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Poverty and Exclusion among Urban Children

Series: Innocenti Digest
( Print: March 2003 )

This report addresses the reality of millions of poor children living in urban cities worldwide. It highlights the chronic poverty and marginalisation they face, many of them living in conditions of...

This report addresses the reality of millions of poor children living in urban cities worldwide. It highlights the chronic poverty and marginalisation they face, many of them living in conditions of...


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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and Its Optional Protocol...

Handbook for Parliamentarians

Series: Handbook for Parliamentarians
( Print: November 2003 )

This Handbook for Parliamentarians contains the full text of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol. It also provides information on...

This Handbook for Parliamentarians contains the full text of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol. It also provides information on...


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Ensuring the Rights of Indigenous Children

Series: Innocenti Digest
( Print: April 2004 )

This report presents and evaluates the most effective ways to promote the rights of indigenous children taking into consideration their unique and rich cultural heritage. It pays particular attention...

This report presents and evaluates the most effective ways to promote the rights of indigenous children taking into consideration their unique and rich cultural heritage. It pays particular attention...


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Asegurar los Derechos de los Niños Indígenas

Series: Innocenti Digest
( Print: April 2004 )

En todo el mundo, tanto en las áreas rurales como en las urbanas, los niños indígenas a menudo constituyen uno de los grupos más desventajados y sus derechos (el derecho a la sobrevivencia y al...

En todo el mundo, tanto en las áreas rurales como en las urbanas, los niños indígenas a menudo constituyen uno de los grupos más desventajados y sus derechos (el derecho a la sobrevivencia y al...


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Garantir les Droits des Enfants Autochtones

Series: Innocenti Digest
( Print: April 2004 )

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Birth Registration

Right from the Start

Series: Innocenti Digest
( Print: June 2009 )

This Digest looks at birth registration, a fundamental human right that opens the door to other rights, including education and health care, participation and protection. It explains why the births of...

This Digest looks at birth registration, a fundamental human right that opens the door to other rights, including education and health care, participation and protection. It explains why the births of...


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Combatting Trafficking in Persons

A Handbook for Parliamentarians - CD-ROM

Series: Handbook for Parliamentarians
( Print: April 2011 )

The Handbook contains a compilation of international laws and good practices developed to combat human trafficking. It offers guidance on how national legislation can be brought in line with...

The Handbook contains a compilation of international laws and good practices developed to combat human trafficking. It offers guidance on how national legislation can be brought in line with...


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Promoting the Rights of Children with Disabilities

Series: Innocenti Digest
( Print: January 2008 )

The Innocenti Digest on Promoting the Rights of Children with Disabilities attempts to provide a global perspective on the situation of some 200 million children with disabilities. The Digest is based...

The Innocenti Digest on Promoting the Rights of Children with Disabilities attempts to provide a global perspective on the situation of some 200 million children with disabilities. The Digest is based...


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Changing a Harmful Social Convention

Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

Series: Innocenti Digest
( Print: January 2008 )

This Innocenti Digest examines the social dynamics of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). In communities where it is practiced, FGM/C is an important part of girls’ and women’s cultural gender...

This Innocenti Digest examines the social dynamics of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). In communities where it is practiced, FGM/C is an important part of girls’ and women’s cultural gender...


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Combatting Trafficking in Persons

A Handbook for Parliamentarians

Series: Handbook for Parliamentarians
( Print: July 2009, PDF: August 2009 )

Trafficking in persons is a form of modern-day slavery, a human rights violation that constitutes a crime against the individual and the State. It must be recognized and punished by legislative means...

Trafficking in persons is a form of modern-day slavery, a human rights violation that constitutes a crime against the individual and the State. It must be recognized and punished by legislative means...


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From Exclusion to Equality

Realizing the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Series: Handbook for Parliamentarians
( Print: March 2015, PDF: February 2015 )

Parliaments and parliamentarians have a key role to play in promoting and protecting human rights. This Handbook aims to assist parliamentarians and others in efforts to realize the Convention so that...

Parliaments and parliamentarians have a key role to play in promoting and protecting human rights. This Handbook aims to assist parliamentarians and others in efforts to realize the Convention so that...