27 August 2002: CRINMAIL 404: Special Edition on the World Summit on Sustainable Development - Johannesburg 2002 **************************************************** CRIN will be producing a series of CRINMAILs throughout the duration of this important event and is very keen to receive information about recent publications, including papers, reports, and websites, in addition to news and projects that link the issues discussed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development with children. We would especially like to hear from CRIN members, and other CRINMAIL subscribers, in the South. To contribute, complete the form at the bottom of this document and email us at info@crin.org. Please note that we are unable to respond to emails addressed to crinmail_english@domeus.co.uk **************************************************** - EDUCATION: Education Now to Build a Better Future [briefing paper] - PRIVATE SECTOR: Children are Victims of Privatisation [news] - HEALTH: 20 Million Will Die if Summit Fails on Water and Sanitation [news] - SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Invest in Children: Advance Sustainable Development [online resource] - PRIVATE SECTOR: Earth Summit Charities Outraged Over 'Junk Food' Pacts [news] - EARTH SUMMIT NEWSROUND: Children?s BBC [website] **************************************************** - EDUCATION: Education Now to Build a Better Future [briefing paper] No matter how many policies are agreed in Johannesburg to reduce poverty, achieve the Millennium Development Goals, sustain the planet and create a better tomorrow, all of them will ultimately fail unless governments and international institutions enact bold new measures to get children back into school today. Governments must provide a quality education free of charge to every girl and boy. Donors must back their efforts with the extra USD $5bn per year needed to launch the EFA Action Plan, which has been endorsed by UNESCO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the G7 Education Task Force, as well as developing country finance and education ministers. For the full report, go to: www.campaignforeducation.org/_html/2002-docs/08-brief-joburg/frameset.shtml ---------------------------------------- - PRIVATE SECTOR: Children are Victims of Privatisation [news] [21 August 2002] - The British charity Save the Children said yesterday that increased involvement by the private sector in supplying basic services would lead to price rises that would harm the world's poorest children. In a report released before the Earth Summit opens in Johannesburg on Monday, Save the Children UK pointed to the negative effects of opening up to multinationals the ownership of public services such as water distribution in poor countries. For the full story, go to: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=326262 [source: The Independent] ---------------------------------- - HEALTH: 20 Million Will Die if Summit Fails on Water and Sanitation [news] [27 August 2002 ] - Twenty million children will die in the developing world over the next 10 years if governments attending the World Summit on Sustainable Development fail to agree to an ambitious target to halve the number of people (2.4 billion) who currently lack access to adequate sanitation. In the run-up to the Summit some countries ? led by the USA ? have dragged their feet over the target which is aimed at addressing a crisis which sees a child dying every 15 seconds from water and sanitation-related diseases. Early signs at the Summit are that the USA is still resisting signing up to the sanitation target. For the full story; go to: http://www.tearfund.org/homepage/index.asp ---------------------------------------- - SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Invest in Children: Advance Sustainable Development [online resource] As the world meets on the critical issues of sustainable development, six countries in southern Africa are reeling from cumulative shocks and crises that have put nearly 13 million people at risk of dying. More than half of those at risk are children and 2.4 million of those children are under the age of five. The disaster's multiple facets include searing drought and crop failures, entrenched poverty and the ravages of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The result is a food crisis, a water crisis, a health crisis and an education crisis all at once, with each element feeding on the others. For the full story, go to: http://www.unicef.org/events/wssd/index.html ------------------------------------- - PRIVATE SECTOR: Earth Summit Charities Outraged Over 'Junk Food' Pacts [news] United Nations plans to involve multinational companies including McDonald's and Monsanto in projects to save the world's poorest countries from environmental degradation provoked a bitter row at the Earth Summit yesterday. Charities rounded on the initiative, which has the support of Britain and America, saying they were "outraged" by a proposed partnership between the fast-food chain and UNICEF, the UN children's fund. The plan is intended by the summit's UN organisers to be complementary to new multilateral agreements on sanitation, health, fish stocks and energy which America and its allies are reluctant to sign. Britain and America are supporting setting up international partnerships between business, rich governments and poor countries. The partnerships also represent a fallback position for the summit in case the political stages collapse - like at last year's summit on racism in Durban - so that at least it can be said to have achieved something. [source: The Daily Telegraph] ------------------------------------------- - EARTH SUMMIT NEWSROUND: Children?s BBC [website] This online resource for children provides an in-depth guide for children on the summit. Answering questions from global warming to the conservation of endangered animals and GM foods, this is an excellent online teaching and news resource for children. Go to: http://www.news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/world/earth_summit/new sid_2202000/2202675.stm **************************************************** The CRINMAIL is an electronic mailing list of the Child Rights Information Network (CRIN). 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