Children

 

Introduction & Overview

introduction
introduction & overview of the issue

overviews & key resources
overview factsheets, key websites & resources


In-depth Resource Guide

articles & literature
articles, documents, factsheets, reports & publications

organizations & websites
organizations, programs, and other informational websites
introduction  Six hundred million children are living in extreme poverty. Millions of children die each year of preventable diseases. Among the world’s primary-age children, 125 million are not in school and another 150 million drop out of school within just four years. Violence against children in families and institutions remains endemic and widely defended. During the past decade, increasing numbers of children have been affected by conflict, often exploited with brutal and callous contempt as targets of war – between 1993 and 1996, 45% of victims of war were children. To date more than 10 million children in Africa have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS. And throughout the world, millions of children are forced into harmful and exploitative forms of work or subjected to sexual abuse, prostitution and trafficking.