Investing in The Children of The Islamic World
İÇİNDEKİLERCONTENTSFOREWORD: CHILDREN FIRST..................................... OVERVIEW.................................................... The Millennium Development Goals and 'A World Fit for Children' commitments The situation of children in the Islamic world......................... Constraints and challenges...................................... PROMOTING HEALTHY LIVES...................................... Under-five mortality............................................ Nutrition.................................................... Safe motherhood............................................. Immunization ................................................ Polio....................................................... Clean water and sanitation...................................... Mobilizing resources for health................................... providing quality education.................................. Access to primary education..................................... Gender parity................................................ Mobilizing resources for quality education........................... CHILD PROTECTION............................................. The challenge of protection...................................... Birth registration.............................................. Protection against armed conflict................................. Protection against sexual exploitation.............................. Child marriage................................................ Child labour.................................................. Female genital mutilation/cutting.................................. COMBATING HIV/AIDS........................................... Rates of prevalence............................................ Knowledge and behaviour....................................... Orphans and vulnerable children.................................. Strategies for combating HIV/AIDS................................ ARE WE FULFILLING OUR COMMITMENT TO CHILDREN?................ Investing in children............................................ Follow-up mechanisms......................................... Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Optional Protocols . National legal reform........................................... Institutional reform............................................. An opportunity to deliver on commitments.......................... ANNEXES 1. OIC members, by subregion................................... 2. Status of National Plans of Action (NPAs) and other follow-ups to the Special Session on Children................................... 3. Resolution on Child Care and Protection in the Islamic World.......... 4. The Cairo Declaration of Religious Leaders in Arab States in Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic.......................... STATISTICAL TABLES 1. Background indicators....................................... 2. Healthy lives............................................... 3. HIV/AIDS, education, protection and economic indicators............ NOTES .......................................................  |
