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The Convention on the Rights of the Child
United Nations Children's Fund, 1989The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was adopted by the UN's General Assembly in 1989 and entered into force in 1990. This Convention applies to human beings below the age of eighteen.DocumentPlan of Action for Implementing the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children
United Nations Children's Fund, 1999DocumentPopulation and Development: Implications for the World Bank
Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1994Report examines the changes in population dynamics and in the policy environment that have produced this consensus and explores their policy and operational implications for the World Bank's population work. The report has five core messages: Slowing population growth is still a high priority in the poorest countries.DocumentOpportunities for women through reproductive choice
Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, 1999Women want better lives for themselves, their children, their families, and their communities. They want to do their best in their current roles as mothers, wives, workers, and community members. Many women also want new opportunities in life--chances to learn, to make their own decisions, to have more say in the course of their own lives. Women want to have choices.DocumentAn Overview of Selected Curable Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1999This document contains WHO estimates of the prevalence and incidence of some of the curable sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), based on information published in the world scientific literature and in WHO archives.DocumentA New Role for Men: Partners for Women's Empowerment
United Nations Population Fund, 1999This booklet calls for men to assume their responsibilities as fathers and play a decisive role as supportive parents and husbands. Broader men's involvement in fatherhood is a key to empowering women and to improving the bond between fathers and children. [UNFPA]DocumentThe State of World Population 1997: the Right to Choose: Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Health
United Nations Population Fund, 1999Gaps and failures in reproductive health care, combined with widespread discrimination and violence against women, amount to a massive violation of human rights. Denial of sexual and reproductive rights–including free choice with regard to pregnancy and childbearing–causes millions of deaths every year, and much more illness and disability.DocumentThe Control of Epidemic Dysentery in Africa: Overview, recommendations, and Checklists
Africa Bureau Information Center, USAID, 1999Provides an overview of cholera and dysentery, followed by a brief history of dysentery epidemics in Africa, the current epidemiology, and a few of the lessons learned in other parts of the world, concluding with recommendations.Pages