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The State of The World's Children 2000

This report summarizes progress made since the adoption of the "Convention on the Rights of the Child" (November 1989) in meeting the goals established at the 1990 World Summit for Children and discusses four barriers to full human development:

• HIV/AIDS
• Armed conflict and violence
• Poverty
• Gender discrimination

The report offers compelling arguments about the power of early care for children, quality of education, human rights for women, and children and their development. Statistical data for 193 countries are included.

Available in English, French, and Spanish

Published in 2000, 124 pages
ISBN 92-806-635388
$12.95 U.S.

Published by the United Nations.
Contact by email at: publications@un. org
Toll-free from some countries: 1-800-253-9646

http://www.un.org/Pubs/unicef/e00swc.htm

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World Press Review

This magazine is published as a nonprofit educational service to foster the international exchange of information. It contains material published in the press outside of the United States. Correspondents located around the world forward these articles for translation and excerpting.

Published monthly; English language

United States and its territories: $26.97 U.S. for one year
Canada: $30.97 U.S. for one year
Other countries: $46.97 U.S. for one year (air-speeded)

World Press Review
The Stanley Foundation
700 Broadway (3rd Floor)
New York, New York 10003 U.S.
Telephone: 212-982-8880

http://www.worldpress.org

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Connections: the Newsletter of the Commonwealth of Learning

The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is an intergovernmental organisation that encourages the development and sharing of open learning/ distance education knowledge, resources and technologies, and assists developing nations to improve access to quality education and training. COL's CONNECTIONS newsletter is supplemented by another periodical called EdTECH NEWS. These may be downloaded from the web site.

Overviews of recent issues are as follows:

February 2000 - Connections, Vol. 5, No. 1 - *Leaders see Commonwealth of Learning as 'ideal instrument' to meet their needs; * Commonwealth of Learning and knowledge management; * Pacific Ministers to discuss skills development; * DFID funds Commonwealth of Learning initiative in Mozambique; and * EdTech News -- Education "sunny side up. Eight pages, 765 Kb, PDF download.

October 1999 - Connections, Vol. 4, No. 3 - * Using community learning centres to improve reading skills; and * EdTech News -- Telecommunications and government.

In addition, the Commonwealth of Learning is developing:

• International guidelines for franchising educational programmes
• International guidelines for remote delivery of courses
• A sample style guide for writers/developers of distance education materials
  

http://www.col.org

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