Le crime, horrible, a bouleversé Haïti. Brillante étudiante de 20 ans, Farah Dessources a été torturée et assassinée par ses ravisseurs. Son corps mutilé a été retrouvé...
[20 December 2006] – The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti today expressed alarm at the sudden spate of kidnappings, especially of children, across the impoverished Caribbean country, and vowed to maintain its operations against the...
Arrêtez les kidnappings pour que les investissements reviennent en Haïti." Le rappeur Wyclef Jean s'époumone face à plus de 20 000 fans massés sur la plage de Jacmel, une jolie ville sur la côte sud d'Ha...
[14 December 2006] - A dozen schoolchildren in Haiti have been abducted by gunmen who hijacked a school bus and a car on Wednesday in broad daylight, local media report. One group of children was travelling to school on the private bus when the men...
[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...
Le Conseil des droits de l'homme a entamé ce matin les travaux de sa troisième session en entendant un message du Secrétaire Général et un rapport oral de la Haut-Commissaire aux droits de l'homme sur ses activit...
In her address to the Human Rights Council, on 29th November, Louise Arbour, High Commissioner for Human Rights, offered an overview of her recent missions to Haiti, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Germany and Canada.She mentioned...
What is it like to live in poverty, struggling every day to stay healthy, keep out of debt, and get educated? Find out now in this challenging role playing game created by Global Kids and Gamelab, in which you take responsibility for a family of...
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...
