[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...
As the unlawful detentions of ‘enemy combatants’ at the US detention centre at the Guantánamo Bay naval base, Cuba, enter their fifth year, Amnesty International is renewing its call for the detention centre to be closed and for all...
[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: The forum for North Africa and the Middle East wasattended by delegates from 10 countries in the region. It addressed selected themes affecting street children in the region through group and plenary discussions, namely: street children’s...
Summary: The report provides an overview of the extent of the use of physical and humiliating punishment against children in Yemen. It aims to explore the extent of the problem and to highlight some of the dimensions and underlying causes in order...
Summary: The report provides an overview of the extent of the use of physical and humiliating punishment against children in Yemen. It aims to explore the extent of the problem and to highlight some of the dimensions and underlying causes in order...
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...
