Insight Innocenti
Birth Registration and Armed Conflict
( Print: January 2008
)
The present publication reviews the problem of non-registration in conflict-affected countries while drawing on case studies to analyze successful or promising initiatives to ensure registration. The...
The present publication reviews the problem of non-registration in conflict-affected countries while drawing on case studies to analyze successful or promising initiatives to ensure registration. The...
Caring for Children Affected by HIV and AIDS
( Print: January 2008
)
This Insight is intended to advance the discussion on the impact of HIV and AIDS on children in three key ways: by drawing attention to the situation of children orphaned by AIDS and the limitations...
This Insight is intended to advance the discussion on the impact of HIV and AIDS on children in three key ways: by drawing attention to the situation of children orphaned by AIDS and the limitations...
Children and Disability in Transition in CEE/CIS and Baltic States
( Print: June 2009
)
This Innocenti Insight looks at how children with disabilities and their families fare in the rapidly changing environment of this wide region, since transition in the early 1980’s. It builds upon the...
This Innocenti Insight looks at how children with disabilities and their families fare in the rapidly changing environment of this wide region, since transition in the early 1980’s. It builds upon the...
Children in Immigrant Families in Eight Affluent Countries
Their Family, National and International Context
There is a lack of systematic and validated evidence on the situation of children who have migrated with their parents. This gap is particularly striking for industrialized countries where data on...
There is a lack of systematic and validated evidence on the situation of children who have migrated with their parents. This gap is particularly striking for industrialized countries where data on...
Children in Institutions
The Beginning of the End?
There is a growing global consensus in favour of family-based alternatives to institutional care for children. No residential institution --no matter how well meaning-- can replace the family...
There is a growing global consensus in favour of family-based alternatives to institutional care for children. No residential institution --no matter how well meaning-- can replace the family...
Cities With Children
Child Friendly Cities in Italy
The present study describes the evolution of childhood in Italy and the emergence of a new culture of the city. It analyses the consideration given to the Child Friendly Cities initiative and in...
The present study describes the evolution of childhood in Italy and the emergence of a new culture of the city. It analyses the consideration given to the Child Friendly Cities initiative and in...
Evolving Capacities of the Child, The
( Print: August 2005
)
The Convention on the Rights of the Child introduced for the first time in an international human rights treaty, the concept of the ‘evolving capacities’ of the child. This principle recognizes that...
The Convention on the Rights of the Child introduced for the first time in an international human rights treaty, the concept of the ‘evolving capacities’ of the child. This principle recognizes that...
Family and Parenting Support
Policy and Provision in a Global Context
In keeping with the spirit of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, family and parenting support is increasingly recognized as an important part of national social policies and social investment...
In keeping with the spirit of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, family and parenting support is increasingly recognized as an important part of national social policies and social investment...
Laying the Foundations for Children's Rights
( Print: August 2005
)
This study provides a critical and constructive analysis of how far the international community and individual states have come in their efforts to establish the normative, legal, and institutional...
This study provides a critical and constructive analysis of how far the international community and individual states have come in their efforts to establish the normative, legal, and institutional...
Making Philippine Cities Child Friendly
Voices of Children in Poor Communities
The study analyses how the Philippines national Child Friendly Movement has enhanced the capacity of local governments, communities and young people to fulfil the rights of the poorest children. The...
The study analyses how the Philippines national Child Friendly Movement has enhanced the capacity of local governments, communities and young people to fulfil the rights of the poorest children. The...
Promoting Children's Participation in Democratic Decision-Making
( Print: May 2001
)
Listening to children and considering seriously what they have to say has not been a widely adopted practice throughout the world. Since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)...
Listening to children and considering seriously what they have to say has not been a widely adopted practice throughout the world. Since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)...
South Asia in Action
Preventing and Responding to Child Trafficking - Child Rights-based Programme Practices
The present study addresses programme practices that aim to combat child trafficking in South Asia. It presents three case studies of child rights-based initiatives, with a strong focus on prevention...
The present study addresses programme practices that aim to combat child trafficking in South Asia. It presents three case studies of child rights-based initiatives, with a strong focus on prevention...
South Asia in Action
Preventing and Responding to Child Trafficking - Analysis of Anti-trafficking Initiatives in the...
Addressing the human cost and practical challenges imposed by child trafficking in South Asia, governments in the region, along with partners, have in recent years undertaken a range of initiatives...
Addressing the human cost and practical challenges imposed by child trafficking in South Asia, governments in the region, along with partners, have in recent years undertaken a range of initiatives...
The Dynamics of Social Change Towards the Abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in five...
( Print: November 2010
)
This Innocenti Insight examines the social dynamics of the abandonment of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in five countries - Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal and the Sudan - and seeks to...
This Innocenti Insight examines the social dynamics of the abandonment of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in five countries - Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal and the Sudan - and seeks to...
Trafficking in Human Beings, Especially Women and Children, in Africa
( Print: November 2004
)
Trafficking in human beings is increasingly understood as a major and worldwide human rights violation and development issue. UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre new Insight Trafficking in Human Beings...
Trafficking in human beings is increasingly understood as a major and worldwide human rights violation and development issue. UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre new Insight Trafficking in Human Beings...
Two Faces of Education in Ethnic Conflict, The
Towards a Peacebuilding Education for Children
This publication challenges a widely-held assumption - that education is inevitably a force for good. While stressing the many stabilizing aspects of good quality education, the book shows how...
This publication challenges a widely-held assumption - that education is inevitably a force for good. While stressing the many stabilizing aspects of good quality education, the book shows how...