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Stopp! Min Kropp! Second edition
Stopp! Min Kropp! ("Respect! My Body!") is a guidance document developed for adults to use when teaching children about their bodies, boundaries, and sexual abuse. Early on, children need to understand the value of their bodies and how to say or communica
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Forum för Förändring: Metodhandbok om Rädda Barnens tjej- och killforum
På Lika Villkor (Under the Same Conditions) is a program run by Save the Children Sweden working towards long-term sustainable change for children in Sweden's most economically distressed areas. The program aims to give children and youth greater influenc
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My Safety and Resilience: Girls pocket-guide
This Pocket-Guide reveals how UNICEF and its partners successfully designed, implemented and evaluated a girls-only empowerment program with the Roma communities as well as migrant and refugee populations in Serbia and in Bulgaria.
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Community Centres- UNHCR Community-Based Protection in Action
This briefing note presents UNHCR’s approach to community-based protection. In situations of forced displacement, the ties which hold a community together are often severely weakened or broken. Tensions can arise not only amongst different displaced commu
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Community-Based Outreach Outside of Camps
This briefing note investigates the different protection risks that face refugees who live outside of camps. These can include the threat of arbitrary arrest and detention, harassment, exploitation, discrimination, inadequate and overcrowded housing, as w
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Respect! My Body!: A handbook for grown-ups on how to talk with children about body boundaries and sexual abuse
Some parents feel confident dealing with more concrete issues like teaching their children the values of right and wrong- but what happens when you want to talk openly with young children about their own bodies, sexuality and boundaries? How do you teach
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Unlocking potential through education: Key achievements
Globally, great strides have been made towards achieving universal primary education since 2000. However, there are still 57 million children worldwide who are denied their right to education, half of whom live in conflict-affected or fragile states and a
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Promoting women’s financial inclusion- A toolkit
In order to promote poverty reduction and gender equity, there is a clear rationale for using development resources to enhance financial inclusion for women. This toolkit offers a practical guide to developing and monitoring financial services to enhance
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Opening Doors: Gender Equality and Development in the Middle East and North Africa. World Bank 2013
Since the early 1990s, countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region have made admirable progress in reducing the gap between girls and boys in areas such as access to education and health care. Indeed, almost all young girls in the Region a
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Scattered dreams, broken promises: An Assessment of the Links between Girls’ Empowerment and Gender-based Violence in the Kyaka II Refugee Settlement, Uganda
Assessment Report by The Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) from its mission to Kyaka II Camp in Kegegwa, Uganda, aimed to explore the relationship between the empowerment of adolescent refugee girls and the prevention of gender-based violence (GBV). This i
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Violence against children and the post-2015 framework. Update No. 2- Save the Children
This is the second of a series of updates from Save the Children tracking progress towards the inclusion of violence against children and child protection in the Post-2015 framework. These updates will keep you informed on progress in the negotiations,
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Becoming a human rights friendly school: A Guide for schools around the world
The Human Rights Friendly Schools project aims to empower young people and promote the active participation of all members of the school community in integrating human rights values and principles into all areas of school life. The project is founded on t