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North East Nigeria: Children's lives and futures at risk
Children in North East Nigeria are paying the heaviest price for seven years of brutal insurgency, coupled with months of intensified fighting between insurgents and the Nigerian government. Violence has forced a million children to flee their homes and s
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'Bad Blood': Perceptions of children born of conflict-related sexual violence and women and girls associated with Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria
Sexual violence is a prevalent factor of the ongoing conflict in northeast Nigeria. Hundreds of women and girls have been raped by fighters belonging to Jama’atul ahl al-sunnah li da’awati wal jihad (JAS), known globally as Boko Haram. Many of the women a
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Every Last Child Country Spotlight: Nigeria
Save the Children is campaigning at an international and national level to achieve the greatest impact for children with the Every Last Child Campaign. Save the Children in Nigeria aims to revolutionize the way the country treats children in the next 15 y
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European Refugee Crisis, Response Dashboard, 29th January 2016
Save the Children’s European Refugee Crisis Response Dashboard provides the latest information on the European Refugee Crisis in Europe. This short report provides key figures and information on the current state of the crisis in Europe, as of the 29 th o
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Child Protection in Emergencies Facts and Figures
Compiled by the Child Protection Working Group (CPWG), this report presents facts and figures on child protection in emergencies. Data was collected for the 42 countries that have a Humanitarian Coordinator or that were on the Inter-Agency's Standing Comm
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Violence Against Children in Nigeria: Findings from a National Survey 2014
This report presents the findings from the Violence Against Children Survey (VACS) in Nigeria, which was carried out by the National Population Commission in 2014. The survey, the first of its kind in both Nigeria and West Africa, provides national estima
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Applying Community-Based Participatory Research to Better Understand and Improve Kinship Care Practices: Insights from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone
Published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins in Family and Community Health, this article examines the experiences of Save the Children in implementing a multi-country community-based participatory (CBPR) programme to increase the understanding of kinship c
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Breastfeeding: Policy Matters
The health outcomes of breastfeeding and the risks of not breastfeeding for infants, mothers, families and society are well established. In high-, middle- and low-income countries, breastfeeding promotes optimal mental and physical development and prevent
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The West African Giveaway: Use & abuse of corporate tax incentives in ECOWAS
This report examines corporate tax incentives and their impact in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), with a focus on four countries: Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire and Senegal. ActionAid and Tax Justice Network Africa’s research shows
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Prevent and Protect: Linking the HIV and child protection response to keep children safe, healthy & resilient
In 2013 the Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Children and HIV and AIDS completed an analysis of how child protection systems and services affect HIV and AIDS, and vice versa, and provided recommendations on how they could work together to improve each oth