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Family and Parenting Support

Policy and Provision in a Global Context

Series: Insight Innocenti
( Print: June 2015, PDF: December 2015 )

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...


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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...


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Children and Disability in Transition in CEE/CIS and Baltic States

Series: Insight Innocenti
( 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...


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Information and Communication Technology for Peace

The Role of ICT in Preventing, Responding to and Recovering from Conflict

Series: ICT Task Force Series
( Print: November 2005, PDF: October 2006 )

The examples of Information and Communication Technology use in warfare are well known: propaganda, intelligence, communications and ICT-enabled weapons. This report aims to answer the following...

The examples of Information and Communication Technology use in warfare are well known: propaganda, intelligence, communications and ICT-enabled weapons. This report aims to answer the following...


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Harnessing the Potential of ICT for Education

A Multistakeholder Approach - Proceedings from the Dublin Global Forum of the United Nations ICT...

Series: ICT Task Force Series
( Print: November 2005, PDF: October 2006 )

While the right to education is recognized as fundamental for each citizen, access to it is not guaranteed. In the developing world, the essential building blocks for education systems are suffering...

While the right to education is recognized as fundamental for each citizen, access to it is not guaranteed. In the developing world, the essential building blocks for education systems are suffering...


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The World Summit on the Information Society

Moving from the Past into the Future

Series: ICT Task Force Series
( Print: November 2008 )

This book is a collection of more than fifty short papers, providing readers with first hand insights from key players who participated in the making of the World Summit on the Information Society...

This book is a collection of more than fifty short papers, providing readers with first hand insights from key players who participated in the making of the World Summit on the Information Society...


Measuring ICT for Development

Series: ICT Task Force Series

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Reforming Internet Governance

Perspectives from the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG)

Series: ICT Task Force Series
( Print: November 2008 )

The WGIG's mandate is to analyze the governance of Internet and make proposals for action as well as to identify the public policy issues involved.This volume presents papers by former members of the...

The WGIG's mandate is to analyze the governance of Internet and make proposals for action as well as to identify the public policy issues involved.This volume presents papers by former members of the...


Peace

Series: ICT Task Force Series

Global ICT Indicators Stocktaking

Status of Information Society Statistics in Developing Countries

Series: ICT Task Force Series

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Wireless Internet Opportunity for Developing Countries, The

Series: ICT Task Force Series
( Print: May 2004, PDF: October 2006 )

This publication examines the potential of proven and inexpensive technologies to bridge the connectivity gap, which is one of the key factors of the digital divide. Key issues that need the attention...

This publication examines the potential of proven and inexpensive technologies to bridge the connectivity gap, which is one of the key factors of the digital divide. Key issues that need the attention...


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Information Insecurity

A Survival Guide to the Uncharted Territories of Cyber-threats and Cyber-security

Series: ICT Task Force Series
( Print: July 2005 )

This book attempts to create greater awareness about the growing dangers of cyber-hooliganism, cyber-crime, cyber-terrorism and cyber-war, inherent in the new opportunities for good and evil that have...

This book attempts to create greater awareness about the growing dangers of cyber-hooliganism, cyber-crime, cyber-terrorism and cyber-war, inherent in the new opportunities for good and evil that have...


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Information and Communication Technologies for African Development

An Assessment of Progress and Challenges Ahead

Series: ICT Task Force Series
( Print: July 2005 )

Nowhere is the digital divide more pronounced than in countries of the African continent. Africa is the most unconnected, in an increasingly connected world. Yet, given the broad spectrum of...

Nowhere is the digital divide more pronounced than in countries of the African continent. Africa is the most unconnected, in an increasingly connected world. Yet, given the broad spectrum of...


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Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Global Development, The

Analyses and Policy Recommendations

Series: ICT Task Force Series
( Print: July 2005 )

This publication, which is a reflection and synthesis of the dialogue among the Task Force community, illustrates the importance placed on understanding, exploring and integrating the myriad...

This publication, which is a reflection and synthesis of the dialogue among the Task Force community, illustrates the importance placed on understanding, exploring and integrating the myriad...


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Connected for Development

Information Kiosks and Sustainability

Series: ICT Task Force Series
( Print: July 2005 )

This publication suggests that Information kiosks can be a timely model based on lessons learned from Internet Cafes, placing the focus on using the technology as a tool to deliver information and...

This publication suggests that Information kiosks can be a timely model based on lessons learned from Internet Cafes, placing the focus on using the technology as a tool to deliver information and...


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Internet Governance

A Grand Collaboration

Series: ICT Task Force Series
( Print: July 2005 )

This publication is an edited collection of papers contributed to the United Nations ICT Task Force Global Forum on Internet Governance (New York, 25 - 26 March 2004). The papers provide useful...

This publication is an edited collection of papers contributed to the United Nations ICT Task Force Global Forum on Internet Governance (New York, 25 - 26 March 2004). The papers provide useful...


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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...


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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...


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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...


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WTO, E-commerce and Information Technologies

From the Uruguay Round through the Doha Development Agenda - A Report to the UN ICT Task Force

Series: ICT Task Force Series
( Print: August 2005, PDF: October 2006 )

This paper presents an overview of one of the most important processes today determining the governance of information technology: the growing role of the World Trade Organization. The application of...

This paper presents an overview of one of the most important processes today determining the governance of information technology: the growing role of the World Trade Organization. The application of...