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  • New York City homeless population at an all-time high 21 Nov 2009 05:55 GMT
    ... New York City homeless population at an all-time high ... includes approximately 10,000 homeless families with 16,500 children. The number of homeless housed by the ... is so egregious that the United Nations Human Rights Council recently appointed a special rapporteur on ...

  • Despite much progress, more must be done to protect childrenÂ's rights  UN 21 Nov 2009 08:42 GMT
    ... in improving the lot of the world's children, including a 28 per cent drop in ... annually. The Convention “is the most ratified human rights treaty in human history” with 193 States ... and panel discussion at UN Headquarters in New York tomorrow. In a foreword to the report, ...

  • "Seize opportunity" for children, says UN chief 21 Nov 2009 01:51 GMT
    ... build a world that is fit for children" at a time when children across the ... the Child at the UN headquarters in New York Nov. 20, 2009. Ban Ki- moon Friday ... has become history's most widely accepted international human rights treaty," Ban said at the event at ...

  • UN officials: Twenty years after treaty, ensuring child rights still a challenge 21 Nov 2009 05:12 GMT
    ... The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has become the most widely accepted human rights treaty in history, but 20 years after ... special event at the UN Headquarters in New York, just one of over 160 events taking ...

  • Ensuring child rights still a challenge, 20 years after treaty - UN officials 21 Nov 2009 07:12 GMT
    ... at Convention on the Rights of the Child event The Convention on the Rights of ... Child has become the most widely accepted human rights treaty in history, but 20 years after ... we are addressing on a daily basis. New York, just one of over 160 events taking ...

  • World gets 'must try harder' report on children 21 Nov 2009 00:19 GMT
    ... An estimated one billion children still lack services essential to their survival. ... essential to their survival. Photo / AP NEW YORK - Unicef urged the world to help ... convention has the widest support of any human rights treaty - 193 countries - although Veneman ...

  • Somalia to join child rights pact: UN 21 Nov 2009 05:14 GMT
    ... ratify a global treaty aimed at protecting children, leaving the United States as the only ... years ago. The most widely ratified international human rights treaty, it declares that those under 18 ... US mission to the United Nations in New York, said on Thursday the administration of President ...

  • Thailand: End Detention of Lao Hmong Refugees 21 Nov 2009 00:40 GMT
    ... unlawful policy. Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch (New York) - The Thai government should immediately end ... of adequate light, separated parents from their children, denied them mosquito nets and clean clothing, ...

  • A life travelling the path of peace 21 Nov 2009 02:51 GMT
    ... busier and remains a passionate campaigner for human rights, writes IT'S NOT EASY at the best ... up in front of a group of children - let alone, a thousand of them ... NGOs moving between his home bases in New York and Errislannan, Clifden, Co Galway. Just last ...

  • Zimbabwean Rights Defender and Movement to Receive RFK Award at White House Ceremony 21 Nov 2009 02:31 GMT
    ... will receive the 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award at an evening ceremony to be ... the rights to food and education for children, and the rights to participation and association. ... Buffalo Law School, The State University of New York; Sushma Raman, President of Southern California Grantmakers; ...

  • Gideon Levy / Mourning uprooted olive trees in West Bank villages 21 Nov 2009 01:42 GMT
    ... in Burin: "These trees are like my children." Hands or children, the grief of those ... monitors checkpoints, and Yesh Din (Volunteers for Human Rights). She has crisscrossed the territories in her ... Mossad and served as consul general in New York, among other state posts. He was a ...

  • Terror trials differ in civilian, military courts 21 Nov 2009 16:34 GMT
    ... alleged henchmen to a civilian trial in New York, while a suspect in the USS Cole ... of the terrorism and counterterrorism program at Human Rights Watch, said another indication of the reduced ... general interest news site. Sometimes, there are children present. Don't say anything in a way ...

  • REP. CALVERT SIGNS DISCHARGE PETITION ON GUANTANAMO BAY CLOSING 21 Nov 2009 04:31 GMT
    ... our society. It is already happening in New York. “The trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is ... to acknowledge even the most basic of human rights, such as not using children as human shields. Even more offensive, the ...

  • Japan: Press North Korea on Human Rights 19 Nov 2009 06:50 GMT
    ... but Japan has been largely silent on human rights issues except for abductions of Japanese citizens. ... Doi, Tokyo director at Human Rights Watch (New York) - The new Japanese government should take ... citizens, former residents, and their spouses and children. According to North Korean escapees, the North ...

  • Mexican Citizen Sentenced to 121 Months in Prison for her Participation in an Organization that Forced Young Mexican Women into Sexual Slavery in New York 17 Nov 2009 23:50 GMT
    ... U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York; and John Morton, Assistant Secretary, Immigration and ... of their freedom, their dignity and their human rights. This case should send a clear message ... criminals coercing and trafficking young women and children into prostitution," said ICE Assistant Secretary Morton. ...


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