[17 October 2007] - More and more States worldwide are reforming their laws to prohibit all corporal punishment of children, including in their homes. A new report by the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children analyses the...
Summary: Report submitted to the Third Committee of the 62nd Session of the UN General Assembly which will open on 18 September 2007.This year's Report of the Secretary-General on the Status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, is...
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...
[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...
[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: 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: On Monday 9 January, the Commitee examined Switzerland’s Initial Report on the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict. This summary highlights the main issues discussed by the government delegation and members of...
Summary: Looks at: UN Committee on the
Rights of the Child - observations on
the UK; principles and values of play
work; child-friendly lessons that UK
can learn from the Dutch.
Summary: Compiled by Joel Mermet.The bibliography is divided into general studies including:
education,health, social work, projects, drugs and human right;
followed by regional bibliographies on similar subjects from Africa,
North America, Latin...
