UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) has made its "The State of the World's Children 1996" available on the Internet. Included are sections on Children in War, Anti-War Agenda, Fifty Years for Children, and Regional Spotlight. Also included are statistical tables dealing with such variables as nutrition, health, education, basic indicators, demographic indicators, and women, among others. ...

This United Nations Children's Fund report on the world's children focuses on nutrition. The report contains a forward by UN Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan and sections addressing the scale of malnutrition, successful approaches to combatting child hunger, and scientific breakthroughs in nutrition. Additional features include statistical tables, special issue panels, spotlights, text figures,...

Adopted by the General Affairs Council in Luxembourg on October 11, 1999, this report covers the period June 1, 1998 to June 30, 1999 and "intends to explain how the [European] Union's headway towards integration is paralleled in the field of human rights." The Report is offered as part of a wider effort to promote transparency of the EU's human rights policies. To that end, it explains the major...

DIANA, a joint project provided by an international consortium of libraries and human rights organizations, is dedicated to the construction of a comprehensive database of documents essential to human rights research. Currently, segments of the database are hosted by four libraries. Each library provides a unique set of documents for the collaborative database. The Yale Law School Library contains...

The Amnesty International Web site offers the full text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, the organizations goals and activities, and membership information.

This site provides interested Internauts with valuable information on the terrific problem of the millions of undetonated landmines world wide. The International Committee of the Red Cross offers many resources on the topic, including a recently released Information Paper: Anti-personnel mines: An overview (under The Problem). The Ottawa declaration and Global Plan of Action (1996) can be found...

Provided by the International Committee of the Red Cross, this site features the full text of 89 treaties, commentaries on the four Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, a list of signatures, ratifications relating to International Humanitarian Law treaties, and the full text of reservations. Users can browse treaties, texts, and articles by keywords, or list states, parties, and...

Established in 1994 by Howard Jonas to expose and combat censorship and human rights abuses around the world, DFN attempts to "fulfill the promise of the Internet" by publishing banned and censored material. The core of the site is a collection of banned material from seventeen countries, arranged by region and frequently updated. Among the dissident authors featured at the DFN website are Bao Ge...

November 20 marked the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child as an international human rights treaty. To mark the anniversary, UNICEF offers a number of resources. The highlight of these is an updated Guide to the Convention that traces the treaty's creation, its implications for the world's children, the full text, and a FAQ. Other offerings at the site...

This UNICEF State of the World's Children report (last reviewed in the December 11, 1998 Scout Report) includes an appeal for a new international coalition on behalf of children. The report also summarizes progress made since the 1990 World Summit for Children and the challenges that remain. Included in the report are a number of photographs, maps, tables, and a glossary. A summary, features (a...