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Healthy 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.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.DocumentThe 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.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]Pages