TREATMENT OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN Resolving to: * Address directly the issues of human rights for women and girls worldwide at the United Nations Special Session on Children * Continue supporting the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF); participate in the Working Group on the Girl Child, the Working Group on Education, and the Working Group on the Convention on the Rights of the Child; and advocate for the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) * Seek collaboration with other educational organizations and agencies to inform its members and issue a joint statement to legislators, declaring that all rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child are indivisible, interdependent, and universal for all the world's children.
Just last spring, the United States joined forces with Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Syria, and the Vatican (what a panoply of enlightenment) to strong-arm the United Nations Special Session on Children.
The first United Nations Special Session on Children, held in May 2002, had set goals designed to improve children's health and survival, provide quality education, reverse the impact of HIV and AIDS, and protect children from exploitation and violence.
In May 2002, 60 heads of state and government came to New York for the first-ever United Nations Special Session on Children, which had been postponed due to the events of 9/11.
The recent United Nations Special Session on Children exposed failures of Governments in creating an enabling environment for youth within the Millennium Goals.
On the eve of the United Nations Special Session on Children in New York City (September 19-21), Save the Children has released the State of the World's Newborns, a first-ever report spotlighting the broad implications of newborn care and neglect and the solutions to prevent millions of newborn deaths that occur annually.
We have a real opportunity to use the upcoming United Nations Special Session on Children to protect and improve children's health all over the world by making concrete commitments on their behalf.
for Monday, September 10 --(BUSINESS WIRE) Funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Study and Global Initiative Aim to Improve Newborn Survival WHAT: On the eve of the United Nations Special Session on Children (UNSS) in New York City, Save the Children, a leading international child development and relief organization, is releasing State of the World's Newborns, a first-ever report spotlighting the broad implications of newborn care and neglect.
