TY  - BOOK
ED  - United Nations Children's Fund, New York, NY.
ED  - United Nations Children's Fund, New York, NY.
TI  - The State of the World's Children 1997
SN  - 9780192628718 :
U1  - 613.0432 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - [S.l.]
PB  - Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse
KW  - Change Strategies
KW  - ericd
KW  - Child Advocacy
KW  - Child Health
KW  - Child Labor
KW  - Child Safety
KW  - Child Welfare
KW  - Childhood Needs
KW  - Children
KW  - Childrens Rights
KW  - Developed Nations
KW  - Developing Nations
KW  - Foreign Countries
KW  - Immunization Programs
KW  - Labor Legislation
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Nutrition
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Well Being
KW  - UNICEF
KW  - United Nations Convention on Rights of the Child
KW  - World Summit for Children 1990
N1  - Availability: UNICEF, 333 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016 (U.S., $12.95; United Kingdom, 6.95 British Pounds Sterling); ERIC Note: For 1996 edition, see ED 394 689; for 1997 summary, see PS 025 316; Microfiche; [Washington D.C.]; ERIC Clearinghouse; microfiches : positive
N2  - This report on the well-being of the world's children focuses on the issue of child labor and its impact on children's lives. Chapter 1 provides a historical context for children's rights and highlights the need to guarantee the civil, social, economic, and political rights of children. The chapter shows how the world's course toward peace, equality, development, and justice can be helped by the conviction expressed in the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child that children have the same spectrum of rights as adults. Chapter 2 gives an overview of child labor, its practice in developing and industrialized countries, its origins, the importance of basic education as a deterrence to child labor, and potential actions to prevent the practice. It proposes six steps to end child labor: (1) immediate elimination of hazardous and exploitative child labor; (2) provision of free and compulsory education; (3) wider legal protection; (4) birth registration of all children; (5) data collection and monitoring of child labor; and (6) codes of conduct and procurement policies. Chapter 3 provides statistics, such as those on child mortality, immunization, maternal mortality, malnutrition, and school enrollment that chart each nation's progress towards achieving the goals for children set at the 1990 World Summit for Children. (Contains about 100 references.) (Author/KDFB)
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