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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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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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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 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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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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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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The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: a study of legal implementation in 12 countries
Study of legal and non-legal measures of implementing the CRC in 12 countries, and analysing the most effective, practical and impactful ways of embedding children's rights into UK domestic law. UNICEF UK commissioned Queen’s University Belfast to study t
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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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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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Disaster Risk Reduction Member Activity Report. Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction Efforts Conducted by InterAction Member Agencies
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) aims to lessen the impacts of disasters through prevention and preparedness. By promoting and institutionalizing actions to mitigate the effects of these events, or avert them altogether, DRR takes a proactive stance to the d