[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...
[HONG KONG, 21 December 2006] - The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has released its Human Rights Report for 2006. The State of Human Rights in Eleven Asian Nations includes in-depth analysis of the situation of human rights in ...
[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: Partners included: The Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Canada; Child Workers in Asia, Thailand; Asian Research Centre for Migration, Thailand; Psycho-social Trauma and Human Rights Programme, Philippines.Since the end of the...
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was adopted by the General Assembly in 1989, is the most comprehensive of all international human rights legal instruments. The civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights it...
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...
“Small also have something to say” is a Save the Children report on research into the effects of HIV/AIDS on children in six Asian countries: Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Lao, Myanmar and Thailand. This regional research, funded by the...
6 January 2005: CRINMAIL 641: Special Edition on South Asian Tsunamis: Contents: ********************************************************* NEWS -------------------------------------------------------------------- AID CONFERENCE: Kofi Annan Appeals...
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...
