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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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Child friendly Court in Zanzibar. Press Release
To end the violence against children and to enable children who are to witness against their perpetrators, a Child-Friendly Court has just been launched by the Government of Zanzibar with the support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Ag
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The right to learn: Community participation in improving learning
The past decade has witnessed unprecedented progress with millions more children in school. But there is a growing crisis in learning. Millions of children in school are unable to read, write or calculate. As The Right to Learn shows, a key factor in over
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Case Study. Bringing to end corporal punishment: alternative forms of discipline for children in Tanzania
Corporal punishment in schools is still widely practised in Tanzania, and although the Government of Tanzania has ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, corporal punishment in schools remains legal. The programme implemented by Save the Ch
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A Guide to Costing Human Rights
This paper aims to improve the ability of civil society organisations to perform costing exercises for human rights policy by giving an overview of key concepts and definitions relevant to costing human rights policy, outlining steps that every human righ
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Stopping violence against children. The Tanzania Violence against Children Study and the National Response
This report lists the key features of Tanzania's National Plan of Action to Prevent and Respond to Violence Against Children. It is the national response plan to the critical concerns identified by the 2009 Violence against Children Survey report led by t
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Working with Customary Justice Systems: Post-Conflict and Fragile States
This volume aims to assist readers develop a better understanding of the relationship between customary justice and the legal empowerment of users and identify possible entry points for engaging with customary justice systems. It features chapters on init
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The African Report on Child Wellbeing 2011. Budgeting for Children
This 2011 edition of The African Report on Child Wellbeing is the second in a series of reports published biennially by The African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) as their contribution to putting Africa’s children on the public and political agenda, and to hol
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Agents for change. How children can be involved in accountability: A case study from Zanzibar
Save the Children prides itself on being there for children: saving their lives, fighting for their rights, improving the quality of their lives, helping them to fulfil their potential. But how much feedback do we actively seek from those we claim to be h
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Missing Midwives
The Missing Midwives report focuses on the world-wide shortage of midwives and their vital role for improving high maternal and child mortality. Almost 48 million women give birth around the world every year without expert help, and of them two million de
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Creating Space for Child Participation in Local Governance in Tanzania: Save the Children and Children's Councils (Research on Poverty Alleviation Brief)
This brief summarises the principal findings of a study which examined children’s councils supported by Save the Children as one avenue to promote children’s participation in local governance in Tanzania. The research found that the councils were genuine,
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Programme conjoint UNFPA-UNICEF sur les Mutilations génitales féminines / excision: Accélérer le changement
The objective of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting: Accelerating Change is to contribute to the abandonment of FGM/C in 17 African countries within a generation. The programme’s holistic, cross-border approach is fo