[13 December 2007] - Discrimination threatens lives in emergencies, and governments and aid agencies should pay more attention to the needs of vulnerable groups who suffer most in disasters, the Red Cross said in a report released on Thursday....
Este informe se ha preparado de conformidad con las disposiciones de la resolución 1612 (2005) del Consejo de Seguridad y se presenta al Consejo como segundo informe sobre los niños y los conflictos armados en Burundi. Abarca el período...
[NEW YORK, 7 December 2007] – Ms. Coomaraswamy, UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict has presented the reports of the Secretary General on the situation of Children and Armed Conflict in Burundi and Myanmar to the Security...
[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...
A large proportion of Burundi children must grow up in the absence of one or both birthparents. In all, nearly one-fifth (17 per cent) of children aged 0-14 years of age are orphans, one of the highest orphan rates in the Sub-Saharan Africa region....
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...
Au Burundi, les enfants en conflit avec la loi sont exposés à de graves exactions dans un système de justice pénale qui les traite comme des adultes, a déclaré Human Rights Watch dans un rapport publi...
Children in Burundi who find themselves in conflict with the law face serious abuses in a criminal justice system that treats them as adults, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.“Children are sometimes tortured to extract...
[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...
