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The State of the World's Children. Special edition. Celebrating 20 Years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
On 20 November 2009, the global community celebrates the 20th anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the unique document that sets international standards for the care, treatment an
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China Country Brief
Although the standard of living in China has risen over the past 30 years, there are widening gaps between rich and poor, and urban and rural areas. Two-thirds of China’s 367 million children live in rural areas. Many of them, especially those from minori
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Strengthening inclusive education.
Inclusive education addresses the diverse learning needs of all kinds of learners. It reaches out to excluded groups and goes beyond providing physical access to learning institutions to encompass academic and instructional access to learning concepts. Th
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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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The evolving evidence base for child protection in Chinese societies
Evolving Evidence base for child protection in the Chinese Societies: Summary of a research providing some insight into child protection issues in China. Child maltreatment is a substantial public health issue worldwide. Although extensively studied in We
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Resource Manual on Flash Flood Risk Management: Module 1: Community-based Management
Frequent flash floods in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region pose a severe threat to life, livelihoods and infrastructure, both within the mountains and downstream. Vulnerable groups, including people with disabilities, the poor, women and children, are the w
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Children on the Move in South-East Asia: Why child protection systems are needed
Hundreds of thousands of children are migrating within the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) and beyond in East and South-East Asia. Many are invisible to the public. Many have been exploited. Yet children’s migration has drawn little attention. This report
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Taking forward the recommendations of the UN Secretary General’s Global Study on Violence against Children
The publication is the summary of the East Asia regional meeting of UNICEF and Save the Children Alliance. It consisted of a review of the country-level successes in implementing the recommendations of the UN Study, an exchange of good practices between c
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A mapping of national child protection systems
This summary report provides a concise overview of the current status of national child protection systems in countries where Save the Children is operating, and has been written as an input to the Global Workshop in Costa Rica on ‘Right Based National Ch
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Save the Children cross-border project against trafficking and exploitation of migrant and vulnerable children
Save the Children has been striving to address the abuse and exploitation of children in the six countries in the Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia. Here, thousands of children have been falling into the hands of exploitative individuals.
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Improving Local Governance and Service Delivery: Citizen Report Card Learning Tool Kit
The Citizen Report Card (CRC) is a simple but powerful tool to provide public agencies with systematic feedback from users of public services. By collecting feedback on the quality and adequacy of public services from actual users, the CRC provides a rigo
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Legislative Frameworks for Child Survival. Save the Children Survival Campaign
In 2009, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer began supporting Save the Children International in relation to the implementation of the Save the Children 2010-2015 global strategy, including the set up of Save the Children's new groundbreaking international pro