[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...
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...
[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: 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...
On Wednesday 26th July, Save the Children Fiji launched its report The Physical and Emotional Punishment of Children in Fiji to begin a 3 year public awareness campaign to reduce the physical and emotional punishment of children in Fiji. The report...
Save the Children Sweden, regional office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, has recently submitted a report on physical and psychological punishment of children to the UN Study on Violence against Children: What children say: Results of...
Suva Workshop on the Implementation of the Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child in FijiBackground Fiji ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child on 13 August 1993. Its initial report to the UN...
Summary: The Pacific region held a sub-regional Consultation on Violence against Children in Fiji from 26 until 28 September 2005, that aimed at building on the outcomes of the Bangkok Consultation in June 2005, while discussing ways and priorities...
