Commissioned with drafting the state report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child. It highlights steps undertaken by the government to implement the CRC.
[8 March 2007] - Across the world today, one in every five girls of primary school age are not in school. When girls miss out, not only are they denied the chance to learn to read and write, earn a living and participate in democracy, it...
[15 January 2007] – States who have signed on to the United Nations international bill of rights for women must continue to press for an end to gender-based violence, a senior UN official today told experts gathering in New York to evaluate...
[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...
[30 November 2006] – Some 90,000 orphans and vulnerable children in Namibia will be deprived of vital food supplies in the second half of December because of a critical shortage of funding, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)...
[JOHANNESBURG, 30 November 2006] - A funding shortfall faced by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) could force thousands of vulnerable Namibian children to go hungry in the coming weeks."It's an unjust and preventable tragedy...
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...
[26 octobre 2006] – Plus de 4,3 millions de personnes vont être confrontés à des pénuries alimentaires en Afrique australe parce que les pays riches n'ont pas tenu leurs promesses de dons, a déploré...
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...
