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Small Voices, Big Dreams 2019: Violence against children as explained by children
No child is completely immune to violence. Each year, nearly one billion children are afflicted by some type of physical, sexual, emotional violence or neglect, across different geographical, socioeconomic and cultural barriers. Listening to children and
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Best of UNICEF Research Retrospective: Documenting impact and lessons learned
This retrospective comprises a selection of reports from the past six years of UNICEF research, focusing on children’s rights, protection, and health. The featured examples, including six case studies, has been selected in an annual exercise to award and
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Changing Attitudes to Physical Punishment of Children in Aotearoa New Zealand
In 2007 Section 59 of the Crimes Act 1971 was amended in New Zealand to protect children from assault in any context. The repeal of the law supported children’s rights to dignity, bodily integrity, safety, and equal protection with adults under the law. D
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Our Impact 2017
Save the Children New Zealand has been working for 70 years to save, protect, and improve the lives of children. Working primarily in the Asia-Pacific region, the projects Save the Children New Zealand is involved with cover a wide range of activities in
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Our Impact 2016
Save the Children's goal is to ensure that by 2030 no child dies of preventable causes before their fifth birthday, every child has the opportunity to learn to read and write, and all children are protected from violence. In 2016, Save the Children New Ze
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Our Voices. Our Rights.
Save the Children New Zealand and UNICEF New Zealand have worked together to achieve global goals for children. Yet meaningful change only comes from having everyone around the table, most importantly children and young people themselves. That is why this
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The power of making it simple: A Government Guide To Developing Citizens Budgets
Governments can encourage citizen participation by creating conditions that enable them to participate in a meaningful way. A very important one of these conditions is that all citizens have ready access to government information. "Access" means not simpl
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Positive Discipline. What it is and how to do it. Training for Professionals and Workshops for Parents and Teachers
Leaflet giving information on how Save the Children can contribute to planning/conducting training sessions in Positive Discipline, qualifying participants to deliver positive discipline training to parents and/or teachers. It has been developed as part o
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La primera infancia en perspectiva: Cultura y aprendizaje
Ensuring "the development of the child... to the maximum extent possible" is part of every child’s rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. But to what extent is "development" a cultural process that varies between societies, or a natura
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Strengthening families: Save the Children programs in support of child care and parenting policies
In all countries and regions, parents and families have an important role in providing care and protection for children and they are often supported in this role by the local communities as well as public and private services. Under the UN Convention on t
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Case Study. Hear our voices! Educating the public about the UNCRC in New Zealand
This Case Study is about the children and young people in New Zealand who saw the need to promote greater awareness of children's rights and the UNCRC, and have made known the issues that matter to their growth and development. The 'Hear our voices we ent
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Measuring child poverty: New league tables of child poverty in the world’s rich countries
The latest of the UNICEF Office of Research Report Card series, aimed at focusing on the well-being of children in industrialized countries. Report Card 10 considers two views of child poverty in the world’s advanced economies: a measure of absolute depri