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Migration and Displacement of Children in Latin America and the Caribbean
During 2016-2017, 300,000 unaccompanied and displaced children from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala were detained in the United States. The migration is primarily due to violence and poverty in their home countries. Save the Children is actively work
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Experiences on Child Rights Governance (CRG) in Latin America and the Caribbean 2017-2018
In Latin America and the Caribbean, as in other regions of the world, Save the Children and a broad spectrum of partners have developed different experiences about how governance can be organized in such a way that it promotes, respects and fulfills child
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Linking Social Rights to Active Citizenship for the Most Vulnerable: The role of rights and accountability in the ‘making’ and ‘shaping’ of social protection
The rise of social protection into the limelight of social policy has opened up space for understanding how it can act as a key interface between states and citizens.This paper rethinks social protection through the lens of citizenship. It considers how t
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"This Isn't the Life for You": Masculinities and nonviolence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Low-income, young, black men are overwhelmingly affected by various forms of violence in Rio de Janeiro. This research report, published by Promundo, examines the often under-researched relationship between this violence and gender norms. In particular, t
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End Violence Against Children Now
The year 2015 has witnessed extensive progress towards universal prohibition of physical and humiliating punishment of children, more than half of UN member states have now achieved legal prohibition in all settings or have expressed a committment to doin
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Global Report on Internal Displacement 2016
The heightened focus on the hundreds of thousands of refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants who have put their lives at risk to reach Europe has also awakened attention to the phenomenon of displacement. The Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) a
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"She Goes With Me in My Boat": Child marriage and adolescent marriage in Brazil
Despite the high numbers in Brazil of women married or cohabitating by the age of 15, little to no research on the topic exists. From 2013 to 2015, Promundo conducted exploratory research in two states in Brazil with funding from the Ford Foundation. The
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Rio Stories
In Rio Stories you meet five young people living in the favela Maré in Rio de Janeiro. Children growing up in Maré face high levels of poverty, limited public services, social and economic exclusion and human rights abuses. Maré has suffered decades of dr
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Haciendo visible lo invisible: Aproximaciones, experiencias y buenas práctica para la protección de niñas, niños y adolescentes contra la trata con fines de explotación laboral en Mercosur y Centroamérica
Haciendo visible lo invisible (Making visible the invisible) is a manual that includes approaches, experiences, and best practices for the protection of children and adolescents from trafficking for labor exploitation in Central America and Mercosur.
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Case studies on UNICEF programming in Child Protection
Through its child protection work, UNICEF supports countries in addressing the factors that expose children to violence, exploitation and abuse, both during emergencies and in the context of long term development. These case studies illustrate how UNICEF
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Child Exploitation and the FIFA World Cup: A review of risks and protective interventions
A report published by Brunel University, London, entitled “Child Exploitation and the FIFA World Cup: A review of risks and protective interventions”. This research was commissioned by the Child Abuse Programme at Oak Foundation and forms part of its effo
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Economic Playgrounds: Comparing the lives of children in G20 countries
As the world's premier economic forum, the G20 has the power to change the lives of billions of people currently excluded from global progress, a significant portion of whom are children. Save the Children commends their recent goal to lift collective eco