Resources search

Violating children's rights : harmful practices based on tradition, culture, religion or superstition

INTERNATIONAL NGO COUNCIL ON VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN
October 2012

Expand view

"This short report is designed to complement other current activities in the UN system that are focusing on harmful practices and children and will hopefully lead to more effective action...The report first looks at the definition and scope of harmful traditional, cultural and religious practices violating children’s rights. Section 3 outlines the human rights context for their prohibition and elimination. Section 4 lists practices identified through a call for evidence issued by the International NGO Council earlier in 2012 and additional desk research. It also provides some examples of legal and other measures already taken to challenge and eliminate them. Section 5 provides recommendations for action by states, UN and UN-related agencies, INGOs, NGOs, national human rights institutions and others"
Briefing paper

Five years on : a global update on violence against children

COWELL, Katherine
BARKER, Jo
October 2011

Expand view

"This report summarizes the state of violence against children in the five years since the release of the UN Study. It is neither comprehensive nor exhaustive, but it is illustrative of the continued pervasiveness of violence in children’s lives"

Advocacy toolkit : campaign for a new optional protocol to the CRC establishing a communications procedure

NGO GROUP FOR THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD (CRC)
June 2010

Expand view

This advocacy toolkit has been prepared to support those who are interested in joining the campaign for a communications procedure under the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). It contains background information about the campaign, lists of campaigning and lobbying activities you could undertake at national level, questions and answers, a glossary and a feedback form

Child rights and the MDGs

CHILD RIGHTS INFORMATION NETWORK (CRIN)
October 2008

Expand view

This special edition looks at how the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) relate to child rights and what the limitations and criticisms are

Child rights : a guide to strategic litigation

GEARY, Patrick ( Thacher, Simpson & Bartlett)
May 2008

Expand view

This guide has been produced to help those working for children's rights to understand what strategic litigation is and consider this as an option for effecting change for children by using the law. It is aimed at legal and non-legal NGO staff and can be adapted to local settings and procedures

Newsletter of the Network for Towards Unity for Health [formerly: Newsletter of the Network for Community Partnerships for Health through Innovative Education, Service, and Research, and originally: Newsletter of the Network of Community-Oriented Educati

Expand view

Includes topics that are of interest to the organisation, which can be described as a global association of institutions for education of health professionals committed to contribute, through education, research and service, to the improvement and sustainment of health in the communities they serve
Twice a year
Free electronic
Print free for members, 10.00 USD for non-members

E-bulletin