[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...
[NEW YORK, 19 October 2006] – Human Rights Watch called on Iran to immediately revoke bans on students from attending university because they hold political beliefs not to the government’s liking, and to allow registered students to...
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...
[CAIRO, 23 September 2006] – The scheduled executions in Iran this week of two juvenile offenders – and their last-minute reprieve – highlight the country’s status as the world leader in juvenile executions, Human Rights...
[22 August 2006] - CIVICUS expresses concern about intimidating and threatening actions of the Iranian authorities that endanger the existence of civil society in the country. Although 2006 is the 30th anniversary of Iran’s ratification of the...
[TEHRAN, 24 August 2006] – The first edition of a children’s newspaper, written by and for children in Iran, hits the news stands today after a group of youngsters from Tehran attended a journalism workshop – supported by UNICEF -...
[New York, June 22, 2006] – Iran should immediately remove Tehran’s notoriously abusive prosecutor general from its delegation to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Human Rights Watch said today. The prosecutor general, Saeed...
Summary: Report on a regional workshop held in Broummana-Lebanon between 28th September 2005 and 1st December 2005.The report is also available in Arabic.Infomation about the workshopExecutive summary in English / ArabicOwner: Arab Resource...
Après la première exécution de mineur délinquant signalée en 2006, Amnesty International exprime son inquiétude profonde de voir l'Iran rester le seul pays à exécuter actuellement les mineurs d...
