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Resources from the
United Nations
Resources and links on child development, children's
rights, the family and marriage from the United Nations.
 The International Year of the Family
The tenth anniversary of the International
Year of the Family constitutes an important opportunity to
give a new impetus to the follow- up of the Year. In its
resolution 54/124, the General Assembly reaffirmed the importance
of the follow-up to the Year and of the observance of its
tenth anniversary.
 The UN and the Rights of Children
UNESCO efforts to identify Universal Values
 The
last decade of our century is witness to a rising
demand for a universal ethics. With the relativism of
of recent decades, there is an increasingly search for
universal values and principles that could serve as
the basis for collective efforts toward peace and
development, as well as for peaceful and productive interaction among nations
and societies.
In Medium-Term
Strategy: 1996-2002, a document which sets forth the
overall direction of the activities of UNESCO, the need
for a new approach to these problems is clearly stated. "The
main problems affecting the future of the human race are
tending to become more interconnected, and at the same
time more widespread. Dealing with them requires a minimum
of common understanding and shared values. In a multipolar
world of heightened individualism and a possibly unprecedented
splintering of perceptions, it is more than ever necessary
to look for the acknowledgement, or rather the emergence
of a common substratum of values which would make economically,
ecologically, socially and culturally viable coexistence
possible on a world-scale".
 Family
Matters
Family
Matters is a bimonthly circular letter prepared by the Programme
on the Family of the Division of Social Policy and Development
of the United Nations Secretariat, with information about
activities related to the family around the globe.
Other UN Family Resources
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