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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. Working Together: Including children in research on violence against children- A Resource Pack for Research Practitioners

    The focus of the resource is not on if we will engage in participatory research, but instead on how we can best support meaningful research initiatives with children. With an explicit focus on research related to violence against children (VAC), the resou

    Publication year: 2021 Publisher(s): Save the Children International | Global Partnership to End Violence Agains ... Author(s): Jamieson, Lucy | Feinstein, Clare | Kapell, Alana | Dulieu, Nicole

  3. Hope under the Rubble: The impact of Israel's home demolition policy on Palestinian children and their families

    Homes are fundamental for children to grow, thrive, and feel protected. As the Occupying Power, Israel has the duty to protect children’s rights. [1] However, since Israel’s occupation of the West Bank in 1967, authorities, so far, have demolished an esti

    Publication year: 2021 Publisher(s): Save the Children International | Save the Children UK | Save t ... Author(s): Nicoll, Claire

  4. 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

    Publication year: 2021 Publisher(s): Joining Forces Coalition | ChildFund Alliance | Save t ... Author(s): Freedson, Julia

  5. Child Participation Guidelines for Online Discussions with Children

    These guidelines were developed to supplement already established procedures and protocols within child rights organizations. The main objective for the development of these guidelines was to contribute to creating child-friendly, inclusive, and safe plat

    Publication year: 2021 Publisher(s): Child Rights Coalition Asia

  6. Teach us for What is Coming: The transition into adulthood of foreign unaccompanied minors in Europe: case studies from France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, and the Netherlands

    This report explores what it is like to be a young person alone seeking safety in Europe when turning 18. It provides information on the difficulties faced in this situation consisting of many shortcomings but also some promising practices. The report fou

    Publication year: 2021 Publisher(s): Oxfam International | Oxfam Italy | Greek Council for Refugees Author(s): Capitani, Giulia | Cesaro, Andrea | Romango, Chiara | Oikonomou, Spyros-Vlad | ...

  7. Child Marriage in the context of COVID-19: Analysis of trends, programming and alternative approaches in the Middle East and North Africa

    Documented good practices, programmatic interventions and alternative approaches that has been implemented in response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child marriage in the Middle East and North Africa region is presented in this study. Furtherm

    Publication year: 2021 Publisher(s): UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund | UNICEF, United Nations Children's ...

  8. Save the Children Documentary: Generation Greta- The world's young climate activists

    “To me it's a must” All over the world young people are taking the lead against the climate crisis and environmental destruction. In Peru, 17-year-old Ada and her friends saw how the once beautiful river turned into a rubbish heap, and they decided to act

    Publication year: 2021 Publisher(s): Save the Children Sweden

  9. Unaccompanied Children at the Gates of Europe: Voices from Samos

    This report investigates the situation facing unaccompanied minors during Covid-19 in Samos. Drawing from desk research, interviews with unaccompanied minors and staff working with them, the report findings underline the further deterioration of an alread

    Publication year: 2021 Publisher(s): Refugee Rights Europe | Still I Rise Author(s): Musty, Emma

  10. Laying the Foundation for Non-violent Childhoods: Putting prohibition of corporal punishment of children into practice

    It is important to increase awareness of the harm of corporal punishment to children, to inform about children’s right to protection and to provide an essential foundation for social norm and behavior change through educational and preventive measures. As

    Publication year: 2021 Publisher(s): Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children | Save the Children Int ...

  11. Allt jag inte får göra: Unga om hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck

    I rapporten  Allt jag inte får göra- unga om hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck  synliggörs ungas egna röster om att leva i en hederskontext, baserat på de drygt 2500 samtal som kommit in till Rädda Barnens Stödchatt Kärleken är fri sedan den startade 2015

    Publication year: 2021 Publisher(s): Save the Children Sweden Author(s): Sundvall-Taavo, Maria | Fältskog, Evelina Aho

  12. Fear and Flight: An uprooted generation of children at risk in Democratic Republic of Congo

    While the world is looking the other way, the lives and futures of more than 3 million displaced children are at risk in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Whole communities have been forced to flee due to a succession of brutal attacks in the ea

    Publication year: 2021 Publisher(s): UNICEF, United Nations Children's Fund

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