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Young Voices- Lithuania 2017
Young Voices- Lithuania is Save the Children Lithuania's nation-wide survey of children aged 12, 14, and 17, asking them their views on bullying, violence, unsafe places, feeling bad, support and help, school, education, their rights, the future, and much
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Prohibition Against Physical and Humiliating Punishment in Lithuania
In February 2017, the Lithuanian Parliament passed amendments to the Law on the Fundamentals of Protection of the Rights of the Child 1996. The reform makes Lithuania the 52nd state worldwide to prohibit corporal punishment of children in all settings and
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Family Support and Alternative Care: The Baltic Sea States Regional Report 2015
Founded in 1992, the Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS) is a strong network of countries in the region that works toward developing society, protecting the environment, and supporting the economy. Recent priorities have been ensuring children have a safe
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Family Support and Alternative Care: Tallinn Expert Meeting Report 2015
In May 2015, a high-level expert meeting on alternative care and family support took place in Tallinn, hosted by the Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs and the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) in collaboration with the E
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Tallinn Recommendations and Action Plan on Alternative Care and Family Support for the Baltic Sea Region 2015-2020
Government representatives, experts and professionals from the Baltic Sea Region including Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, the Russian Federation, Sweden and wider Europe endorsed the Tallinn Recommendations
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Family Support and Alternative Care in the Baltic Sea Region: Background paper 2015
In preparation for the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) expert meeting on Family Support and Alternative Care in the Baltic Sea Region, May 2015, this background paper was crafted from relevant data and information on family support and alternative
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A Guide to building healthy parent-child relationships: A positive rights-based approach
Save the Children works towards eliminating all forms of corporal or physical punishment and other humiliating or degrading punishment of children in all settings. For this reason, Save the Children Italy, Save the Children Lithuania, Save the Children Ro
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Children trafficked for exploitation in begging and criminality: A challenge for law enforcement and child protection
In 2002, the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) established an Expert Group for Cooperation on Children at Risk (EGCC), a group of representatives from the ministries responsible for child policy in the CBSS Member States. The Expert Group set up the
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A manual for empowering young people in preventing gender-based violence through peer education
The Youth4Youth training manual is the culmination of a series of initiatives undertaken in several European countries that aimed at shedding more light on the issue of gender-based violence among adolescents. Youth4Youth manual is an awareness-raising, t
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När man misstänker att barn far illa: En studie av hur professionella inom BVC, förskola och skola förhåller sig till anmälningsplikten
What to do if you have a suspicion of child abuse? What should social service workers and educators do if there is any suspicion that a child does not fare well? This Save the Children study is about how Child Welfare Service staff and pre-school and shoo
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Child Abandonment and its Prevention in Europe
Article 7 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child clearly states that every child has “the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents”. When a child is abandoned, this right is violated. Infants and young children are those m
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Governance Fit for Children: To what extent have the general measures of implementation of the UNCRC been realised in five European Countries? A comparative study
This Comparative Report brings together evidence from national studies carried out in Italy, Lithuania, Romania, Sweden and the UK by Save the Children organisations for the ‘Governance Fit for Children’ project, aimed at assessing how far the general mea