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- Street Kids International
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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.
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- Teachers and Educational Quality: Monitoring Global Needs for 2015
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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
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- The Asian financial Crisis and Filipino Households: Impact on Women and Children (PDF)
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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
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- The minimum cost of a healthy diet [pdf]
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An understanding of the minimum cost of a healthy diet for children could help policy-makers determine how to achieve the best nutritional outcomes for children and families within their programmes.(Save the Children, June 2007)
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/docs/The_Minimum_Cost_of_a_Healthy_Diet_Final.pdf
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- The State of Asia-Pacific's Children 2008 [pdf]
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The State of Asia-Pacific's Children 2008 is a regional edition of UNICEF's The State of the World's Children 2008 report. Complementary to the global report, it examines child survival in Asia-Pacific and highlights the need to place child health at the heart of the region's development and human rights agenda. It also outlines programmes, policies and partnerships that can accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (UNICEF, May 2008).
http://www.unicef.org/publications/files/SOAPC_2008_080408.pdf
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- The State of Latin American and Caribbean Children 2008 [pdf]
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The State of Latin American and Caribbean Children 2008 is a regional edition of UNICEF's The State of the World's Children 2008 report. Complementary to the global report, it examines child survival in Latin America and the Caribbean and highlights the need to place child health at the heart of the region's development and human rights agenda. It also outlines programmes, policies and partnerships that can accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (UNICEF, May 2008).
http://www.unicef.org/publications/files/SOLAC_2008_EN_041408.pdf
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- The State of the World's Children 2002
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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/
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- The State of the World's Children 2004 (PDF)
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UNICEF. The State of the World's Children 2004 focuses on girls' education and its relationship to all other development goals and to the promise of Education For All. It presents a multi-layered case for investing in girls' education as a strategic way to ensure the rights of both boys and girls and to advance a country's development agenda. The web summary touches on general points of the main text and presents panel abstracts highlighting successful programmes. The complete report including supporting data and statistics can be accessed in PDF form or purchased from UNICEF.
http://www.unicef.org/sowc04/index.html
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- The State of the World's Children 2005: Childhood under threat [PDF]
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Despite the near universal embrace of standards for protecting childhood, a 2005 UNICEF report shows that more than half the world's children are suffering extreme deprivations from poverty, war and HIV/AIDS, conditions that are effectively denying children a childhood. The report stresses that the failure by governments to live up to the standards of the 1989's Convention on the Rights of the Child causes permanent damage to children and in turn blocks progress toward human rights and economic advancement. (UNICEF, 2005)
http://www.unicef.org/publications/files/SOWC_2005_(English).pdf
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- The State of the World's Children 2006: Excluded and Invisible [PDF]
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This 2006 report by UNICEF assesses the world's most vulnerable children, whose rights to a safe and healthy childhood are exceptionally difficult to protect. Millions of children are growing up beyond the reach of development campaigns and are often invisible in everything from public debate and legislation, to statistics and news stories. In the past, UNICEF has reported extensively on how poverty, HIV/AIDS and armed conflict are undermining childhood itself. These factors, as well as weak governance and discrimination, deprive children of protection from abuse and exploitation, and exclude them from school, healthcare and other essential services at alarming rates. The report outlines concrete actions that can be taken by governments, civil society, the private sector, donors and the media to help prevent these children from falling between the cracks. (UNICEF, 2006)
http://www.unicef.org/sowc06/pdfs/sowc06_fullreport.pdf
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- The State of the World's Children 2007:
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The State of the World's Children 2007: Women and Children - the Double Dividend of Gender Equity examines the discrimination and disempowerment women face throughout their lives and outlines what must be done to eliminate gender discrimination and empower women and girls. It looks at the status of women today, discusses how gender equality will move all the Millennium Development Goals forward, and shows how investment in women's rights will ultimately produce a double dividend: advancing the rights of both women and children. (UNICEF, 2006)
http://www.unicef.org/sowc07/report/full_report.php
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- The Uses of Children: A Study of Trafficking in Haitian Children [PDF]
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This study documents a series of insidious forms of child abuse affecting Haitian children in their own country and in the neighboring Dominican Republic. The overriding purpose of the study is to document evidence of trafficking within Haiti and across the border. We will present evidence encountered for systems, networks, and the actors involved in severe forms of trafficking. This study is based primarily on in-depth tape-recorded interviews with hundreds of Haitians and Dominicans on both sides of the border. Fieldwork was undertaken directly by the two co-authors of this report. By Glenn R. Smucker & Gerald F. Murray, December 2004, USAID/Haiti Mission, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADF061.pdf
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- UN Secretary General's Study on Violence Against Children
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This Study, rooted in children's human rights to protection from all forms of violence, aims to promote action to prevent and eliminate violence against children at international, regional, national and local levels. The Study is a UN-led collaboration, mandated by the General Assembly, to draw together existing research and relevant information about the forms, causes and impact of violence which affects children and young people (up to the age of 18 years). A major report will be published in 2006 and recommendations presented to the UN General Assembly.
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- UN supports bid to prevent smuggling of Afghan children
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UN News Service, 18 January - A United Nations spokesman in Kabul today announced the world body's support for a new drive to prevent smugglers from taking Afghan children to other countries where they are used for cheap labour. Manoel de Almeida e Silva said UN agencies, working with government officials and a number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), "have been working on a comprehensive set of essential measures aimed at curbing this illegal practice and raising awareness about the problem."
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=9472&Cr=Afghanistan&Cr1=
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- UNHCR guidelines on formal determination of the best interests of the child
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These guidelines recommend some principles that can be used to construct a framework for ensuring compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child in a formal best interests determination (BID). They are aimed at people working at the field level for the UNHCR or their operational partners partners. They may also be useful to states extending their domestic child protection mechanisms to displaced or stateless people. (UNHCR, May 2008)
http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/4566b16b2.pdf
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- Unicef - The State of Africa's Children
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The State of Africa's Children 2008 highlights the need to position child survival at the heart of Africa's development and human rights agenda.
http://www.unicef.org/wcaro/soac08/report/report.php
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- UNICEF Publications
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UNICEF's publications play a critical role in fulfilling the organization's mandate to advocate for the rights and well-being of every child, everywhere. UNICEF's publications are vital for: Advocating with governments, the media, the public and civil society; Sharing knowledge about the situation of children and the most effective means of fulfilling their rights; Mobilizing material resources. Many of the publications held here are available to read online (PDF, HTML) or you can order the hardcopies.
http://www.unicef.org/infores/publications.htm
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- UNICEF: State of the World's Children Report 2005 [PDF - 6.5MB]
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The UNICEF "State of the World's Children Report 2005 provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the World's Children. As Kofi Annan writes in the forward to the document "The State of the World's Children 2005 makes clear, for nearly half of the two billion children in the real world, childhood is starkly and brutally different from the ideal we all aspire to. Poverty denies children their dignity, endangers their lives and limits their potential. Conflict and violence rob them of a secure family life, betray their trust and their hope. HIV/AIDS kills their parents, their teachers, their doctors and nurses. It also kills them."
http://www.unicef.org/sowc05/english/sowc05.pdf
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- What future? Street children in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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The 72-page report documents how security officials and other adults routinely abuse the Congo's street children. As elections approach, street children are as many times before, likely to be blamed for the country's troubles, and tens of thousands of street children are at risk of political manipulation and physical harm. In the past 10 years, armed conflict, HIV/AIDS, prohibitive education fees, and accusations of sorcery have led to a doubling of the number of street children. With no secure access to shelter, food or other basic needs, these children live in insecurity and fear. Instead of providing street children with protection, police and soldiers routinely use physical violence and threats of arrest to steal from these children. Street children also face physical and sexual abuse at the hands of adults and older youth, who take advantage of their vulnerable status. As a first step, the Congolese government must protect street children during the election period. U.N. agencies in Congo should redouble their efforts to prevent abuse. (Tony Tate, Human Rights Watch, April 2006)
http://hrw.org/reports/2006/drc0406/
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- World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation
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Developing countries which invest in better education, healthcare, and job training for their record numbers of young people between the ages of 12 and 24 years of age, could produce surging economic growth and sharply reduced poverty. With 1.3 billion young people now living in the developing world-the largest-ever youth group in history-the report says there has never been a better time to invest in youth because they are healthier and better educated than previous generations, and they will join the workforce with fewer dependents because of changing demographics. (World Bank, 16 September 2006)
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- Youth in crisis: Coming of age in the 21st century
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Across the globe, a generation of youth is rapidly reaching adulthood bearing the tragic consequences of their nations' worst problems. In this 'Youth in Crisis' In-Depth, IRIN traces the impact of the events shaping their lives, from the illegal forced marriage of teenage girls in Afghanistan and Ethiopia, to the tripling of school fees and the deteriorating education system in Zimbabwe (IRIN, February 2007).
http://www.irinnews.org/pdf/in-depth/Youth-in-crisis-IRIN-In-Depth.pdf
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