Image
Show or Sort:
Image
Integrating Geology in Urban Planning
Series: Atlas of Urban Geology
( Print: June 2002
)
The Atlas of Urban Geology series is published by ESCAP in an effort to familiarize member countries with the outcome of a series of projects that are aimed at encouraging governments to make more...
The Atlas of Urban Geology series is published by ESCAP in an effort to familiarize member countries with the outcome of a series of projects that are aimed at encouraging governments to make more...
Image
Image
Urban Geology and the Impact on Our Lives
Samples from Daily Life in Bangkok
Series: Atlas of Urban Geology
( Print: June 2002
)
The Atlas of Urban Geology series is published by ESCAP in an effort to familiarize member countries with the outcome of a series of projects that are aimed at inducing central and local governments...
The Atlas of Urban Geology series is published by ESCAP in an effort to familiarize member countries with the outcome of a series of projects that are aimed at inducing central and local governments...
Image
Image
Children in Institutions
The Beginning of the End?
Series: Insight Innocenti
( Print: August 2003
)
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...
Image
Image
Trafficking in Human Beings, Especially Women and Children, in Africa
Series: Insight Innocenti
( 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...
Image
Image
Laying the Foundations for Children's Rights
Series: Insight Innocenti
( 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...
Image
Image
Evolving Capacities of the Child, The
Series: Insight Innocenti
( 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...
Image
Image
Making Philippine Cities Child Friendly
Voices of Children in Poor Communities
Series: Insight Innocenti
( Print: April 2006
)
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...
Image
Image
Ground beneath Our Feet, The
A Factor in Urban Planning
Series: Atlas of Urban Geology
( Print: June 2004,
PDF: October 2006
)
The status of urban geology in more than 25 member countries of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific is reviewed in this series, which discusses the application of geology to...
The status of urban geology in more than 25 member countries of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific is reviewed in this series, which discusses the application of geology to...
Two Faces of Education in Ethnic Conflict, The
Towards a Peacebuilding Education for Children
Series: Insight Innocenti
( Print: May 2001
)
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...
Promoting Children's Participation in Democratic Decision-Making
Series: Insight Innocenti
( 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)...
Urban Geology in Asia and the Pacific Region
Series: Atlas of Urban Geology
( Print: July 2000
)
As early as 1985, in view of the fast-growing economies and populations of the Asia and the Pacific region, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific became aware of the need to...
As early as 1985, in view of the fast-growing economies and populations of the Asia and the Pacific region, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific became aware of the need to...