World Fit for Children
Children from all around the world gathered in New York in May 2002 to take part in the United Nations Special Session on Children and to discuss the things that mattered to them most: child rights, exploitation, war, health care, HIV and AIDS, the environment, poverty, education and child participation. This booklet is a compilation of their voices on type of World They Want. Read
This Report is the most comprehensive statistical assessment to date of advances made towards creating ‘A World Fit for Children’ – the vision of the outcome document from the historic 2002 Special Session. It targets four strategic areas: promoting healthy lives; providing a quality education; protecting children against abuse, exploitation and violence; and combating HIV and AIDS. Read
This report provides new information and analysis on how far the world has come in reducing child and maternal mortality and malnutrition, ensuring universal primary education, protecting children against abuse, exploitation and violence, and combating HIV and AIDS. It is based on an extensive and valuable set of reports by UN Member States. Read
The documents in this book — the Millennium Development Goals, documents of the UN General Assembly's Special Session on Children, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child — constitute an essential guidebook for all those working to improve the lives of children and young people. Read
This publication puts "A World Fit for Children" into the hands of children and young people so they can be aware of the promises made by the governments of the world. This ‘child-friendly’ version will enable children and young people to play a part in making sure that the promises made in New York are achieved, and in checking that everyone is doing what they have promised to. Read
Building a World Fit for Children reports on the landmark United Nations Special Session on Children, held at UN headquarters in May 2002. This was the first Special Session of the General Assembly devoted exclusively to children and the first to include them as official delegates. Read
The Children’s Forum Report outline the participation of children and adolescents in the UN Special Session on Children in 2002. Amongst others, the Report highlights young people’s key messages to their leaders as well as their own promises to tackle issues relating to poverty, health, HIV and AIDS, child exploitation and the environment. Read
This is a landmark report issued by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2001. It assesses the progress made in meeting the commitments made to the children around the globe at the 1990 World Summit for Children, as well as best practices and lessons learned and a plan of action for building A World Fit for Children. This September 2001 report is an updated version. Read
World Fit for Children Plus 5 Progress for Children 2007 |
