Exploitation of children in slavery and armed conflict, 2001

Submitted by: ICW Committee of GB The National Council of Women: concerned by reports of children forced into servitude or slavery in certain countries, including the increasing abduction of children in areas of armed conflict to serve as child soldiers, aware of our...

Care of the elderly, 2001

Submitted by:  Birmingham Branch The National Council of Women: welcomes the National Service Framework (NSF) for Older People, and calls upon Her Majesty’s Government to provide strategies and finance to ensure that the proposed eight NSF standards are...

Protecting our children, 2004

Submitted by: Science and Technology Policy Committee The National Council of Women, is concerned at the increasing number of children with disabling illnesses, including asthma, autism spectrum, deafness, diabetes, foetal alcohol syndrome, hyperactivity and obesity,...

The rise in sexually-transmitted infections, 2007

Submitted by: The Health Committee and the National Association for Nurses in Contraception and Sexual Health. The National Council of Women, aware that Great Britain has the highest rate of underage pregnancy in Europe, and that sexually-transmitted infections are on...