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Harmful Cultural Practice
Harm is the result of the exploitation, violence, abuse and neglect of children and can take many forms, including impacts on children's physical, emotional and behavioural development, their general health, their family and social relationships, their self-esteem, their educational attainment and their aspirations.
In some context, the term ‘significant harm’ is used within the protection system to determine the threshold of harm required before intervention by protection services can be undertaken. This approach seeks to balance the potential risk posed to the child facing the protection issue with the real risks that may come with the intervention itself.
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State of World Population 2020: Against my will- Defying the practices that harm women and girls and undermine equality
Opening with a powerful Call to Action from UNFPA's Executive Director and United Nations Under-Secretary-General Dr. Natalia Kanem, this report focuses on three harmful practices: femal genital mutilation (FGM), child marriage, and son preference. Year 2
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Technical Note on COVID-19 and Harmful Practices
As the COVID-19 pandemic is spreading across the world, it is impacting efforts to end child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM). Hundreds of millions of children and adolescents will likely face increasing threats to their safety, including gend
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The Potential of a Community-led Approach to Change Harmful Gender Norms in Low- and Middle-income Countries
Many of the programmes that achieve gender norms transformation in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are conducted at ‘community’ level. These programmes help people address existing relations of gender and power in their family and broader social
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Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices on Violence and Harmful Practices Against Children in Afghanistan: A baseline study
Since 2012, Save the Children (SCI) has been working with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) on a Holistic Child Protection Programme in Afghanistan. A key component of the program has focused on child protection systems stren
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Physical Violence and Other Harmful Practices in Humanitarian Situations
With an increasing number of children being affected by emergencies throughout the world iv and considering the pervasiveness of violence, a better understanding of children’s exposure to physical violence and other harmful practices in humanitarian conte
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Save the Children's Child Protection Video
The Child Protection Initiative has produced an animated video that communicates Save the Children's child protection work and the impact on children's lives as seen by children. "Violence against children is no longer tolerated" is the new Global Breakth
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CPMS Video Series: Standard 8, Physical violence and other harmful practices
This video provides an overview of Standard 8: Physical Violence and Other Harmful Practices of the CPMS (Child Protection Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Action). When using these videos, we strongly recommend you refer to the attached Facilitator’s No
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Ending Child Marriage in Africa: A brief by Girls not Brides
Girls Not Brides is a civil society partnership of more than 400 member organisations that are based in over 60 countries. They work to end child marriage around the world by working at grassroots, national and global levels. This brief presents an overvi
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Eliminating Harmful Cultural and Social Practices Affecting Children: Our Collective Responsibility
This report presents findings from consultative meetings, conducted by the Zimbabwe Youth Council, on Harmful Social and Cultural Practices that affect children in Zimbabwe. The study was funded by UNICEF. Although not entirely unique, this study compleme
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The Protection of Minors Against Excesses of Sects
This is a provisional version of Resolution 1992 from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. This resolution addresses child protection guidelines in instances where the excesses of religious sects lead to exploitation and abuse of or traff
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Save the Children Brief: Violence against children is no longer tolerated
Save the Children believes that children have a right to live a life without violence, exploitation, abuse and neglect, and in 2015 it is unacceptable that violence against children still takes place. We know that violence against children is a reality th
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Child Protection in Emergencies Facts and Figures
Compiled by the Child Protection Working Group (CPWG), this report presents facts and figures on child protection in emergencies. Data was collected for the 42 countries that have a Humanitarian Coordinator or that were on the Inter-Agency's Standing Comm