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Advancing Children's Rights: A Guide for Civil Society Organisations on how to engage with the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child [Third Edition]
This is the third edition of the publication "Advancing Children's Rights- A Guide for Civil Society Organisations' on how to engage with the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child", published by Save the Children Sweden and P
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Child Protection and Child Friendly Justice: Lessons Learned from Programmes in Ethiopia. Executive Summary
This publication is a summary of a research study report entitled " Introducing Child Protection and Child Friendly Justice in a Society with Complex Socioeconomic Challenges: Experiences and Lessons Learnt from Ethiopia, 2011". It highlights the interven
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A Focus on Child Protection within Social Protection Systems: Transforming Children’s lives
This study examines the relationship between social protection programmes and systems for child protection. It proposes that social protection programmes should become much more sensitive to child protection issues by including elements which strengthen a
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Child rights governance and poverty reduction measures: what are the connections?
This study takes the view that child poverty is a multi-dimensional phenomenon which becomes entrenched in contexts where governance is ineffective and unresponsive to children. For example, corruption amongst public officials can result in children being
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High Level Forum on Child Rights and the Private Sector in Zambia
On December 7, 2010 Save the Children Sweden- in partnership with the Embassy of Sweden, the Zambian Global Compact Network and UNICEF- hosted a high level forum to discuss child rights and the private sector. The meeting, which brought together participa
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Pre Consultation on Children's Rights and Business Principle in Zambia
On June 24, 2010 Save the Children, UNICEF and UN Global Compact launched a consultative process to develop a set of Principles offering concrete guidance on what businesses can do to respect and support children’s rights. Recognizing the important contri
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Hands, minds and hearts. An examination of the relationship between child poverty, child rights and inequality
This study, published by Save the Children Sweden, explores current literature and ideas concerning child poverty, inequality and child rights. It begins with a consideration of how poverty has been defined, identified and measured and concludes that chil
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Preventing the Preventable: An analysis of CRC concluding observations on the right to survival
How the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child treats newborn and child survival in eleven countries with high levels of child mortality: Bangladesh, China, DRC, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Uganda. Although newbo
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Là, où commence la protection: L’approche à base communautaire pour promouvoir les droits de l’enfant dans les situations d’urgence en Afrique
This report is a synthesis of Save the Children Sweden’s work in emergencies in Africa, and it provides a useful overview of the community-based approach being used in emergencies to protect children and to promote their rights, both in theory and practic
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Consultation on Children’s Rights and Business Principles Initiative
On 24 June 2010, UNICEF, the UN Global Compact and Save the Children launched a process to develop a set of Principles offering concrete guidance on what business can do to respect and support children’s rights. Currently, no such comprehensive Principles
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How Business Affects Us: A Report of Children’s Consultations, Children’s Rights and Business Principles
On 24 June 2010 Save the Children, UNICEF and UN Global Compact launched a consultative process to develop a set of Principles offering concrete guidance on what businesses can do to respect and support children’s rights. Recognizing the important contrib
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First Line of Protection: Community-based approaches to promote children’s rights in emergencies in Africa
This report is a synthesis of Save the Children Sweden’s work in emergencies in Africa, and it provides a useful overview of the community-based approach being used in emergencies to protect children and to promote their rights, both in theory and practic