This document outlines a workshop-based approach to consulting children on their priorities for a post-MDG framework. It provides a series of activities designed to be fun and engaging for boys and girls of different ages and in different contexts. Two wo

Caribbean experts including religious leaders unite in calling for an end to corporal punishment of children in their homes, schools and all other places in this new report following up the UN Secretary General’s Study on Violence against Children. This 6

Around the world, discussions are currently taking place on the framework that will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) when they come to an end in 2015. Commitments have been made to ensuring that the process of developing this new framework

Until recently, newborn health was virtually absent from the global health agenda. Now, assistance agencies, national governments and non-governmental organisations are increasingly addressing this previously neglected issue of close to four million newbo

In Latin America and the Caribbean, violence transcends cultural borders, class differences, education, ethnic origin or age, and threatens or even kills thousands of children and adolescents. A large part of this violence, which includes physical, sexual

In 1999 the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) introduced a new process for low-income countries requesting debt relief from the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative or those seeking low-interest IMF and World Bank loans. To