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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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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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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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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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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
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Right to Justice: Quality Legal Assistance for Unaccompanied Children- Comparative Report
Unaccompanied children face diverse systems of legal assistance in various migration and asylum procedures, depending on the country they arrive in. This report examines all forms of legal assistance provided to unaccompanied children, from legal advice t
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Guía de recursos para la prevención y atención del abuso y la explotación sexual infantil
Over the past ten years Save the Children has been working against child sexual abuse in Spain, where one of the greatest obstacles in protecting children from sexual abuse and exploitation has been tied to lack of information and the inadequacy of existi
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A manual for empowering young people in preventing gender-based violence through peer education
The Youth4Youth training manual is the culmination of a series of initiatives undertaken in several European countries that aimed at shedding more light on the issue of gender-based violence among adolescents. Youth4Youth manual is an awareness-raising, t