In its consideration of rights in early childhood, the Committee wishes to include all young children at birth and throughout infancy during the preschool years as well as during the transition to school.

A lack of proper nutrition during the first few years of life affected children's intellectual development and ability to learn.

The lowest rates are found among the population with the highest level of education, with neonatal and infant rates of 7 and a child rate of 11, whereas for the population without education these rates are 16, 27 and 48 respectively.

(a) Health promotion during pregnancy and confinement, for infants and small children and health education at school.

Preschool education for the 0 3 age group

Next, as regards preventive administrative measures.

Number of crèches and nurseries and Mother and Child Homes

All the rates are higher in rural areas than in urban ones the neonatal rate is 25 per thousand in rural areas as against 18 per thousand in urban areas the infant rates are 36 and 28 respectively, while the child mortality rates are 43 and 34 respectively.

enterprises Number of children in crèches and nurseries and in Mother and Child Homes Kindergartens

The Committee's working definition of early childhood is all young children at birth and throughout infancy during the preschool years as well as during the transition to school (see paragraph 4 below).

All day school, daycare centres for children and infants

At the age of six months, the baby will be enrolled... in the People's Nursery School.

There is a nationwide programme of community nursery schools, attended by children aged up to 4 years and 11 months who receive comprehensive care.

In fact we do this in individuals of any age, in these different species that is to say from infancies, infancy up to adulthood and old age.

Implementing child rights in early childhood

These include setting up and maintaining kindergartens (crèches, nurseries, orphanages, etc.).

Capacity of crèches and nurseries and Mother and Child Homes

The Convention requires that children, including the very youngest children, be respected as persons in their own right.

Space science is still in its infancy.

States parties are urged to take all possible measures to improve perinatal care for mothers and babies, reduce infant and child mortality, and create conditions that promote the well being of all young children during this critical phase of their lives.

325. Over the whole post war period all pregnant women and women with young children were provided with free medical care (consultations, compulsory vaccination of infants, etc.).

His her right to necessary measures to reduce infant and child mortality rates.

Human rights education of young children should be anchored in everyday issues at home, in childcare centres, in early education programmes and other community settings with which young children can identify.

Kindergartens and mother and child homes can house 36,169 children, with the proportion of children up to three years of age in nurseries being 122.3 per 1,000 children.

Features of early childhood.

Research into early childhood.

Early childhood education.

It can make some people, especially elderly people and infants, very ill.

Infant and under five mortality rates per 1,000 live births by gender and place of residence

The Programme of Action urged that by 2000, under five mortality should be reduced by one third or to a maximum of 70 deaths per 1,000 births in all countries, and that under five mortality should decline to below 45 deaths per 1,000 births in all countries by 2015 (para. 8.16), a goal consistent with the United Nations Millennium Declaration's goal of reducing under five mortality by two thirds between 1990 and 2015.

Azerbaijan was committed to halving infant and child mortality by 2015.

140. Leave for feeding an infant (art. 166 of the Labour Code) can be used by mothers who do not take leave for raising a small child.

Definition of early childhood.

Respecting young children's evolving capacities is crucial for the realization of their rights, and especially significant during early childhood, because of the rapid transformations in children's physical, cognitive, social and emotional functioning, from earliest infancy to the beginnings of schooling.

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In many cases, very little information has been offered about early childhood, with comments limited mainly to child mortality, birth registration and health care.

There are also about 1,090 Private Daycare Centres for Children and Infants in operation (private enterprises).

26 weeks where she is delivered of more than one child on any given confinement and eight weeks where her child is stillborn or dies during the first six weeks of life.

Table 61 Infant life expectancy Male

A regional analysis shows that all the rates are higher on the Pacific Coast, where the neonatal rate is 47 per thousand, the infant rate 61, and the child rate 82.

The early detection programme for infants and small children comprises nine medical examinations to be carried out in the time from birth up until age six on the basis of a fixed schedule.

Human rights education in early childhood.

Training for rights in early childhood.

203. There is evidence of low caloric intake for mothers during pregnancy and lactation, with low birth weight rates and early stunting in children under 2 years of age.

Adoption 50. Another cause of trafficking, especially of babies and very young children, is intercountry adoption.