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School Budget: Students' opinion matters!
With the support of teachers and Save the Children volunteers, students from 25 schools of Bucharest, Suceava, Mures and Timis drafted projects on “Students’ participation to school budget decisions”. A winning project was selected from each participating
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A Guide to building healthy parent-child relationships: A positive rights-based approach
Save the Children works towards eliminating all forms of corporal or physical punishment and other humiliating or degrading punishment of children in all settings. For this reason, Save the Children Italy, Save the Children Lithuania, Save the Children Ro
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Out of the shadows: Child marriage and slavery
This report, prepared by Anti-Slavery International, sheds light on the striking links between slavery and slavery-like practices and many child marriages. It reviews the literature available on child marriage to show that a potentially high proportion of
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Guide for working with Roma families towards achieving the success of their children in school. A transnational methodological proposal
This guide has been the product of the transnational project “Roma Families Get Involved: transnational methodology for working with Roma families towards their children´s success in education”. The involvement of the family in the education of children
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Breaking the Cycle of Exclusion: Roma children in Southeast europe
UNICEF's report 'Breaking the cycle of exclusion' addresses the key issues involving social exclusion of Roma children in eight South eastern European countries. It highlights the severity and the causes of exclusion of children and identifies the most c
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"My son still shies away from me"- Save the Children
In Romania the use of corporal punishment along with verbal and emotional abuse against children is often a common parenting practice. Family risk factors such as poor parenting, family conflict and marriage breakdown strongly influence children’s develop
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An overview on where and how to find information on government spending on child rights in 10 European countries
As part of the EU Fundamental Rights and Citizenship operational grant 2012, Save the Children's Child Rights Governance Initiative (CRGI) commissioned two studies related to 'Investment in Children' among 10 Save the Children (SC) Members in Europe. The
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Diagnostics and Policy Advice for Supporting Roma Inclusion in Romania
Roma families constitute an extremely vulnerable ethnic minority in Romanian society. Most Roma families are impoverished, and their continued exclusion from Romanian markets fuels a cycle of poverty within the minority group. Therefore, Roma inclusion is
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Child Abandonment and its Prevention in Europe
Article 7 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child clearly states that every child has “the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents”. When a child is abandoned, this right is violated. Infants and young children are those m
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Governance fit for children. To what extent have the general measures of implementation of the UNCRC been realised in Romania?
This study is part part of the ‘Governance fit for children’ project, and aims to examine the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child’s ’General measures of implementation’ (GMI) in five EU countries and in EU institutions. The studies
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City Kids: Urbanisation and its consequences for children’s right to be protected from abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence
During the second half of the 20th century the process of urbanisation has accelerated in developing countries. Over half of the world’s population – including a billion children – are now estimated to live in urban areas. This recent change from a predom
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Adolescents’ Peer Leader Manual for Life Skills Development
This Manual is a guide for peer educators, and it incorporates methods and techniques of non-formal education, as well as practical examples of workshops on different topics. The aim of this Manual is to support peer educators (14 to18 years), and to impl