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Harmful Traditional Practices and Child Protection. Contested Understandings and Practices of Female Child Marriage and Circumcision in Ethiopia. Working Paper 93
This paper explores local perspectives on female child marriage and circumcision in Ethiopia. Both practices are widespread still, despite international and national efforts to eradicate them, and reflect deep-rooted patriarchal and gerontocratic values r
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Breaking the Cycle of Exclusion: Roma children in Southeast europe
UNICEF's report 'Breaking the cycle of exclusion' addresses the key issues involving social exclusion of Roma children in eight South eastern European countries. It highlights the severity and the causes of exclusion of children and identifies the most c
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Breaking the Silence on Violence against Indigenous Girls, Adolescents and Young Women: A call to action based on an overview of existing evidence from Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America
This joint report from SRSG-VAC, ILO, UN Women, UNFPA and UNICEF, is a thoughtful contribution to the global agenda to prevent and eliminate violence against indigenous girls, adolescents and young women. It offers valuable insights, positive experiences
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Learning about children in urban slums: A rapid ethnographic study in two urban slums in Mombasa of community based child protection mechanisms and their linkage with the Kenyan National Child Protection System
This 2013 report presents findings from a rapid ethnographic study about community-based child protection processes and mechanisms in two urban slums in Mombasa. It is the first in a series of reports from Kenya by the Inter-Agency Learning Initiative on
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UNICEF Briefing paper on Children working in West and Central Africa
This briefing paper focuses on children in the Sahelian countries, who are enrolled in Qur’anic schools and beg as part of this education. In this region, Islamic education predates colonization and the establishment of mission and secular state schools.
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Theories of change in peacebuilding. Learning from the Experiences of Peacebuilding Initiatives in Nepal
This study is conducted as part of the initiative Strengthening Capacity to Design, Monitor and Evaluate Peacebuilding Programming, a collaborative project between CARE International UK and International Alert, implemented in Nepal, Uganda and Democratic
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¿Quién se queda atrás? Resultados iniciales del estudio Niños del Milenio. Tercera ronda de encuestas en el Perú
This report presents initial findings from the third round of data collection by Young Lives in Peru, carried out from late 2009 to early 2010 with two age cohorts of children. It gives a broad outline of some of the key indicators of childhood poverty an
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Kenya at 50: unrealized rights of minorities and indigenous peoples
This report reviews the current status of minority and indigenous groups in Kenya. Focusing on Kenya’s 2010 Constitution, the report pays particular attention to how legal and policy changes over the last five years have addressed the social, economic and
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The Millennium Development Goals Report. Gender Chart 2012
The biennial MDGs Gender Chart depicts the situation of women and girls in developing regions as reflected in a number of indicators that are used to monitor the Millennium Development Goals. It shows that although there has been some progress in a number
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Do Extra Classes Improve Cognitive Test Scores? Evidence from Vietnam
This paper examines whether participation in extra classes improves children’s cognitive test scores, using data from the second and third rounds of the Young Lives survey in Vietnam. Using a standard value-added model, we find that that the number of hou
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Child abuse and neglect in the UK today
This is the first report from the NSPCC's research study of child maltreatment in the United Kingdom. The findings provide the only UK-wide research-based indication of the prevalence and impact of child abuse and neglect. It was found that the rates of c
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Children and adolescents without parental care in Latin America: Contexts, causes and consequences of the deprivation of the right to community- family- based care
This paper is based on the Latin American Report 'Children and adolescents without parental care in Latin America- Contexts, causes and consequences of the deprivation of the right to community- family- based care', which was prepared using reports from 1