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The Struggle For Childhood

crinadmin — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 11:49:23 +0000

Summary: On 20 November 1989, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It restated the UN's commitment to the plight of children, while addressing the issues of street violence, sexual exploitation and drug abuse.

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From City Hall to the World's Stage

crinadmin — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 11:41:07 +0000

Summary: Carol Bellamy, executive director of UNICEF and a former New York City Council president, has become a celebrity among the world's poor.

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Africa: Meeting of the African Committee of Experts - a positive step to promote and protect the rights of the African child

crinadmin — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 11:31:52 +0000

Summary: Amnesty International commended the commitment shown by those African states that have ratified the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (the African Children's Charter).

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Second Anniversary Pushes Education Agenda

crinadmin — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 11:22:08 +0000

Summary: Two years after the world promised to provide free, quality education for all, Children, teachers, and activists in over 80 countries are back on the streets, in schools, and in front of government officials demanding the right to education.

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Commission on Human Rights Adopts Measures On The Situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory, Colombia, Children

crinadmin — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 11:18:55 +0000

Summary: The Commission on Human Rights this afternoon adopted a resolution on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, a Chairperson's Statement on the situation in
Colombia, and a resolution on the Rights of the Child at the last meeting of its fifty-eighth session.

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UN gambit: 'A little child shall lead them'

crinadmin — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 11:12:12 +0000

Summary: NEW YORK - Krista Riley turns and reaches for Akello Betty Openy's hand. The two teenage girls, one Canadian the other Ugandan, smile, then slip easily through the crowd outside an auditorium at the United Nations.

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UK Public Wants More Action from World Leaders to Beat Child Poverty

crinadmin — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 11:05:23 +0000

Summary: London, 29 April 2002 - A groundbreaking survey into public attitudes to child poverty, published today by MORI for Save the Children Week, reveals that the public have little faith in the ability of world leaders to tackle the problem, despite their promises.

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Tanzania: ILO Targets Both Women's Income and Child Labour

crinadmin — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 10:36:10 +0000

Summary: NAIROBI, 2 May 2002 (IRIN) - The International Labour Organisation (ILO), along with the government of Tanzania and Akiba Commercial Bank, has launched a project to help tackle the problem of child labour in the country by boosting women's income-earning potential.

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Child labour 'fuels commodity trade'

crinadmin — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 10:30:42 +0000

Summary: 6 May, 2002 -- A high proportion of globally-traded commodity crops such as cocoa, coffee and tea are produced by child workers, according to a new United Nations (UN) report.

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17.4 million children have to work in Latin America

crinadmin — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 10:24:57 +0000

Summary: May 7th, 2002 - Mortgaging their future in order to be able to survive today, some
17.4 million children in Latin America between the ages of 5 and 17 have to work in order to contribute to their family's economic survival. There are an estimated 180
million working children in the world - one in eight children on this planet.

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Children are European Citizens too - Children and the future of Europe

crinadmin — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 10:19:07 +0000

Summary: The European Children's Network, EURONET, has submitted to the members of the European Convention its proposal to include an article on children’s rights in the next EU Treaty.

The European Children's Network, EURONET, has submitted to the members of the European Convention its proposal to include an article on children’s rights in the next EU Treaty.

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Some Demand U.N. Address Church Abuse

crinadmin — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 10:09:48 +0000

Summary: NEW YORK (AP), 8 May, 2002 -- As the United Nations turns its attention to the plight of children, a maverick group of Roman Catholics is asking the international body to intervene in the priest sex abuse crisis.

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Annan Opens U.N. Children's Summit

crinadmin — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:29:54 +0000

Summary: UNITED NATIONS (AP), 8 May 2002 - Secretary-General Kofi Annan opened the first U.N. children's summit Wednesday with a stinging rebuke to "the grown-ups" of the world for failing "deplorably" to uphold the right of every child to grow up free of poverty and war and receive a quality education.

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Hundreds march for children's rights

crinadmin — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:17:27 +0000

Summary: NEW YORK, 8 May 2002 - Hundreds of children paraded through Manhattan today in a march for child rights, grabbing the attention and support of New Yorkers ahead of the United Nations Special Sessions on Children.

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Children of War in Sierra Leone Try to Start Over

crinadmin — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:09:00 +0000

Summary: FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, May 8 - He was 14 years old when the rebels seized the capital here, back in 1998, and forced him to join them. A boy with a precocious intensity and frigid self-assuredness, he rose quickly in the ranks and earned the fighting name Poison.

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