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...
[4 May 2007] - The Senate Committee on Human Rights has released a report entitled "Children: The Silenced Citizens" condeming Canada's failure to fully implement the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), which...
Canada has been widely recognized internationally for its leading role in drafting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), and promoting the rights of children around the world. However, the reality is that Canada has fallen...
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: This report, which is a submission to the UN Study on Violence Against Children, describes promising practices experienced by North American civil society to protect children from media violence and supports UNICEF Canada statement (Chapter...
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...
Summary: This paper examines how international adoption fits within the legal and conceptual framework of Canadian policy and legislation and international treaties to which Canada is a party, i.e the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Owner...
Summary: This manual is a practical, hands-on guide to the procedures and substantive case law of the inter-American human rights system.The Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at the Yale Law School and the Center for...
