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I Wish Tomorrow Will Not Come: Adolescents and the impact of conflict on their experiences
In 2017 Save the Children conducted a participatory study with 571 adolescent girls and boys, caregivers and community members in Iraq, Egypt, Jordan and Yemen. We wanted to hear directly from adolescents how conflict affects their lives, what challenges
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Annual Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) 2018
In 2018, killing and maiming of children reached record high levels since the creation of the monitoring and reporting mechanism on children and armed conflict. More than 24 000 grave violations against children were recorded by the United Nations in 20 c
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Achieving Durable Solutions for Returnee Children: What do we know?
We are in the midst of a profound ‘returns-first’ shift in the global politics of child displacement. In response to soaring numbers of displaced worldwide –68.5 million, of which more than half are children – governments around the world are increasingl
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No Choice: It takes a world to end the use of child soldiers
World Vision commissioned research by Child Frontiers International, 'No Choice', to better understand children associate with armed groups. Featuring primary and secondary research from Central African Republic, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Condo
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Rethink Child Soldiers: A new approach to the reintegration of all children associated with armed forces and groups
This report aims to bring global attention to the challenges related to the reintegration of children associated with armed forces and groups, and promote better policy, practice and funding in the future. The findings are based on a literature review and
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Migration, Displacement and Education: Building bridges, not walls
No part of the world is currently affected by migration and displacement as much as the Arab States. Even though the region only accounts for five percent of the global population, it holds 32 percent of the global amount of refugees and 38 percent of the
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Civil Documentation for Internally Displaces Persons (IDPs) in Protracted Displacement
This rapid review examines evidence on how the Iraqi government can simplify or provide temporary civil documentation to IDPs in protracted displacement. Conflict and violence are the main triggers of internal displacement; therefore, information is provi
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Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme Case Study: Sopho
This document is a case study of a participant in the Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme. Sopho Andguladze shares her experience from the development programme, and subsequent, job placement in Save the Children Field Offic
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Children and Armed Conflict Special Update: August 2019
On August 2, 2019, the UN Security Council will hold its open debate on children and armed conflict (CAC) under Poland’s presidency. Poland will seek to highlight the 10-year anniversary of the adoption of Security Council Resolution 1882 (2009), as well
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FRESH School Health and Nutrition (SHN) Webinar: Programming for Children's Social and Emotional Well-being- Lessons from Iraq- September 2019
What is social-emotional learning and how does it happen in schools in Iraq? How do we measure children's social and emotional skills and well-being in emergency and tenuous environments? What tools can we use to evaluate the effect of social-emotional le
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Child's Play: Harnessing play and curiosity motives to improve child handwashing in a humanitarian setting
In humanitarian emergency settings there is need for low cost and rapidly deployable interventions to protect vulnerable children, in- and out-of-school, from diarrhoeal diseases. Handwashing with soap can greatly reduce diarrhoea but interventions specif
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Situation of IDP Children: War Child UK's recommendations for consideration and inclusion in General Assembly report
This document summarises War Child UK's recommendations for the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) report for the General Assembly. Information contained was gathered from country teams in South Sudan and Iraq a