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: El Portal de Juventud para América Latina y el Caribe ofrece acceso a veintinueve manuales en diversas temáticas juveniles. Entre los temas se encuentran: • Manual para la Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos Sexuales y Derechos...
En un nuevo informe publicado esta semana, Amnistía Internacional revela que los homicidios de mujeres en Guatemala han aumentado por cuarto año consecutivo desde 2001, mientras el gobierno no investiga eficazmente los casos y ni castiga a...
Guatemala is still failing to take action over the high number of murders of women and girls in the country, according to Amnesty International. The rights group said there has been little progress since June 2005, when it called on the authorities...
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...
El Estado guatemalteco ha presentado cuatro informes periódicos al Comité contra la Tortura, el último correspondiente al periodo 2000 – 2003, que fue entregado el 27 de mayo de 2005. La situación actual no es distinta, puesto que en...
A brutal civil war may have formally ended in 1996, but insecurity and violence characterise daily life in ‘post-conflict’ Guatemala. Repressive attempts to control the violence caused by youth gangs have failed. It is time the views of...
Young children's participation: Rhetoric or growing reality? raises the importance of providing participative environments to children in which they can express themselves readily, knowing they will be listened to. It presents an overview of current...
