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Country risk reduction profile: Disaster Risk Reduction in China
Natural disasters occur frequently in China, affecting more than 200 million people every year. These include floods, earthquakes, and droughts. In the wake of the Sichuan Earthquake in 2008, which brought great trial to the people of Sichuan and China as
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Improving the Health of Women & Children Around the World by 2015
The MDG Health Alliance works in partnership with UN agencies, the private sector, nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, and others to support country efforts to accelerate progress toward achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goal
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They Are Also Parents: A Study on migrant workers with left-behind children in China
More than 80 percent of Chinese migrant workers separated from their children feel inadequate as parents because of the limited role they play in supporting their children's education and overall emotional development. The report They are also parents, re
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Girl Insights Report For Building a Better World. "I know. I want. I Dream
In 2009, ICRW published Girls Speak: A New Voice in Global Development as the fourth report of the Girls Count report series. Four years later, researchers supported by the Nike Foundation asked more than 500 girls from 14 countries to share their insight
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Gender Inequality in Education in China: A Meta-regression Analysis
This article, through a quantitative review of a large amount of literature on gender education differentials, explores the question of whether or not gender inequality has improved in China over the past 30 years. Although the article's results suggest t
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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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UNICEF Research for Children 2013: From Evidence to Action
This volume represents the first systematic attempt to showcase the breadth and depth of UNICEF's research work. At the end of 2012, the Office of Research invited UNICEF's country and regional offices, national committees and headquarters to submit recen
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Save the Children's Child Protection and Psychosocial work in Middle and High-Income Countries
How applicable are psychosocial and protection programmes to high- and middle-income countries? Save the Children has expanded large-scale emergency responses to high-income countries – such as Australia, Italy, Japan, Spain and the USA – and to middle-in
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Why Do Some Men Use Violence Against Women and How Can We Prevent It? Quantitative Findings from the United Nations Multi-country Study on Men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific
This study was a collaboration between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF), the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, and United Nations Volunteers (UNV). The objecti
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Building Your Child Helpline: A user-friendly guide to starting or scaling-up a child helpline
This publication by Child Helpline International (CHI) offers support and advice on how to improve or initiate a child helpline, using a model most suitable to local circumstances. It gives opportunity to draw from experiences of already existing helpline
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A practical guide to gender-sensitive approaches for disaster management (IFCR)
These guidelines are intended to help Red Cross National Societies and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) incorporate effective gender-sensitive and inclusive approaches into their disaster management strategies wh
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Laws and Policies for Maternal and Young Child Health Care in China
In 2009, Save the Children launched the global campaign EVERY ONE to prevent the unnecessary deaths of children under 5 and to play a part in achieving Millennium Development Goal 4, which aims to reduce the under 5 mortality rate by two thirds by 2015. T