1st Edition

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

By Unicef, Alexander Zouev Copyright 1998
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Part one Social conditions; Chapter 1 The social and economic cost of transition; Chapter 2 Child health; Chapter 3 Environment; Chapter 4 Nutrition; Chapter 5 Education; Part two Child protection; Chapter 6 Children on the front line: Child refugees and victims of war; Chapter 7 Child neglect, abuse, and exploitation; Chapter 8 Child labor; Chapter 9 Juvenile crime; Part three Different faces of the transition; Chapter 10 Children in the republics of former Yugoslavia; Chapter 11 Central Europe; Chapter 12 Children of the Baltic countries; Chapter 13 Southeastern Europe; Chapter 14 Belarus, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine; Chapter 15 The Caucasus countries; Chapter 16 The Central Asian republics and Kazakhstan; Chapter 17 The Aral Sea disaster zone; Chapter 18 Minority groups;

    Biography

    Unicef, ; Zouev, Alexander