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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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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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"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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"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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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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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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Seminario Internacional: Combatiendo la Trata con fines de Explotación Laboral, Protegiendo a las niñas, niños y adolescentes
This publication registers the agenda and discussion of an international seminar betwwen Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Uruguay, around child labour exploitation. The international seminar was proposed to set fo
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Children's Rights in the Digital Age: A download from children around the world
Undertaken with the aim of communicating children’s views at the Day of General Discussion on children’s rights in the digital age, which took place on 12 September 2014, this project was a joint effort between the Young and Well Cooperative Research Cent
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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
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Program H/M/D: A Toolkit for action. Engaging Youth to Achieve Gender Equity
"Toolkit for action: Engaging Youth to Achieve Gender Equity", produced by Promundo in partnership with ECOS, Instituto PAPAI, and Salud y Género. The Toolkit aims to engage youth to achieve gender equity. It is based on 10 years of evidence and experien