'This Manual presents the definitions of trafficking in human beings and smuggling of migrants as well as general guidelines on investigation and prosecution of cases related to trafficking in human beings, with a focus on cooperation between ECOWAS Member States. This Manual is to be used as reference material and in training activities under the project.'

Research Publications from the Indian Institute of Ahmedabad, one of India's premier business schools.  The Research and Publications Committee is responsible for the formulation of the overall policies governing the Institute's research and publications activities. The Committee undertakes processing of research and publications proposals submitted by faculty members or referred to the Commi more...

The Future of Children seeks to promote effective policies and programs for children by providing policymakers, service providers, and the media with timely, objective information based on the best available research.The Future of Children is a collaboration of The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and The Brookings Institution.

In many countries throughout the world, going to school is a privilege. This is especially true for girls. In the developing world, more than 113 million children—nearly two thirds of them girls—don't have access to a formal education. Yet investment in girls' education is the single most effective way to reduce poverty.

Critics contend that a holistic approach to improving youth reproductive health – one that focuses on social, economic and cultural systems as well as health care – takes too much time and costs too much money to be practical at a national level. But new findings from the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) suggest otherwise. A two-year integrated program in 176 villages in Bihar and Jharkhand, India, resulted in significant changes in youth’s actions and decisions, including more...

Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) continue to be a driving force in today’s economic, social and political development of societies around the world. Yet studies in ICT and their impact on the Arab States remain scarce. UNIFEM Arab States Regional Office integrated the theme of ICTs in its Economic Security Program in the year 2000, and since then the program has been dedicated to implementing ICT projects that aim to provide economic empowerment opportunities for women. Addit more...

As efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 intensify, developed and developing countries have agreed to new partnerships and aid modalities, designed to align aid to nationally determined development priorities, channel diverse aid sources into direct support to national budgets, and ensure greater stability and predictability in aid flows.

The 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness outlines five guiding principles for greater aid effectiveness: ownership, alignme more...

The goal of the UN Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) is to narrow the gender gap in primary and secondary education and to ensure that, by 2015, all children complete primary schooling, with girls and boys having equal access to all levels of education. Having made notable progress at global level, the decision of UNGEI’s Global Advisory Committee (GAC) to focus on the regional and country levels will help boost current efforts towards gender equality in education and beyond in a designate more...

GirlsEd-Net is an online knowledge network that aims to facilitate dialogue and information-sharing among interested individuals and organizations engaged in issues around girls’ education. Participants are encouraged to disseminate information about UNGEI to concerned staff in their organisations and n the field and to encourage them to register with us.

Some of the services and activities offered by GirlsEd-Net are: * eDiscussions: Interactive, lively debates on selected topics; * nformat more...

Education experts representing United Nations agencies, donor countries, national governments and non-governmental organizations are meeting in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu today to discuss issues related to gender equality in education in the Asia-Pacific region.
Representatives from Camfed, UNICEF, the UK Department for International Development (DFID), Nepal's Ministry of Education and the children of Nepal gave opening remarks.

'The low status of women and girls in our society is more...