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Every Last Child Country Spotlight: Mexico
Save the Children is campaigning at an international and national level to achieve the greatest impact for children with the Every Last Child Campaign. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) provide a path towards eradicating poverty and creating more eq
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Children on the Move: Mexico
Save the Children’s response in Mexico emphasizes the creation and promotion of alternatives that prevent migration of unaccompanied children and adolescents in Mexico and the Northern Triangle of Central America. Save the Children also articulates action
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Women's Work: Mothers, children and the global childcare crisis
This publication highlights the hidden crisis the world is facing in childcare. Written by The Overseas Development Institute, the report identifies the severe shortcomings of current early childhood care and education programming in meeting the needs of
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Broken Dreams: Central American children's dangerous journey to the United States
Broken Dreams: Central American children's dangerous journey to the United States shares the obstacles and dangers that children and adolescents face as they journey to the United States. UNICEF reports that in the first six months of 2016, almost 26,000
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Embarazo y Maternidad en la Adolescencia
Embarazo y maternidad adolescente – estado de las madres en México (Adolescent pregnancy and maternity – State of Mexico’s mothers) is part of Save the Children’s wider campaign Every Last Girl. Amongst the OECD countries, Mexico has the highest rate of a
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Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes Migrantes Retornados. Un análisis de los contextos y las respuestas de los servicios y las políticas de protección en El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y México
This rapid assessment aims to address the lack of information on policies and services of government agencies and non-governmental organizations responsible for protecting the rights of child and adolescent migrants returning to their countries of origin
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Childhood and Migration in Central and North America: Causes, Policies, Practices and Challenges
This book analyzes the conditions for children and adolescents in Central and North America who are affected by migration. Every stage of the process is explored and analyzed, including their countries of origin, during transit, in destination countries,
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The Lottery of Birth: Giving all children an equal chance to survive
In many countries across the world, the odds of children surviving to celebrate their fifth birthday have improved considerably in recent years. Today, 17,000 fewer children die every day than was the case in 1990 and the global under-five child mortality
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Unaccompanied Child Migration to the United States: The Tension between Protection and Prevention
This research report, published by the Migration Policy Institute and written by Marc R. Rosenblum, explains the shifting patterns of Central American migration between 2011 and 2014 while analysing the policy challenges that these increased flows placed
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Save the Children Calls for Urgent Action to Protect Children on the Move from Central America to the United States: Save the Children Position Paper
Children from Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras and other Central American nations have been migrating to the United States for years. However, their numbers increased dramatically beginning in late 2013. Between October 2013 and May 2014, nearly 5
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Unaccompanied Alien Children: An Overview
This report begins with an analysis of data on the recent surge in unaccompanied alien children (UAC) crossing the border. It then discusses current policy on their treatment, care, and custody according to US law. There are two laws and one settlement th
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Uprooted (Arrancados de raiz)
Uprooted highlights the situation of the thousands of unaccompanied or separated children (UASCs) moving across borders from Central America into Mexico. The study is based on a mixed research methodology, involving group discussions with 200 UASC and ind