December 2010
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Global Teenager Project Carries on as Independent... →
Launched by IICD in 1998, the Global Teenager Project brings together 16,000 students in 40 countries via the internet. However IICD is no longer able to financially support the project.The Global…
Protecting Ourselves and Each Other: A Child... →
This booklet was developed in Western Uganda to raise awareness among children and caregivers about child protection and child rights issues. The guide contains information that helps children and…
Ageing out of care: An international analysis of... →
The report is the main publication of the I Matter campaign, and highlights personal, social, legal, and administrative challenges facing care leavers. It also identifies weaknesses in legislation…
Youths must participate in politics
Youth political participation would strengthen good governance and democracy. Through your participation, you will in addition contribute to building of peace and positive values in society, a just and equitable society, national prosperity and reduction in unemployment among others
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Haiti's Children One Year Later: A Country at a... →
In any emergency, children are always the most vulnerable. This has been particularly true for children in Haiti since January 12, 2010, when the devastating 7.0 earthquake reduced buildings to rubble, destroyed much of the nation’s fragile infrastructure and extinguished the lives of 230,000 people. Approximately 46 percent of Haiti’s population is under the age of 18, making Save the Children’s...
Ceremony and Celebration for new Youth Leaders
‘Your attitudes and leadership consistency will be pivotal’ — Deputy Secretary-General
It was a day for ceremony and celebration in Chandigarh yesterday (weds) as the Commonwealth’s newly-elected youth leadership took their oaths in an hour-long Installation Ceremony Presided over by the Deputy Secretary-General Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba.
On Tuesday, at a special Youth Leaders’ Conference...
Ashoka and the G20 Funnel Half a Billion to...
You might have missed all the fanfare around last month’s G20 Summit in Seoul: another gathering of world leaders, another round of soundbites, another squandered opportunity to resolve real issues. Or at least, so the story goes.
But this year’s summit was different. During the two-day meeting, leaders pledged to invest more than $500,000,000 in 14 promising organizations working...
Ashoka and the G20 Funnel Half a Billion to...
You might have missed all the fanfare around last month’s G20 Summit in Seoul: another gathering of world leaders, another round of soundbites, another squandered opportunity to resolve real issues. Or at least, so the story goes.
But this year’s summit was different. During the two-day meeting, leaders pledged to invest more than $500,000,000 in 14 promising organizations working...
COP16 Cancún Climate Talks: Everything You Need to...
The Cancún climate talks have wrapped up with some surprising optimism and positivity. At COP16, parties collectively agreed to put aside for awhile the thornier issues—like specific emissions reductions targets and the “common but differentiated responsibilities” of developing and developed nations—that have long caused utter stalemate in the UNFCCC. Delegates approved, with necessary...
Meet the Supermodel Who's Changing Education for...
Still think supermodels only strut Bryant Park catwalks and puff cigarettes on the Lower East Side? Half Congolese, half Cypriot model Noella Coursaris is bucking the “nothing but a pretty face” stereotype. She’s using her celebrity platform to make positive social change by bankrolling schools for girls living in poverty in the Congo and working to educate the public about...
Humanitarian Action Report 2010 →
This latest edition of UNICEF’s Humanitarian Action Report highlights 28 of the most pressing crises. It emphasizes the crucial role of partnerships in assisting children and families in an…
Youth, Citizenship and Migration
A Commonwealth citizen is generally described as a person, who is a national of any country within the Commonwealth of Nations. Under this organization, these nations agree to support the values and principles of the Commonwealth which addresses key matters such as democracy, equality, as well as access to health and education. This simple description indicates that these countries certainly share...
Commonwealth forum to draft new statute
Our Year, Our Voice’- the theme for the Commonwealth Youth Leaders Conference which was inaugurated in the city on Monday, fittingly describes the milieu that surrounded the delegates at the conference on the day. Delegates from around 54 countries are in Chandigarh to elect a chair and vice-chair for the Pan-Commonwealth Youth Caucus. They have also taken up the opportunity to discuss some...
Protecting Hope: Situation Analysis of Vulnerable... →
In 2004, Uganda’s Ministry of Gender Labor and Social Development created the National OVC Policy, aimed at improving the quality of life for poor and vulnerable children. However, despite many…
The Foundation Years: preventing poor children... →
This Review recommends a new suite of measures to run alongside the existing financial poverty measures. The new measures will inform and drive policy, as well as spending decisions aimed at narrowing the outcome gaps between children from low and higher income families. The Review’s primary measurement recommendation is that the Government adopts a new set of Life Chances Indicators. These...
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Just Give Money to the Poor – and Children will... →
Children are the majority of the world’s poor, and any serious attempt to reduce poverty must consider the impact of policy on children. This fact sheet from UNICEF shows how cash transfers and other social protection programs are helping to address poverty for children
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International Day of Persons with Disabilities - 3...
“Keeping the promise: Mainstreaming disability in the Millennium Development Goals towards 2015 and beyond”
The annual observance of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December was established by the International Year for Disabled Persons (1981). The Day aims to promote a better understanding of disability issues with a focus on the rights of persons with...
So are the kids still not interested?
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“The winter of discontent”, yes, that was it’s name in 1978-1979, a good 10 years before I was born. With widespread strikes by local authority trade unions who were trying to secure larger pay rises for their members brought the country to a standstill.
“Are we entering another ‘Winter of Discontent’?” is a question many have asked after the recent spate of trade union...
WatchAqua Teen Hunger Force: Global Grilling
Shake purchases an environmentally unfriendly grill.
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The abolition of modern day child slavery →
Although it is impossible to correctly access the correct number of children in enslavement conditions worldwide, the UN estimates that around 8.7 million are currently involved in some type of…
Children and AIDS: Fifth Stocktaking Report, 2010 →
Advocacy and investment on behalf of children affected by AIDS have had an impact, and the goal of eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV appears within reach. But for every problem solved…
World AIDS Day →
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WORLD AIDS DAY TODAY!