[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: Submission from Human Rights Watch to the Committee on the Rights of the Child[5 October 2007] - In this report, Human Rights Watch brought the Committee’s attention to information regarding the following violations of 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...
[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: 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 document summarises how a selection of
development cooperation agencies, UN
Agencies and NGOs active in Asia define the
rights-based approach to development, why
they have adopted their policy and how they
have incorporated it...
Summary: The September 2001 issue focuses on the
topic of child labour and working children,
including articles such as – “Child labour in
Asia: A review” and “Child labour and India’s
football-making industry”.
The FOCUS Asia-Pacific Newsletter...
Summary: The report examines three of the most
widespread and devastating factors
threatening childhood today: HIV/AIDS,
conflict, and poverty.
Owner: UNICEFpdf: www.unicef.org/sowc05/english/sowc05.pdf
