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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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The Impact of COVID-19 on Children in Europe
Child poverty in Europe was already unacceptably high before the COVID-19 virus outbreak. In 2018, one in four children in the European Union (EU) were already growing up at risk of poverty or social exclusion. The crisis has had devastating consequences
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Implementing the Global Compact on Refugees for children: Examples of child-focused work
At the time of writing, children make up over half of the world's refugees. These children face severe protection issues, and their care and development needs often go unmet. As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the world, the situation for refugee
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Roma in the COVID-19 Crisis: An early warning from six EU member states
Roma communities in Europe face a heightened risk for death and complications from COVID-19, as their situation marked by racism and poverty has been worsening during the last decade. Every third Roma child lives in a household where someone went to bed h
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Where it all Begins: Early childhood education for equal opportunities
Quality early childhood education (0-3 years) is very important for the development of children's cognitive and socio-emotional skills. High costs, bureaucracy, political-organizational issues and ideological-cultural beliefs are problems that make access
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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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At the Western Doorstep: Highlighting the human rights violations experienced by refugees and displaced people arriving in Europe through the western Mediterranean route
Within the context of ‘externalisation’ of European borders to North African countries, Refugee Rights Europe (RRE) set out to research and highlight the experiences facing refugees and displaced people arriving in Europe through Morocco and via the Weste
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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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Eyes that Fail to See: The sexual abuse of children in Spain and failures in the system
Between 10 and 20 percent of the population in Spain have suffered some kind of sexual abuse as a child. Faced with this unquestionable statistic, the most common questions are not: “How is this possible?” or “What has gone wrong?”, but rather: “Is that f
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“Boys Should Have the Courage to Ask a Girl Out”: Gender norms in early adolescent romantic relationships
This study explores how gender norms emerge in romantic relationships among early adolescents in five low-income urban areas: Baltimore, Cuenca, Edinburgh, Ghent, and Nairobi. Findings from the study indicate that stereotypical gender norms about romantic
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Disinherited: Childhood inequality, equal opportunities and public policy
"Disinherited" begins by describing the current inequality affecting children living in Spain and its relation to the possibility of social mobility according to the income and social and cultural capital that children inherit from their parents. The repo
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Yo a eso no juego: Bullying y ciberbullying en la infancia
This report from Save the Children Spain shows that cyberbullying is a form of harassment and violence that occurs between children. Save the Children Spain surveyed over 21,000 students between the age of 12 and 16 in order to understand the occurrence a