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Save the Children has a strong, long-standing commitment to the advancement of all children’s rights, for every child, everywhere – in both emergency and longer-term development contexts. This commitment goes right back to the early years of the organisation’s foundation and is now part of the organisation’s DNA. All Save the Children's work is guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted in 1989 by the General Assembly of the United Nations. As long ago as 1923, Save the Children’s founder, Eglantyne Jebb, wrote the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. She proposed five fundamental principles for children’s rights, which were important when the Convention was established.

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  1. Safety and Fundamental Rights at Stake for Children on the Move

    The number of people seeking asylum in Europe has risen drastically over the past years. Half of them are children. As children on the move, they are particularly vulnerable and at risk of violence, abuse, exploitation, trauma and even death. They are in

    Publication year: 2016 Publisher(s): ENOC, European Network of Ombudspersons for Children Author(s): Fagerholm, Karin | Verheul, Rhea | Dullaert, Marc | Malmberg, Fredrik

  2. COVID-19 Child Rights Governance Expanded Programme Adaptation Guidance

    COVID-19 is a global pandemic that threatens children's rights in countries around the world and exposes them to a potentially massive disruption to their healthcare, education, access to basic needs and services, and social interactions. It is important

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): Save the Children

  3. Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism: The erosion of children’s rights in armed conflict

    The evolving nature of warfare and the increase in conflict intensity, duration, and complexity present new challenges for the protection of children in armed conflict. In particular, the rise of non-State armed groups resorting to acts of terrorism has c

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict

  4. Joint Appeal for Effective Response and Mitigation of Impact of COVID-19 on the Children in Bangladesh

    While the world is grappling with the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Bangladesh also starts being affected. Joining Forces Bangladesh appreciates the measures taken by the Government of Bangladesh that includes enforcing nationwide spora

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): Child Rights Now! ...

  5. Children's Rights in the Netherlands

    This input for the List of Issues Prior to Reporting (LOIPR) is the result of broad consultation by the Dutch NGO Coalition for Children’s Rights amongst Dutch non-governmental organisations (NGO’s), youth and experts. During round-table conversations on

    Publication year: 2019 Publisher(s): Save the Children Netherlands | Terre des Hommes | ...

  6. The Global Climate Crisis: A child rights crisis

    Climate change arguably poses the single greatest challenge to the realisation of children’s rights, and threatens to undercut decades of hard-won progress to improve their lives. Despite being least responsible for this unfolding crisis, children bear th

    Publication year: 2019 Publisher(s): Save the Children International | ChildFund Alliance | Plan ...

  7. Advancing Children's Rights: A Guide for Civil Society Organisations on how to engage with the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child [Third Edition]

    This is the third edition of the publication "Advancing Children's Rights- A Guide for Civil Society Organisations' on how to engage with the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child", published by Save the Children Sweden and P

    Publication year: 2019 Publisher(s): Save the Children | Plan International Author(s): Sheahan, Frances

  8. South African Children's Manifesto 2019

    According to Section 28 of the South African Constitution, every child has the right to a name and nationality from birth, family or parental care and basic nutrition, shelter and health care. Section 28 also states that every child has the right to prote

    Publication year: 2019 Publisher(s): Nelson Mandela Children's Fund

  9. National Child Participation Framework: Child friendly version

    This is the child-friendly version of the 'National Child Participation Framework' that was developed to promote the meaningful participation of children in South Africa. This format can be used to enable children from as young as 3 years old to youth of

    Publication year: 2019 Publisher(s): Save the Children South Africa

  10. A Second Revolution: Thirty years of child rights and the unfinished agenda

    The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted 30 years ago, has contributed to a transformation of historic proportions. On most measures, the lives of children today are on average dramatically better than 30 years ago. Hundreds of millions more

    Publication year: 2019 Publisher(s): Joining Forces | Save the Children International | ChildFund All ... Author(s): O'Kane, Claire | Trapp, Annabel | Watt, Patrick | Morgan, Richard

  11. The Impact of the Best Interests and the Respect for the Views of the Child Principles in Child Custody Cases

    The best interests of the child and the respect for the views of the child are pillars designed and recognized in international children’s law as principles on which children’s rights in general evolve. Both principles operate across a wide range of issue

    Publication year: 2019 Publisher(s): Nordic Journal of International Law Author(s): Fokala, Elvis

  12. Unlocking Cambodia's Future

    This report represents six priority areas for investment in child rights that can overcome these two key obstacles of inequality and rapidly changing context. Identified as "game changers", they represent significant shifts in the current way of doing thi

    Publication year: 2019 Publisher(s): Save the Children International | ChildFund Alliance | Plan ...

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