ABC La enseñanza de los Derechos Humanos: Actividades prácticas para escuelas primarias y secundaria -2 June 2010
*Eso se ha querido crear un instrumento para la educación de los derechos humanos fácil de usar asî como un marco polifacético para tratar de diversos aspectos de los derechos humanos básicos *Se ofrecen consejos prácticos a los profesores y otros educadores que quieran fomentar el conocimiento de los derechos humanos y las actividades en ese campo entre los alumnos de las escuelas primarias y secundarias *Esta publicación no ha sido concebida como libro de texto de una asignatura más de los programas de estudios-que a buen seguro ya estarán sobrecargados-sino como ayuda para introducir los aspectos de los derechos humanos en las materias que ya se enseñaran en las escuelas
Join the conversationDesigning a Peacebuilding Infrastructure: Taking a Systems Approach to the Prevention of Deadly Conf -31 May 2010
*NGLS development dossier focusing on conflict prevention and peacebuilding *Explores such issues as structural and institutional prevention, the linkages between conflict prevention and development, as well as the importance of regional mechanisms and early warning systems *Analyzes how conflict and prevention are perceived and addressed by the international community, and offers a series of applicable recommendations
Join the conversationDiva International: 60th Anniversary of the United Nations -14 May 2010
*Interviews with Hardeep S. Puri (India), Wegger Strommen (Norway), Margaret Hugues Ferrari (St. Vincent and the Grenadines), Gordon Markotic (Croatia), Homero L. Hernandez (Dominican Republic), Jean Gazarian, Jan Egeland (UN), Peter Schmitz (UN), Hany Abdel-Aziz, Elisabeth Byrs (OCHA), Debra P. Innocent (UNFCU)
Join the conversationEngendering the Global Agenda: The Story of Women and the United Nations -14 May 2010
*Development dossier covering the history of women's issues and their involvement in inter-governmental organizations from the League of Nations to the time of its publication (2002) *Published for non-governmental and civil society organizations interested in the UN system
Join the conversationGeneral Comments of the Committee on the Rights of the Child -17 May 2010
*Includes CD with Concluding Observations *Includes General Comments No. 1- No. 8 (2001-2006): The Aims of Education; The Role of Independent National Human Rights Institutions in the promotioon and protection of the rights of the child; HIV/AIDS and the rights of the child; Adolescent Health and Development in the contesxt of the Convention on the Rights of the Child; Treatment of Unaccompanied and Separated Children; Implementing child rights in Early Childhood; The right of the Child to protection from corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment *Includes other materials for the CRC at 18
Join the conversationHuman Rights Fact Sheet No. 16 (Rev. 1): The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -14 May 2010
* Analysis of International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
Join the conversationHuman Rights Fact Sheet No. 2 (Rev. 1): The International Bill of Human Rights -14 May 2010
*Contains texts from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its two Optional Protocols
Join the conversationHumanitarian Action in the 21st Century -12 May 2010
*Compilation of essays by directors of each of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee members (mostly UN agencies) with their mission statements and their approach to humanitarian assistance
Join the conversationIntergovernmental Negotiations and Decision Making at the United Nations: A Guide -14 May 2010
*Describes how decision making at the UN works and a guide to NGO participation
Join the conversationJeunes refugies africains: construire l`avenir -5 May 2010
*Un dossier pedagogique pour les eleves des ecoles secondaires *Une vidéo (67 minutes) et un support de cours pour l’enseignant
Join the conversationLegislative History of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Vol I and II -3 June 2010
*The adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights sixty years ago ushered in an era of prolific standard-setting in the field of international human rights law *As of 2007, universal human rights norms have been articulated in nine international human rights treaties, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocols *Documents how the Convention on the Rights of the Child came into being providing a comprehensive record of the legislative history of the Convention *Two-volume set aims to serve as a research tool for children's rights advocates
Join the conversationReaffirming Human Rights for All: The Universal Declaration at 60 -17 May 2010
*Schedule and speaker profiles for participants in the 61st Annual DPI/NGO Conference, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, 3-5 September 2008
Join the conversationReport on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic 2002 -14 May 2010
*Report on HIV/Aids epidemic which brings together eight United Nations system organizations: UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, UNDCP, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, The World Bank
Join the conversationStaff Development and Learning Programme, Geneva 2007 -19 May 2010
*Instructive manual for professional development in the United Nations
Join the conversationThe Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights -14 May 2010
*Introduces the OHCHR and describes its role in the UN human rights programme
Join the conversationThe Right to Human Rights Education -2 June 2010
*A compilation of provisions of international and regional instruments dealing with human rights education
Join the conversationToward a World Community: The United Nations and the Future -12 May 2010
*Sep/Oct 1994 issues (Vol. 85, No.1) of Church and Society dedicated to examining the United Nations, its history, its problems, its accomplishments, to helping recover and rebuild consituency in support of the UN, and to reexamining own theological and biblical understandings of the world
Join the conversationUNESCO Publishing Catalogue 2008/9 -7 May 2010
*Catalogue featuring all of UNESCO's purchasable publications with descriptions, prices and ordering intstructions
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