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Captured Childhood: Introducing a new model to ensure the rights and liberty of refugee, asylum seeker and irregular migrant children affected by immigration detention
The International Detention Coalition (IDC) has launched its policy document “Captured Childhood” in Geneva at the 19th Session of the Human Rights Council. Over the past two years, the IDC has heard first-hand the stories of children and parents from all
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Country risk reduction profile: Disaster Risk Reduction in Egypt
With a population of more than 75 million and growing, Egypt struggles to find the resources to support children and families. Every year, thousands of Egyptians are born into poverty that negatively impacts their health and wellbeing. In Egypt, Save the
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Review: Teacher Support and Development Interventions
Save the Children commissioned research on teacher support and development as part of a strategy to build professional and technical capacity through sharing knowledge at global, regional and country levels. The research, which this document summarizes, s
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Female Genital Mutilation in Africa: Promising actions and persisting challenges
Understanding how and why harmful cultural and traditional practices such as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) persist continues to enthuse many of the human rights actors. Often associated with maintaining cultural identity and preventing moral decline of
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Child rights governance. Making a reality of children's rights
The Child Rights Governance Global Initiative (CRGI) is one of six global initiatives included in the Save the Children Strategy 2010-15 in order to achieve Save the Children’s thematic goals. This report reviews how Child Rights Governance can hold gover
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Results for Children: An update from Save the Children, Q4, 2011
Save the Children's quarterly activity report providing facts about Malawi, which since 2001 has achieved a 29 percent decline in newborn deaths—from 19,000 per year to 17,000 per year in 2010. In those 10 years, Save the Children, with the support of its
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Dawn in the city. Guidance for Achieving Urban Refugee Self-Reliance
This report details findings and guidance from a qualitative, applied research initiative undertaken by the Women’s Refugee Commission that builds the knowledge base on urban refugees and identifies potential economic strategies and approaches to assist t
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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
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Peril or Protection: The Link Between Livelihoods and Gender-based Violence in Displacement Settings
This research report covers the findings of three Women's Refugee Commission field assessments to Egypt, Malaysia and Ethiopia coupled with the learning from a funded pilot project in Burundi as well as desk research and expert interviews. Key findings co
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Children on the Frontline- Children and Young People in Disaster Risk Reduction
For the 2009 UN ISDR Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Civil Society around the world produced the unprecedented Views from the Frontline survey on Disaster Risk Reduction. The contribution of Plan and World Vision to this survey enabled t
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The dynamics of social change. Towards the abandonment of female genital mutilation/cutting in five African countries
This Innocenti Insight examines the social dynamics of the abandonment of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in five countries- Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal and the Sudan- and seeks to inform policies and programmes aimed at ending the practice.
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Every One Brochure- Egypt
The main ambition of Save the Children's EVERY ONE Campaign introduced in 2009 is to play a pivotal role in achieving Millennium Development Goal 4, which aims to reduce by half the under-five mortality rate between 2010 and 2015. The goal in Egypt is to