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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...

This official report of the Board of Auditors transmits to the United Nations General Assembly the financial report and audited financial statements of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme...

Official Records of the Financial Report and Audited Financial Statements for the Biennium Ended 31 December 2009 and Report of the Board of Auditors: United Nations Human Settlements Programme.

This official record provides the financial report and accounts of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, including associate trust funds and other related accounts, for the year ended 31...

This official record provides the financial report and accounts of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, including associate trust funds and other related accounts, for the biennium ended 21...

This official record provides the financial report and accounts of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, including associate trust funds and other related accounts, for the year ended 31...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 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 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...

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 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...