State of the World's Children: Excluded and Invisible, 2006 - Softcover

United Nations (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9280639161 ISBN 13: 9789280639162

Publisher: United Nations Publications, 2005

Synopsis

This year’s report highlights the needs of the millions of children who have not been the beneficiaries of past gains, the ones who are excluded or ‘invisible’. As the world presses ahead with the strategies, initiatives and financing needed to realise the vision of the Millennium Declaration, it must not allow these children to be forgotten.

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Synopsis

The 2006 edition of UNICEF's annual report focuses on the millions of children who are most in need of access to essential education, health and protection services, but who are also the hardest to reach and often overlooked by current development programmes. These include children living in the poorest countries and most deprived communities within countries, children who face discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnicity or disability, children caught up in armed conflicts or affected by HIV/AIDS, children who lack a formal identity and who suffer from abuse and exploitation. The report examines the factors which result in their exclusion from current child development programmes and services, and highlights the policy options and actions required to address these challenges, in order to ensure all children benefit from the progress being made to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Topics discussed include: income disparities and child survival, the marginalisation of Roma communities and their children, disability issues, children and HIV/AIDS, children living on the streets, early marriages, child labour, child protection and child rights.

Edition details

• Publisher: United Nations Publications
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9280639161
• ISBN 13: 9789280639162
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152