On the 20 November 2009 the international community will observe the 20th Anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
The United Nations estimate the population of street children worldwide at 150 million, but the number grows every day. Some of them live in abandoned buildings; others in cars with their families; some are forced to beg or steal, and beaten...
The United Nations Secretary-General's Study on Violence against Children has been a global effort to paint a detailed picture of the nature, extent and causes of violence against children...
Franciscans International is part of a group of NGO who actively support the adoption of a set of UN Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights.
There is a general recognition of the growing assault on democratic space across the world, whether through war or fundamentalism, as a central feature of world politics at the present stage in history.
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