[NEW YORK, 20 December 2006] – Two years after the Indian Ocean tsunami killed more than 200,000 people and destroyed homes, schools and communities across a vast area, UNICEF is still working to rebuild children’s lives and provide a...
[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: This is a report of a field visit to Sudan carried out by Julia Gilkes (Early Childhood Consultant) and Rima Zaazaa (Educational Coordinator) in October 2002. The visit's main activity was an orientation workshop on the new ECD Manual (in...
Summary: African children are mostly happy and positive about their present and future but three out of ten prefer to live outside their country. Those happiest and least likely to leave are in countries which are stable, peaceful, child-friendly...
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...
30 October 2006 - CRIN Children and Armed Conflict 101Special Edition on Somalia ___________________________________________________________ - Background on the conflict in Somalia- International norms and standards on child rights and...
UN Convention on the Rights of the ChildSomalia is one of two States which have not yet ratified the Convention. The other is the United States of America. Somalia has not had a central government since 1991, when President Siad Barre...
The Human Rights Council this morning discussed the reports of the Independent Expert on the human rights situation in Somalia, Ghanim Alnajjar, and of the Personal Representative of the High Commissioner on the situation of human rights in Cuba,...
Summary: A review of the current situation in Somalia concerning children, with a special focus on health, security and political developments in the face of the recent droughts and unrest.The UNICEF Somalia Monthly Review is a monthly bulletin...
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...
