[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: The Secretary General of the Council of Europe threatened to bring before the Committee of Ministers a story of homophobia. In June, Miroslaw Sielatycki, director of the permanent training centre on teaching (CODN), an institution of the...
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: This is a part-time two-year interdisciplinary and international programme on children's rights. The methodology used includes mandatory teaching modules and distance-learning methods. Each module of the Executive Master considers a...
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...
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: The seminar will enable the participants (youth
and young leaders) to gain knowledge in the
issue of social exclusion and and methods of
its prevention.
Association: Orsus Association
Summary: This guide has been designed to
promote awareness amongst police
officers of the different forms of
violence against women and
children, including trafficking.
Available from Council of Europe Publishing
67075 Strasbourg Cedex;
Fax...
ICCYS is a specialised unit for training, research and policy analysis which focuses on the needs of children and youth in developing, transitional and developed societies. It seeks to promote the holistic development of children and youth, and...