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Girls on the Move Research Series
The dream of a better future makes millions of girls leave their homes each year. Every girl carries a powerful story- why she migrates, the risks she faces, and the vision of a future she heads toward. It is important that girls' stories are heard. Girls
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Living in Chains: Shackling of people with psychosocial disabilities worldwide
Hundreds of thousands of people, both adult and children around the globe with mental health conditions have been shackled at least once in their lives. Inadequate support and mental health services, as well as stigma concerning people with psychosocial d
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Our Research, Our Rights: Ending violence against children through the lens of child researchers from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Romania and Sierra Leone
The aim of this child-led research project was to understand children's and young people’s perceptions about violence against children as described within the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) that seeks to end violence against children. The project was
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Children and Young People’s Voices in Times of COVID-19: Voices of children and young people in the United Kingdom (Milton Keynes) and World Vision International’s young leaders programme
This research is part of World Vision’s global campaign ‘It Takes A World to End Violence Against Children’ which seeks to see an end to all forms of violence against children everywhere. We gathered 110 children and young people online from 14 countries
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Analise de Educacao Infantil em Fortaleza: Orcamento e direito a creche
A Constituição Federal de 1988 assegurou o direito de crianças (0 a 3 anos) ao acesso à creche, estabelecendo o Estado como agente garantidor. O Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (ECA), por sua vez, reafirma o acesso à creche por meninos e meninas de 0
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La Inversión Pública en Niñas, una Asignatura Pendiente para Crear Sociedades Equitativas
A pesar de los progresos realizados en los últimos años en lo que respecta al aumento de la inversión en los niños, sigue habiendo problemas cuando se trata de asegurar una perspectiva de género en los procesos de planificación presupuestaria. Así lo demu
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Small Voices, Big Dreams 2019: Violence against children as explained by children
No child is completely immune to violence. Each year, nearly one billion children are afflicted by some type of physical, sexual, emotional violence or neglect, across different geographical, socioeconomic and cultural barriers. Listening to children and
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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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Norsk Hydro Brazil's Journey Towards Social Responsibility
Norsk Hydro entered Brazil in 2011 with a long history of fostering healthy communities that grew up around its operations in Norway. The company therefore had no small sense of the responsibilities of being an actor with an enormous impact on the lives o
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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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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