
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...
