Generation in jeopardy : children in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union / United Nations Children's Fund ; edited by Alexandre Zouev ; with a foreword by Sir Peter Ustinov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

UNICEF.

Contributor:

Zouev, Alexander.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Europe, Eastern--Social conditions.

Children.

Children--Former Soviet republics--Social conditions.

Child welfare--Europe, Eastern.

Child welfare.

Child welfare--Former Soviet republics.

Social conditions.

Europe, Eastern--Social conditions--1989-.

Europe, Eastern.

Eastern Europe.

Former Soviet republics--Social conditions.

Former Soviet republics.

Physical Description:

xvii, 206 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [1999]

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.

Contents:

I Social Conditions

1 The social and economic cost of transition

2 Child health

3 Environment

4 Nutrition

5 Education

II Child Protection

6 Children on the front line: Child refugees and victims of war

7 Child neglect, abuse, and exploitation

8 Child labor

9 Juvenile crime

III Different Faces of the Transition

10 Children in the republics of former Yugoslavia

11 Central Europe

12 Children of the Baltic countries

13 Southeastern Europe

14 The Slavic countries

15 The Caucasus countries

16 The Central Asian Republics and Kazakhstan

17 The Aral Sea disaster zone

18 Minority groups.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-192) and index.

ISBN:

0765601214

0765602903

OCLC:

38542692