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Innocenti Social Monitor 2004

UNICEF, 13 October 2004. The Innocenti Social Monitor highlights the gaps between rich and poor within the 27 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States , as well as between the more prosperous countries of Central Europe and the poorer countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia. It examines how unemployment affects children: in some countries, including Bulgaria and Poland, large numbers of children are growing up in families where neither parent is employed.

http://www.unicef-icdc.org/cgi-bin/unicef/presscentre/presskit_down.sql?IDEvent=39

(Added: Fri Oct 15 2004   Modified: Mon Aug 22 2005   Hits: 231)

International criminal accountability and children's rights

This brief examines how a child rights approach has been gradually inserted into the practice of international tribunals. Child victims should be entitled to no less justice than adults. However, to testify on war crimes and be questioned in courtrooms may add to-not relieve-children's trauma. Children can both suffer from and commit atrocity crimes. The book discusses the dilemma of child soldiers, who could be perpetrators of war crimes but are also victims of forceful recruitment, which is in itself a war crime. It demonstrates the growing child-protection culture at the UN and the cooperation among its agencies in combating the recruitment of child soldiers. (United Nations University, 2006)

http://www.choike.org/documentos/children_rights.pdf

(Added: Wed Nov 29 2006   Hits: 144)

Keeping Children Safe - a toolkit for child protection.

Plan has collaborated with the NSPCC and a coalition of international agencies including Save the Children, Oxfam, World Vision, Tearfund, Everychild, Terre des Hommes and People in Aid to launch this toolkit, which helps international agencies reach global standards in child protection, using the NSPCC's child protection training knowledge. The toolkit helps international agencies reach global standards in child protection, using the NSPCC's child protection training knowledge. The aim is to help staff recognise and respond appropriately to signs of child abuse.

http://www.keepingchildrensafe.org.uk/

(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006   Hits: 330)

Kid-Friendly Countries

A quality-of-life survey of children around the world. A good indicator of a country's quality-of-life is the way it treats its most vulnerable members. Kids are a good measure of how well government policies percolate to the most sensitive and defenseless segment of society. Children are more vulnerable than adults to hazards of any form due to their size, physiology and behavior. Children under age five breathe more air, drink more water and eat more food per unit of body weight than adults, so they experience a greater risk from pathogens and pollutants. The well-being of a child is also a good indicator of the well-being of the parents.

http://www.populationconnection.org/kidfriendlycountries/index.htm

(Added: Tue Sep 02 2003   Modified: Mon Aug 22 2005   Hits: 281)

Kids With Cameras

Kids with Cameras is a non-profit organization that teaches the art of photography to marginalized children in communities around the world. We use photography to capture the imaginations of children, to empower them, building confidence, self-esteem and hope. We share their vision and voices with the world through exhibitions, books, websites and film. We are committed to furthering their general education beyond photography either by linking with local organizations to provide scholarships or by developing our own schools with a focus on leadership and the arts.

http://kids-with-cameras.org/

(Added: Tue Apr 26 2005   Hits: 257)

Mainstreaming child rights in the UN system: what will it take for NGO child rights coalitions? (pdf)

The survey was conducted to develop the NGO Group's understanding of what its traditional partners and stakeholders for children rights - NGOs and child rights coalitions - would need in order to mainstream children's rights into the UN treaty body system. The results indicated that mainstreaming in the manner described is not the accustomed practice of NGOs/coalitions and involvement in other treaty bodies will require a considerable outlay of resources both on their part and by the NGO Group. The survey also revealed that references to children in the human rights conventions guarantees some attention to children's issues in their considerations and concluding observations. Yet questions remain as to whether the level of debate and recommendations by these treaty bodies for these conventions are to the satisfaction of the child rights community. (D. Allen, NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 2005)

http://www.crin.org/docs/NGO_Group_Mainstreaming.pdf

(Added: Thu May 18 2006   Hits: 138)

MOZAMBIQUE: Destination unknown for trafficked children

A truck packed with 40 children was intercepted in central Mozambique raising concern over increased child trafficking and the urgent need for effective legislation. (IRIN, 1 February 2008)

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=76528

(Added: Mon Feb 04 2008   Hits: 66)

New Video, Photo Essay Tell Story of Uganda's Child "Night Commuters"

Human Rights Watch, August 22, 2005. Human Rights Watch has documented the plight of Uganda's lost generation of children in a new video, "Night Commuters: Uganda's Forgotten Children of War." A powerful photo essay by Bruno Stevens accompanies the video. The video, narrated by Dennis Haysbert, spotlights the phenomenon of tens of thousands of children in northern Uganda who walk miles every day to avoid abduction by rebel troops. The video shows the children embarking from their villages on long journeys in search of a safe place to sleep in urban areas.

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/08/21/uganda11647.htm

(Added: Tue Sep 13 2005   Hits: 142)

New Zealand child wellbeing ailing: International Save the Children report

Save the Children released its eighth annual Mothers' Index that ranks the best - and worst - places to be a mother and a child. The report compares the wellbeing of mothers and children in 140 countries (Save the Children, 8 May 2007).

http://www.savethechildren.org.nz/new_zealand/news/2007-05-08.html

(Added: Wed May 30 2007   Hits: 127)

NGOs work to clear their name after child trafficking in Chad-Sudan

Aid agencies and authorities in eastern Chad are urging local people not to lose confidence in the international humanitarian community after members of a French association claiming to rescue Sudanese orphans from the war in Darfur were charged with fraud and the abduction of minors.

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=75064

(Added: Thu Nov 08 2007   Hits: 70)

Optimism and poverty in Africa: adaption or a means to survival?

Recent research finds that higher levels of optimism and happiness are associated with other positive traits and behaviors, such as productivity in the labor market, better health, and support for democracy and markets. We compare these findings to new survey data for Africa, in an attempt to understand these relationships in conditions of extreme adversity (Carol Graham and Matthew Hoover, November 2007)

http://www.afrobarometer.org/papers/AfropaperNo76.pdf

(Added: Wed Dec 12 2007   Hits: 111)

Orphans and other vulnerable children toolkit

This is a collection of information, tools and guidance on supporting orphans and other vulnerable children living in a world with HIV/AIDS. It covers a wide range of subject areas, listed across the top of this page.

http://www.ovcsupport.net/sw505.asp

(Added: Thu Feb 09 2006   Modified: Fri Feb 10 2006   Hits: 245)

Our Climate, Our Children, Our Responsibility [pdf]

Millions of the world's poorest children are among the principal victims of climate change caused by the rich developed world. This report draws attention to the impacts of climate change upon children. It strongly argues that both mitigation and adaptation are necessary as highlighted by the Stern Review, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the most recent Human Development Report. There is increasing global consensus on the way forward, including the need for international collective action (UNICEF, 2 April 2008).

http://www.unicef.org.uk/campaigns/publications/pdf/climate-change.pdf

(Added: Tue May 06 2008   Hits: 59)

Paying the Price. Why rich countries must invest now in a war on poverty (PDF 1,378 KB)

Oxfam International, 6 December 2004. A new report from international agency Oxfam today reveals that 45 million more children will die needlessly by 2015, because rich countries are failing to provide the necessary resources they promised to overcome poverty. The report, Paying the Price, finds that rich countries' aid budgets are half what they were in 1960 and poor countries are paying back a staggering $100 million a day in debt repayments. Oxfam also calculates that 97 million more children will be out of school by 2015 unless urgent action is taken.

http://www.oxfam.org/eng/pdfs/pp041206_MDG.pdf

(Added: Tue Dec 14 2004   Modified: Mon Sep 12 2005   Hits: 447)

Presentation of Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network to the 6th Session of United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Jiten Yumnam, from the Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Newtwork, discusses the impacts of militarization and prevailing impunity on Asian indigenous youth (Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network,United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, May 2007).

http://www.apiyn.org/statement06.html

(Added: Thu Jun 07 2007   Hits: 73)

Progress for Children: A Child Survival Report Card

UNICEF. This report addresses the fourth Millennium Development Goal which aims for a two-thirds reduction of under-five mortality rates between 1990 and 2015. It reveals global gains in child survival since 1990, but also significant discrepancies within and across countries and regions. Progress For Children will be a critical tool - a report card to measure progress in the lead up to 2015 - in the fight to save millions of children's lives and ensure their healthy future.

http://www.unicef.org/progressforchildren/2004v1/

(Added: Mon Oct 11 2004   Modified: Mon Aug 28 2006   Hits: 209)

Progress for Children: A World Fit for Children Statistical Review

Progress for Children: A World Fit for Children Statistical Review reports on how well the world is doing in meeting its commitments for the world's children. This UNICEF special edition analyses progress towards the Millennium Development Goals in four priority areas for children: promoting healthy lives, providing a quality education, combating HIV and AIDS, and protecting against abuse, exploitation and violence (UNICEF, December 2007).

http://www.unicef.org/progressforchildren/2007n6/files/Progress_for_Children_-_No._6.pdf

(Added: Tue Dec 11 2007   Hits: 62)

Raising Voices publications

Raising Voices publishes program tools and articles about violence against women and children and other relevant human rights issues.

http://www.raisingvoices.org/publications.php

(Added: Tue Jan 10 2006   Hits: 297)

Rwanda: The Impacts of Women Legislators on Policy Outcomes Affecting Children and Families

This paper provides a brief background on changing gender roles in Rwanda and in women's parliamentary representation, and highlights several of the factors that led to the election of women in such large numbers in 2003 (UNICEF, December 2006).

http://www.unicef.org/sowc07/docs/powley.pdf

(Added: Fri Sep 28 2007   Hits: 85)

SOS-Kinderdorf International

SOS-Kinderdorf International, the umbrella organisation to which all national SOS Children's Village associations are affiliated. SOS Children's Villages revolve around the effort to give children who have lost their parents or who are no longer able to live with them a permanent home and a stable environment. Over the decades, SOS-Kinderdorf International has grown into a network of well over one hundred associations, and is today active worldwide.

http://www.sos-childrensvillages.org

(Added: Mon Apr 19 2004   Modified: Mon Aug 28 2006   Hits: 187)

State of the World's Mothers 2005

Across the globe, 58 million girls are not attending school. Save the Children's State of the World's Mothers 2005 examines the ways investing in girls' education can benefit present and future generations of children, and society as a whole. It points to effective, affordable programs and policies that are working, even in the world's poorest countries. Other highlights of the report include: Looking back 10 years at gains in girls' education in 71 developing countries (Girls' Education Progress Report), the report finds that countries have a mixed record when it comes to progress in girls' education. Looking 10 years forward (Forecasts for Children), the report identifies 11 developing countries that are "most likely to succeed" in improving children's quality of life in the next decade in three important areas of global development: achieving smaller, healthier families; educating all children; and reaching the Millennium Development Goal targets. The sixth annual Mothers' Index ranks the best and worst countries to be a mother, based on a review of 10 indicators of women's and children's well-being among 110 countries, including the United States.

http://www.savethechildren.org/mothers/report_2005/

(Added: Tue May 17 2005   Modified: Fri Oct 14 2005   Hits: 296)

Street Kids International

Street Kids International (SKI), an international charity based in Canada, is a global leader in enhancing the impact and capacity of local organizations providing direct service to street youth.

http://www.streetkids.org/

(Added: Thu Apr 01 2004   Modified: Mon Aug 28 2006   Hits: 295)

Teachers and Educational Quality: Monitoring Global Needs for 2015

This report provides global and regional assessments on the state of teachers and education quality. By highlighting trends in teacher quantity and quality, it explores the policy implications of bridging the gap between the two, especially in developing countries. It also compares the strengths and shortcomings of recruitment and deployment policies as well as working conditions around the world. Countries across the world will need to recruit more than 18 million teachers over the next decade. The greatest challenge lies in sub-Saharan Africa, which will need to expand its teaching force by 68% over this period. By 2015, countries like Chad will need almost four times as many primary teachers, from 16,000 to 61,000, while Ethiopia must double its stock to achieve universal primary education. (UNESCO INstitute of Statistics, April 2006)

http://www.uis.unesco.org/ev_en.php?ID=6509_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC

(Added: Tue May 02 2006   Hits: 77)

The Asian financial Crisis and Filipino Households: Impact on Women and Children (PDF)

By Jenina Joy Chavez, Focus on the Global South and Save the Children (UK). The study focuses on Children and Women who bear the brunt of macro-economic crisis such as that in 1997. This study was conducted from March 1999 to March 2000.

http://www.focusweb.org/publications/Books/Women_and_children.htm

(Added: Fri Dec 19 2003   Modified: Tue Oct 11 2005   Hits: 247)

The State of the World's Children 2002

The State of the World's Children 2002 presents models of leadership from individuals, agencies, organizations and alliances that have improved the lives of children and families. The report spotlights the 'Say Yes for Children' campaign and the UN Special Session on Children.

http://www.unicef.org/pubsgen/sowc02/

(Added: Mon Oct 21 2002   Modified: Tue Oct 11 2005   Hits: 162)

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