[SANAA, 28 December 2006] - Poverty, unemployment, illiteracy and a high population growth rate are the main factors preventing Yemen from observing children’s rights. Those are the findings published in a report by the Supreme Council for...
[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...
[SANAA, 21 September 2006]- Yemeni street children are deprived of play, pleasure and enjoying their childhood. Such children know nothing of childhood except their thin bodies and innocence; however, they act as men through their work and the...
[SANAA, 29 August 2006] Aged between 6 and 18, Street children can be categorized according to their type of work, the time of day they work and their living situation.Most children working or begging part of the day or night are enrolled in school...
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...
Thirty children, 20 of them already forced to work for a living, got a welcome respite from their difficult lives Sunday. At Al-Sabeen park, they gathered to play puzzle games that were part of a child-abuse awareness program. They were taught how...
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...
