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Under the Same Sky: How a year of COVID-19 affected Asia-Pacific Children
A year after- as the world still grapples with COVID-19, children and families' lives are being turned upside down with devastating impacts on children and their rights. From health systems are being overwhelmed, economies are sliding down, and children h
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Where Do Rich Countries Stand on Childcare?
Some of the world’s richest countries were failing to offer comprehensive childcare solutions to all families even before COVID-19. This was in some instances a reflection of the countries policy priorities rather than available resources. The COVID-19 pa
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Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme 4th Cycle Asia Pacific: Residential Training Report
Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme (CPiE PDP) is a six-month capacity building programme for mid-level child protection in emergencies practitioners. In the Asia Pacific region, three cycles have been completed since 2016 a
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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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Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) Policy Case Study: Mainstreaming road safety education for children in South Korea
Due to a high rate of traffic facilities, South Korea intervened with mandatory traffic education in schools and extracurricular traffic education facilities in order to reduce child traffic fatalities and engage students in traffic and transportation edu
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Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) Policy Case Studies Report
Throughout the world, countries have been developing and implementing Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) policies that address safer learning facilities, school disaster management, and risk reduction and resilience education. The following case studies do
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Universal Periodic Review: Successful examples of child rights advocacy
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is an inter-governmental human rights review within the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The UPR assesses the extent to which governments are meeting their obligations to protect, respect and fulfil human rights, includ
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Child Exploitation and the FIFA World Cup: A review of risks and protective interventions
A report published by Brunel University, London, entitled “Child Exploitation and the FIFA World Cup: A review of risks and protective interventions”. This research was commissioned by the Child Abuse Programme at Oak Foundation and forms part of its effo
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Economic Playgrounds: Comparing the lives of children in G20 countries
As the world's premier economic forum, the G20 has the power to change the lives of billions of people currently excluded from global progress, a significant portion of whom are children. Save the Children commends their recent goal to lift collective eco
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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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Beyond Busan: Strengthening aid to improve education outcomes. Education for All Global Monitoring Report
From 29 November to 1 December 2011, the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, South Korea, will review global progress in improving the impact and effectiveness of aid, and make commitments that set a new agenda for development. For million
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Taking forward the recommendations of the UN Secretary General’s Global Study on Violence against Children
The publication is the summary of the East Asia regional meeting of UNICEF and Save the Children Alliance. It consisted of a review of the country-level successes in implementing the recommendations of the UN Study, an exchange of good practices between c