[7 February 2008] - On 24 January 2008, the Arab Charter on Human Rights entered into force. According to the United Nations human rights chief, it contains provisions that do not meet international norms and standards, including the...
[5 February 2008] - The World Bank has said the quality of education in the Arab world is falling behind other regions and needs urgent reform if it is to tackle unemployment. In a report, bank officials said Arab states had to make improving...
The Interagency Working Group on Children's Participation in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, consisting of ECPAT International, Knowing Children, Plan International, Save the Children Sweden and UK, UNICEF EAPRO and World Vision Asia Pacific has...
[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....
[12 November 2007] - Throughout the first half of this year, Israeli military operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip continued to violate the most basic rights of Palestinian children, including their right to life, according to NGO Defence for...
[25 October 2007] - A child's first right is the right to life. This is being denied in Afghanistan on an ever-increasing scale.In a war among the people, children may be more in the line of fire than any group except the fighters themselves, and...
[BEIRUT, 22 October 2007] - The Lebanese government must take concrete steps to end all forms of discrimination against Palestinian refugees and to fully protect and uphold their human rights, Amnesty International said in a new report.The new...
[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...
[10 September 2007] - Palestinian children comprise over 50 per cent of the population of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Approximately 60 per cent of children who are arrested in the West Bank and...
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...
