Juvenile justice documents Also, as part of this programme, UNICEF published in Russian in early November two useful documents on juvenile justice. The UNICEF Digest on Juvenile Justice gives an overview of standards and practise as collected by the International Child Development Centre in Florence. The Collection of International Standards on Juvenile Justice is a practical booklet containing all UN official documents on the issue, as well as the text of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The latter will be distributed to all youth police officers in the Russian Federation as part of the UNICEF-Ministry of Internal Affairs agreement.Long lasting breastfeeding promoted by UNICEF Young mothers in the Russian town of Electrostal, Moscow Region, are being helped to overcome possible breastfeeding problems and encouraged to breastfeed for a minimum of two years. |
A series of Lactation
Management Courses are being organised for this purpose by the UNICEF Moscow Office both
for Electrostal health workers, as well as for young mothers and their closest relatives
(husbands, mother-in-laws, etc.). The town was chosen for the project because it has a
«baby friendly» hospital. All trained physicians, and half of trained mothers, plan to
participate in the work of support groups for young mothers. A special instruction manual
was devised to help trainees. Also trained young mothers who work in support groups have
decided, on the advice of a health worker, to visit those mothers who have breastfeeding
troubles, and try to help them to use the experience and knowledge they acquired from the
courses.
UNICEF lactation management courses teach young mothers to breast/era lueir hahies up to two vears. |
Culture of Peace to be promoted in Russia The Russian Ministry of Defence and federal law enforcing agencies, working together with other federal ministries and various peace organisations, will participate in a conference organised under the umbrella of the UNESCO pilot project «0n the Way to the Peace Culture». The project is directed at eventually excluding wars and violence and promoting peaceful solutions when dealing with international and domestic problems. It is also a response to the UN General Assembly decision to mark the year 2000 as «The International Year of the Culture of Peace». The Russian UNESCO National Commission is planning various educational and cultural activities (conferences, seminars, publication of books and brochures, etc.) which will help improve racial understanding, political and religious tolerance, adherence to human rights and democracy. Peace Culture Centers are being set up in Moscow, Samara and other Russian cities. Details of the project can be obtained from Valery Sakharov (tel.: 7-095 290 0643, fax: 202 1083).Lake Baikal is still in danger Ulan Ude, the capital of Buryatia (Eastern Siberia), was the venue of a UNESCO initiated conference where over 40 Russian scientists presented their findings on the current state of Baikal. The world's deepest lake, which contains a quarter of the planet's fresh water and is officially included in the Earth's Natural Heritage list, is negatively affected today by human economic activities. Recommendations presented at the conference will serve as a basis for future programmes for the successful preservation of the lake. The conference was the first in a series of UNESCO-supported scientific gatherings within the framework of the Convention on Cultural and Natural Heritage which Russia joined in 1989. |
Save children from TV violence «Children and Violence on TV» was the subject of a «Round table» discussion held under the auspices of UNESCO in Moscow last September. The discussion was the first among other events planned in Russia within a long-range international programme started in 1995 under the aegis of UNESCO designed to protect children's psychology from the effects of aggressively growing violence on TV screens, in computer games and on the Internet. Participants of the discussion -experts from the Russian Ecology of Childhood Fund, the TV Problem Studies Institute (A.Khramov), and the Center for Social Problems of Education (V.Sobkin) - agreed that legal prohibition of violence scenes, or attempts to bar them by technical means will not work. The best way to limit TV screen violence is to develop programmes, video films and computer games which will be attractive for kids without the fights, murders or other gruesome scenes. Such work should be done by responsible TV and video professionals in coordination with leading education specialists and child psychologists. |
