Generation in Jeopardy: Children at Risk in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Children at Risk in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

by Unicef

• ISBN13: 9780765601216
• ISBN10: 0765601214
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-03-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This disturbing volume probes beneath the rhetoric about system change in the transition societies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to examine the impact of political, social, and economic dislocation, ethnic conflict and civil war on the most population: children.

Table of Contents

LIST OF CHARTS, GRAPHS, AND TABLES	ix	(4)
FOREWORD	xiii	(2)
Sir Peter Ustinov
PREFACE	xv	(2)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xvii
PART ONE Social Conditions: Children's welfare and families' access to basic social services	3	(54)
CHAPTER 1 The social and economic cost of transition	3	(16)
CHAPTER 2 Child health	19	(14)
CHAPTER 3 Environment	33	(8)
CHAPTER 4 Nutrition	41	(8)
CHAPTER 5 Education	49	(8)
PART TWO Child protection: Children in especially difficult circumstances	57	(32)
CHAPTER 6 Children on the front line: Child refugees and victims of war	57	(10)
CHAPTER 7 Child neglect, abuse, and exploitation	67	(8)
CHAPTER 8 Child labor	75	(6)
CHAPTER 9 Juvenile crime	81	(8)
PART THREE Different faces of the transition: Area highlights	89	(82)
CHAPTER 10 Children in the republics of former Yugoslavia	89	(8)
CHAPTER 11 Central Europe	97	(8)
CHAPTER 12 Children of the Baltic countries	105	(10)
CHAPTER 13 Southeastern Europe	115	(12)
CHAPTER 14 Belarus, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine	127	(14)
CHAPTER 15 The Caucasus countries	141	(8)
CHAPTER 16 The Central Asian republics and Kazakhstan	149	(8)
CHAPTER 17 The Aral Sea disaster zone	157	(6)
CHAPTER 18 Minority groups	163	(8)
AFTERWORD	171	(4)
GLOSSARY	175	(4)
REFERENCES	179	(14)
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES	193	(3)
INDEX	196