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UNICEF

  Title: Assessing Learning Achievement / Elaine Furniss.
Publisher: New York: UNICEF, 2003.
Description: 22 p.
Language: English.
Web link: http://www.unicef.org/lifeskills/files/AssessingLearningAchievement.doc
  Title: Education for Development : A Teacher’s Resource for Global Learning / Susan Fountain.
Publisher: New York: UNICEF, Education for Development Section, 1995.
Languages: English, French.
Title: Education Rights and Minorities.
Publisher: Florence: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 1994.
Description: 40 p.
Language: English.
Web link: http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/minorities_rights.pdf
Title: The Evolving Capacities of the Child / Gerison Lansdown.
Publisher: Florence: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2005.
Description: Innocenti Insight, 11, 62 p.
Languages: English, French, Spanish.
Web link: http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/evolving-eng.pdf
Title: A Human Rights-Based Approach to Education for All: a framework for the realization of children's right to education and rights within education.
Publisher: New York, Paris: UNESCO/UNICEF, 2007.
Description: 146 p.
Languages: English, French, Spanish.
Web link: http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_42104.html
Title: A Human Rights Approach to Development Programming / Urban Jonsson.
Publisher: New York: UNICEF, 2003.
Description: iii, 210 p., charts, graphs, tables.
Language: English.
Web link: http://www.unicef.org/rightsresults/files/HRBDP_Urban_Jonsson_April_2003.pdf
Title: Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child / Rachel Hodgkin and Peter Newell.
Publisher: New York: UNICEF, 2002.
Description: 784 p.
Languages: English, French, Spanish.
Web link: http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_5598.html
Title: It’s Only Right! A practical guide to learning about the Convention on the Rights of the Child / Susan Fountain.
Publisher: New York: UNICEF, 1993.
Description: 77 p.
Language: English.
Web link: http://www.unicef.org/teachers/protection/only_right.htm
Title: Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic Crises and Early Reconstruction.
Publisher: INEE (UNICEF, UNESCO, UNHCR, Save the Children, IRC, NRC, CCF, CARE), 2004.
Description: 94 p.
Language: English.
Web link: http://www.ineesite.org/minimum_standards/MSEE_report.pdf
Title: Promoting Children’s Participation in Democratic Decision-Making / Gerison Lansdown.
Publisher: Florence: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2001.
Description: Innocenti Insight, 6, 53 p.
Language: English.
Web link: http://www.unicef-icdc.org/publications/pdf/insight6.pdf
Title: The 'Rights' Start to Life: A statistical analysis of birth registration.
Publication: New York: UNICEF, 2005.
Description: 35 p.
Language: English.
Web link: http://www.unicef.org/publications/files/BirthReg10a_rev.pdf
Title: A School for Children with Rights: the Significance of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child for modern education policy / Thomas Hammarberg.
Publisher: Florence: UNICEF, Innocenti Research Centre, 1998.
Description: 44 p.
Language: English.
Web link: http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/il2e.pdf
Title: The State of the World’s Children 1999: Education.
Publisher: New York: UNICEF, 1998.
Description: 131 p.
Language: English.
Web link: http://www.unicef.org/sowc99/pdf.htm

Title: The State of the World's Children 2008.
Publication: New York: UNICEF, 2007.
Description: 156 p.
Languages: English, French and Spanish.

Web link: [English] [French] [Spanish]

Title: A League Table of Educational Disadvantage in Rich Nations.
Publication: Florence: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2002.
Description: Innocenti Report Card No. 4, 40 p.
Languages: English, Italian.
Web link: [English] [Italian]
Title: The Two Faces of Education in Ethnic Conflict: Towards a Peacebuilding Education for Children / ed. by Kenneth D. Bush and Diana Saltarelli.
Publisher: Florence: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2000.
Description: 54 p.
Language: English.
Web link: http://www.unicef-irc.org/cgi-bin/unicef/download_insert.sql?ProductID=269
Websites
Title: Teachers Talking about Learning.
Description: Website.
“Teachers Talking about Learning” has been designed to support the professional development of teachers and educators, and to assist them with practical advice related to resources, classroom activities and other information to develop childfriendly learning environments. The site is structured around three main sections:
• Explore ideas by reading and reflection;
• Discuss issues by talking with peers; and
• Take action by doing activities.
Language: English.
Web link: http://www.unicef.org/teachers/
Title: Voices of Youth.
Description: Website.
This site invites young visitors to discuss ways in which the world can become a place where the rights of every child are protected, that is, the right to live in peace, to have decent shelter, to be healthy and well nourished, to have clean water, to play, to go to school, and to be protected from violence, abuse and exploitation. It provides an opportunity to think about and give views on current global issues, a series of interactive global learning projects and a forum for teachers, trainers and educational planners. This website includes sections such as the Big Picture about children’s rights, Fact Sheet on children’s rights, Children’s Declarations, Rights Timeline (starting in 1989), Know Your Rights, the CRC, Promises, What Young People Want, Participate!, a link to the Ayiti on-line game, Are You Old Enough? (to work, to go to war, etc.), photo journals, quizzes, and ongoing on-line polls.
Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish.
Web link: http://www.unicef.org/voy/
Tools
  1. Title: Kids Inclusive
  2. Publisher: New York: UNICEF, 2003
  3. Description: Toolkit
  4. The Kids Inclusive toolkit is structured around the themes of exclusion and discrimination. Simulation exercises and stories from children who have faced exclusion are used to encourage young people to empathise with others who may have lived lives very different from their own. The toolkit offers a choice of more than 40 hours of thought provoking, stimulating activities.
  5. Language: English
    Web link: http://www.unicefdayforchange.org.au/Kids_Inclusive_Introduction.pdf

Title: Stand Up for Children’s Rights
Publisher: Geneva; UNICEF, 2009
Description: A teacher’s guide
This is a teaching resource for all teachers and facilitators working with 11-16 year olds to explore children's rights. It celebrates the Convention on the Rights of the Child, raising awareness of children’s rights and of the 20th anniversary. However, it also recognizes that there is much more work to be done, encouraging young people to explore their rights, to reflect on the extent to which those rights are respected in their communities, and to consider the responsibilities of different individuals and organizations in promoting and protecting children’s rights.
Web link: http://www.unicef.org/rightsite/files/standupfinal.pdf

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