Summary: A compilation of extracts featuring child-rights issues from the reports submitted to the first Universal Periodic Review. There are extracts from the 'National Report', the 'Compilation of UN Information' and the 'Summary of Stakeholder's...
[25 October 2010] - The enormous economic and social cost of violence in schools across the world has been revealed for the first time in a new report.
Based on research commissioned by Plan, the report found that the total cost of school...
The vast majority of children living with HIV around the world lack access to HIV testing and treatment. We can do something about that. The Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA), in collaboration with partners around the world, are embarking on a year...
Summary: This research questioned to what extent child labour in the sugar cane sector in Bolivia can be categorised as a worst form of child labour, and explored various existing interventions that have taken place to eradicate children’s work from...
Summary: IREWOC conducted a research project in two Andean counties, Bolivia and Peru, in 2008. In each country, child labour on small family farms was compared with child labour on commercial plantations. The research has produced knowledge on...
Summary: Uma análise do marco legal de 14 países latino-americanos, sob a perspectiva da promoção e proteção.Este paper elaborado pela ANDI e Rede ANDI América Latina com o apoio da Save The Children Suécia traz um mapeamento in...
This report presents the main findings from 3 country reports: Guatemala, Bolivia and Peru. Research indicates that most NGOs work with children who perform light activities, only a few hours a day, and actually tolerated under ILO convention 182....
[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....
[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...
BACGROUND TO THE PROJECT1. OBJECTIVES AND EXPECTED RESULTSCIDA's Action Plan on Child Protection, launched in June 2001, included a CAN$ 2 million research fund established to explore the area of child protection. The Fund's primary objective was to...
