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Children's Right to be Heard: We're talking; are you listening?
Nearly a year since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, children worldwide continue to grapple with unprecedented hardships. However, the virus did not destroy children’s resolve to find and use their voices as forces for change. This brief explores fa
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Our Europe, Our Rights, Our Future: Children and young people's contribution to the new EU strategy on the Rights of the Child and the Child Guarantee
The European Union (EU) is committed to promoting and protecting the rights of children. It is undertaking two major pieces of work to contribute to making this commitment a reality: • A Strategy on the Rights of the Child, 2021-2024 • A Child Guarantee t
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Children's Participation: How to involve children in decision-making
This report introduces and explains principles, concepts, and practical considerations, in order to fill gaps in understanding the practices of children’s participation in business. It is the result of a Global Child Forum research project aiming to devel
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We Can!
We Can! is inspired by the artwork, messages, and recommendations of children in Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon about their dreams for girls in their community. This is part of a collaboration called #DreamsBetweenMyEyes, between Save the Children Internation
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View from the Lockdown: Children and youth's experience of COVID-19 in Lebanon
Save the Children carried out a survey in Lebanon to understand children and youth’s perspectives during the current COVID-19 lockdown and restrictions introduced in response to the outbreak. The research asked 137 children and youth of different national
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Minimum Quality Standards and Indicators for Community Engagement
Around the world and across contexts, community engagement approaches support communities in taking their own action in addressing their most pressing issues. Community engagement is intrinsic to the human rights-based approach to development and humanita
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A Mapping on Child Participation Initiatives: In public decision making and monitoring processes
Save the Children Sweden (SCS) undertook a mapping of child participation initiatives in the context of public decision-making and monitoring processes implemented between 2017 and 2019, that are part of SCS’s Global Civil Society Program funded by the Sw
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Children’s Voice 2020: Children’s views on the coronavirus spring
Stress, worry and loneliness are effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the lives of children and youth in Finland. Focus of the Children’s voice 2020 survey was on the experiences of 13–17 children and youth regarding the exceptional circumsta
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Listen To Us: Girls’ and boys’ gendered experiences of the conflict in eastern Ukraine
Since 2014, an armed conflict has been ongoing in eastern Ukraine. An estimated 5.2 million people are affected by the conflict. This study aims to help fill a gap in evidence concerning the gendered impact of the conflict on boys and girls of different a
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My Pocket Guide to CRC Reporting
A companion guide that has been developed for children and adolescents willing to tell the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child about how children’s rights are respected in their country. It should be used in conjuntion with "Together with
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Children and Young People’s Voices in Times of COVID-19: Voices of children and young people in the United Kingdom (Milton Keynes) and World Vision International’s young leaders programme
This research is part of World Vision’s global campaign ‘It Takes A World to End Violence Against Children’ which seeks to see an end to all forms of violence against children everywhere. We gathered 110 children and young people online from 14 countries
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A Qualitative Assessment of Pathways to Youth Inclusion in Afghanistan
Afghanistan has one of the youngest populations in the world, with two-thirds of the population being under the age of 25. Learning the right skills and getting the right opportunities, young Afghans have the potential to be a source of social progress, i