Growing evidence indicates that large proportions of children around the world experience physical, sexual and emotional violence every year, with enormous implications for human rights, public health and economic and social development.1 Over the last five years, national governments and Together f...or Girls – a global public-private partnership comprising UNICEF,
other United Nations (UN) agencies, the United States (US) Government and various private sector agencies – have worked to mobilize and sustain a global movement to end violence against children, with a focus on sexual violence against girls.
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                                                                An international field study by African and German  theologicans and health workers. 
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                This paper has been commissioned by RedR to identify gaps in skills, technology, and knowledge in urban humanitarian response in order to inform RedR’s project Ready to Respond which is looking to address these gaps in two specific areas:
    Water supply, sanitation, and hygiene;     Shelter res...ponse to earthquakes
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                                                                Exposure draft for comment October 2013
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                This new publication presents the continuing and emerging challenges to children’s environmental health.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic and Portugues
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Regional action plan 2019-2023
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Consultancy to take forward the International Health Partnership
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Guidance has been updated on a number of chemicals: asbestos, bentazone, chromium, iodine, manganese, microcystins, nickel, silver, tetrachloroethene and trichloroethene. Guidance has also been added for chemicals not previously assessed in the Guidelines: anatoxin-a and analogues, cylindrospermopsi...ns and saxitoxins. The new guidance on organotins has replaced the prior guidance focused on dialkyltins. With these updates, the guideline values for tetrachloroethene and trichloroethene have been revised while new guideline values for cylindrospermopsins, manganese, microcystins, and saxitoxins have been established .
Updated information on cyanobacteria has been included, introducing an alert level framework for early-warning and to guide short-term management responses. Guidance has also been updated in the sections on adequacy of water supply, climate change, emergencies, food production and processing, and radiological aspects, particularly on managing radionuclides when exceeding WHO screening values and guidance levels.
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                                                                This Rapid Communication aims to inform national TB programmes and other stakeholders about the key implications of the latest evidence on the use of specific molecular assays as initial diagnostic tests of pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB and RR-TB, in adults and children.