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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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Aspiration Failure: A poverty trap for indigenous children in Peru? Young Lives Working Paper No. 116
This paper aims to contribute to understand the mechanisms underlying the complex exclusion process of indigenous people in Peru, by analysing the role played by aspirations in the investment in education of indigenous children. Aspirations of indigenous
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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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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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Equity and Inclusion for All in Education
The Global Campaign for Education’s report explores issues of marginalisation beyond gender, including disability, ethnicity and geographical location, and their implications for educational access and achievement. It undertakes a systematic analysis of t
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Boletín sobre políticas públicas sobre infancia en el Perú [Abril 2012]
This paper examines the policy of Intercultural Bilingual Education (abbreviated to EIB in Spanish), a policy intended to give indigenous children in Peru access to education relevant to their linguistic and cultural background. However, there are not eno
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Mexico: Briefing to the UN Committee on the elimination of discrimination against women
Amnesty International's submission to the United Nations (UN) Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (the Committee), in advance of its examination of the combined seventh and eighth periodic report of Mexico. This briefing reflects
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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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¿Está el piso parejo para los niños del Perú? Medición y comprensión de la evaluación de las oportunidades
The World Bank and The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) Working Group report '¿Está el piso parejo para los niños del Perú?” [Is the Playing Field Leveling in Peru?], measures the evolution of children’s opportunit
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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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Peacebuilding Tool for a Conflict-Sensitive Approach to Development: A pilot initiative in Nepal
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) works with a number of developing member countries facing fragile and conflict-affected situations—circumstances that complicate economic development, and might include domestic or international conflict, ethnic tensions,