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Child Rights Governance In-depth Analysis Report, 2014
This report is an in-depth analysis of child rights governance (CRG) in Swaziland, which focuses on the priority areas identified after a sectorial CRG analysis was conducted by Save the Children International. These priority areas are: the General Measur
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The Rights of All Children in the Context of International Migration: Voices of Children on the Move
This report summarises the consultations with migrant children carried out in preparation for the Day of General Discussion (DGD) in five regions around the world over a period of 3 months, involving over 100 children. Children were consulted in China, My
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Linking Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS: Gateways to integration- A case study from Swaziland
This case study, based in Swaziland, is part of a series of joint publications of IPPF, UNFPA, UNAIDS and WHO, on strengthening linkages between sexual and reproductive health and HIV. Increasingly the first two prongs – preventing new HIV infections (Pro
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Good Practice Review: Cash transfer programming in emergencies
One of the more exciting innovations in the response to humanitarian crises of recent years has been the use of cash. Across the humanitarian sector there is growing recognition that cash and voucher transfers can support people affected by disasters in w
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Fact Sheet on National Child Protection System in Swaziland
Save the Children Sweden is currently advocating for child protection systems in Swaziland and this fact sheet provides a brief overview of the purposes and functions of these systems from a national perspective. Corporal punishment of children seems to b
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Monitoring Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: To strengthen follow up by civil society on Concluding Observations and recommendations made by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
The overall purpose of this study is to contribute to the UN CRC reporting process to influence state governments to progress on their implementation of the CRC. The objective is to share some Save the Children experience on how to follow up on Concluding
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Child Rights Governance: Implementing Child Rights
This publication is part of Save the Children's ‘Governance fit for children’ research project launched in 2010. This booklet contains eight country-specific examples on how Save the Children successfully has supported governments to respond and step up t
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Case study- The government of Swaziland prioritises children's rights. A case study on advocacy by Save the Children based on Concluding observations from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Swaziland ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1995. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child examined Swaziland’s first report to the Committee in 2006 with input from, amongst others, Save the Children. In its Concluding Observati
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Child survival and HIV. Policy Brief
HIV-related illnesses are a major cause of children dying, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, and are an obstacle to the international development goal to cut child mortality by two-thirds by 2015. International donors and national governments must make th
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Children on the Frontline- Children and Young People in Disaster Risk Reduction
For the 2009 UN ISDR Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Civil Society around the world produced the unprecedented Views from the Frontline survey on Disaster Risk Reduction. The contribution of Plan and World Vision to this survey enabled t