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...
El día 20 de octubre de 2006, una ONG jamaicana, Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ), presentó un informe sobre la situación de niños que viven en casas hogar ante la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) en Washington, D.C.El...
On 20 October 2006, a report about issues facing children in the care of the Jamaican state in Children’s Homes was presented to the Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in Washington, D.C. by Dr. Carolyn Gomes,...
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: This manual is a practical, hands-on guide to the procedures and substantive case law of the inter-American human rights system.The Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at the Yale Law School and the Center for...
Summary: The 2004 Annual Report contains chapters on the following: legal bases and activities of the Commission, petition and case system, human rights development in the region, follow-up of recommendations formulated by the Commission in the...
In a new report published last week, Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in Jamaica: "Just a Little Sex", Amnesty International urges the Jamaican authorities to prioritise the implementation of a 15-point Action Plan...
Each year thousands of women and girls in Jamaica are sexually assaulted in their communities, their schools, their workplaces, their homes and in the street. The state is failing to effectively prevent and investigate these abuses and also to...
Dans un nouveau rapport rendu public ce jeudi 22 juin, Amnesty International demande instamment aux autorités jamaïcaines d’accorder la priorité à la mise en application du plan d’action en 15 points, é...
Child Helpline International is charged with establishing and strengthening a world wide network of child helplines with the objective of having a child helpline in almost every country and representing the child helpline movement at the...
