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The commercial sale of camel milk from pastoral herds in the Mogadishu hinterland, Somalia
Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1990Traditional subsistence pastoral systems in East Africa are typically geared towards the output of calves and milk for human consumption. The production of meat (though not unimportant) is subsidiary to the calf-milk operation.DocumentWorld Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children
United Nations Children's Fund, 1999DocumentSocial indicators for less populous countries [statistics and league tables]
The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1998The indicators used to construct the league tables in The Progress of Nations 1998 include: per cent of registered births; per cent of children not immunized against measles; and number of live births per 1,000 women age 15-19. Using the same indicators, the following table shows the progress of those countries with populations of less than 1 million.DocumentHealthy cities, healthy children
The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999Economic development has brought comfort and convenience to many people in the industrialized world, but in its wake are pollution, new health problems, blighted urban landscapes and social isolation. Growing numbers of the dispossessed are also being left on the sidelines as the disparity between rich and poor grows.DocumentNo age of innocence: Justice for children
The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999Whether due to government paternalism or to simple disregard for their rights, juveniles who come into conflict with the law often face justice systems that treat them capriciously and offer fewer protections than they offer adults. Children in many countries face the wrath of the law for the ‘crimes’ of being poor, neglected or abused.DocumentQuality education: One answer for many questions
The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999Three years before the millennium, 140 million children are still not in school, despite government pledges to achieve universal access to basic education by the year 2000. Many of the youngsters who are in school find themselves squeezed onto crowded benches in dilapidated classrooms, lacking even a slate, while a teacher drills lessons by rote.DocumentFighting AIDS together [children and AIDS]
The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999The world's children are benefiting from several decades of unprecedented health progress. Child-killing diseases are succumbing to vaccination campaigns and low-cost remedies, reducing death rates and improving the quality of young lives. But in about 30 developing countries, HIV/AIDS is threatening and even reversing these strides.DocumentThe sanitation gap: Development's deadly menace
The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999Adequate sanitation is the foundation of development—but a decent toilet or latrine is an unknown luxury to half the people on earth. The percentage of those with access to hygienic sanitation facilities has declined slightly over the 1990s, as construction has fallen behind population growth. The main result can be summed up in one deadly word: diarrhoea.DocumentThe Progress of Nations Report, 1997
The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999The Progress of Nations, an annual scorecard of the social health of nations, records achievements in the form of statistics that measure fulfilment of minimum human needs. The knowledge it unearths is fundamental to solving problems, because information is the first ingredient needed by those with the will and the means to make change.Pages