Webpages tagged with «Child labour»
This World Bank policy research working paper investigates household-level strategies for adapting to climate change in rural settings, looking particularly at the adaptive capacity of poor rural households – a subject the authors claim has received little attention due to its broad and complex nature.
This World Bank policy research working paper investigates household-level strategies for adapting to climate change in rural settings, looking particularly at the adaptive capacity of poor rural households – a subject the authors claim has received little attention due to its broad and complex nature.
The links between climate change and disasters in South Asia, such as flooding in Pakistan or cyclones in Bangladesh, are increasingly evident. However, there is little recognition of the potentially life-long impact of climate change and related disasters on the wellbeing of the region’s children. In a region that accounts for more than one quarter of the world’s children, with 614 million children under 18, girls and boys must receive greater priority in measures to respond to disasters and in disaster risk reduction planning.
Overseas Development Institute published this project briefing. This and other ODI Project Briefings are available from www.odi.org.uk
The links between climate change and disasters in South Asia, such as flooding in Pakistan or cyclones in Bangladesh, are increasingly evident. However, there is little recognition of the potentially life-long impact of climate change and related disasters on the wellbeing of the region’s children. In a region that accounts for more than one quarter of the world’s children, with 614 million children under 18, girls and boys must receive greater priority in measures to respond to disasters and in disaster risk reduction planning.
Overseas Development Institute published this project briefing. This and other ODI Project Briefings are available from www.odi.org.uk
The Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) programme is an inter-agency research cooperation initiative involving the International Labour Organisation (ILO), UNICEF and the World Bank.
A new portal focused on links between business and children’s rights has been launched by the non-profit Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. This joint initiative by UNICEF, UN Global Compact and Save the Children aims to develop a set of principles offering concrete guidance on what business can do to respect and support children’s rights. The draft principles are open for public comment until 15 July 2011.
Final report from the 2010 edition of the International Interdisciplinary Course On Children’s Rights.
The production and export of cotton continues to be a major feature of the economy, politics and everyday lives of the people of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Bringing in the cotton harvest in Central Asia has traditionally involved mobilizing wide sections of the community, including young people.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN CRISIS: THE IMPACT OF FINANCIAL CRISES ON THE HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION PROCESS OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND HOW TO BEST PROTECT SUCH INVESTMENTS
A research conference organised by World Bank Human Development Network and Jacobs Foundation
Castle Marbach, Marbach, Germany, May 5-6, 2011 Deadline for abstracts: February 15, 2011
CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN CRISIS: THE IMPACT OF FINANCIAL CRISES ON THE HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION PROCESS OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND HOW TO BEST PROTECT SUCH INVESTMENTS
A research conference organised by World Bank Human Development Network and Jacobs Foundation
Deadline for abstracts: February 15, 2011
This booklet provides an overview of IPEC’s work on child labour and education and broader ILO concerns on training and skills.
Fafo Research Program on Trafficking and Child Labour
Project by the International Labour Organisation, regional office of Asia and the Pacific. The website offers good and extensive information resources on trafficking and economic exploitation of Women and Children in the Mekong region (Cambodia, China (Yunnan), Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam)
Project to Combat Trafficking in Children and Women (TIWC) is part of the ILO effort to achieve full ratification and development of ILO Convention 182 (Elimination of Worst Forms of Child Labour)
Launched in 1996 as part of the National Task Force for Children, IRC works to improve the well-being of children, youth, women and families by providing multidisciplinary research and analysis to practitioners, policy makers and advocates in Jordan and the Middle East to enable effective socio-economic planning and decision making.
The Research Center for Children and Families (CENDIF) has as its main objective the study of children, youth and their families, as well as various aspects of human development. An important feature of his work is the development and dissemination of alternative practices to expand and improve programs and services in the areas of education, health and development of the poorest sectors of society. Cendif gives importance to the production, monitoring and evaluation of intervention programs and maintains a very close relationship with the public sector and professionals involved in education and health.
Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) is a University with excellence that makes a decisive difference in achieving equity and justice in many spheres by using research, teaching, hands on work and influencing people centered policies. The Institute has Six Schools and their constituent Centres and four Independent Centres.
Keyatta University (KU) takes pride in the fact that it is home to some of the world's top scholars, researchers and educationists. KU is especially renowned for the high standards of the Education Department, its flagship department since inception. This is evidenced by the institution's ISO certification, in addition to being declared the top performing parastatal and university in Kenya in 2008.
CINDE, is an educational research and development center, based in Colombia, with local, national and international projection. The Center's central focus is the creation of appropriate environments for the healthy physical and psychosocial development of young children.
In June 2001, CIDA launched its Action Plan on Child Protection. The action plan established a $2 million Child Protection Research Fund to explore certain aspects of children’s rights and protection and to inform and influence policy. Results from the 13 funded research projects are now available.
The aim of the centre is to provide higher education in Childhood Studies and to initiate and carry out research on the life worlds of children and childhood. An important task is to create comprehensive insights in and understanding of the conditions under which children live and of the basic premises of childhood in different social and cultural contexts.
Excellent and extensive website with many resources, latest news releases, reports on all of their projects and programmes. Includes links to legal documents and other recommended organisation including the Innocenti Research Centre in Florence, Unicef's main research arm. It maintains and updates global databases and promotes dissemination of evidence-based data for planning and advocacy. It also includes resources for teachers/students and for developing professionals. UNICEF is the lead United Nations (UN) agency responsible for the global monitoring of the child-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The website includes photo essays, latest news releases, videos and reports. It also includes a list of all their campaigns worldwide
SPARC is one a civil society organization in Pakistan specializing in advocacy on child rights, supported by awareness raising, research, capacity building and service delivery.
In addition to the research that goes into producing its numerous publications, including three major books on child labor, juvenile justice and child rights, its annual report The State of Pakistan’s Children and a large number of brochures, SPARC has conducted a number of research studies.
