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Children First and Foremost: A guide to realising the rights of children and families in an irregular migration situation
This guide is the result of PICUM's two year project “Building Strategies to Improve the Protection of Undocumented Children in Europe”, which aimed to spread understanding of the challenges children in an irregular migration situation face in accessing t
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Unspeakable Crimes: Changing the law. Preventing sexual violence against children in conflict – the changes in law that need to happen
Save the Children's newly released Policy Brief 'Unspeakable Crimes: Changing the Law ' highlights specific reforms to protect child survivors and empower them to seek justice. While international criminal courts and tribunals have helped to develop int
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Child safety online: Global challenges and strategies
Innocenti's new report, prepared in partnership with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) in the UK, discusses the nature and scale of sexual abuse and exploitation of children online. The report pinpoints key areas that are essentia
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Fact Sheet- Child Protection
A fact sheet looking at several aspects of child protection and the needs and priorities of vulnerable children. Children in every country, every culture and at every social level face various forms of abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence. The abuse
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Participation and Violence: Executive summary and conclusions
This is a summarised version of the study “Promotion of Protagonist and Meaningful Participation of Children and Adolescents Exposed to Violence”, and it comprises only the executive summary and the conclusions, recommendations and strategies of the origi
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An exploratory study on the interplay between African customary law and practices and children's protection rights in South Africa
A Save the Children Sweden study entitled ”An exploratory study on the interplay between African customary law and practices and children’s protection rights in South Africa”, initially launched at a conference on the Status of Children’s Rights in Southe
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Ending corporal punishment of children. A handbook for working with and within religious communities
A handbook for working with and within religious communities on how to end corporal punishment of children, developed jointly by Global Initiative to End all Corporal Punishment of Children, Churches’ Network for Non Violence and Save the Children Sweden.
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Children's rights and business principles initiative: Executive summary of mapping of links between business and children rights
This Executive Summary has been prepared to frame the development of the Children’s Rights and Business Principles (CRBP), a joint initiative by UNICEF, the UN Global Compact and Save the Children that seeks to outline the full range of actions that busin
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Out from the shadows: Sexual violence against children with disabilities
A report that sheds light on the shocking issue of sexual violence against children with disabilities. All over the world, children with disabilities are suffering from sexual violence at the hands of perpetrators who operate with almost total impunity. A
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Priority to protect: Preventing children’s association with village defence militias in southern Thailand
This joint report from Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers and Justice for Peace Foundation focuses on evidence of the association of boys under the age of 18 with Chor Ror Bor (Village Defence Volunteers), one of the government-established villag
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The legal status of unaccompanied children within international, European and national frameworks: Protective standards vs Restrictive implementation
The PUCAFREU project involves conducting research into the situation of unaccompanied children living in the European Union space and staying unprotected outside the care and the control of State authorities.This document constitutes a first stage of the
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Schools and Armed Conflict: A global survey of domestic laws and state practice protecting schools from attack and military use
This 160-page report by Human Rights Watch highlights the negative impact on education due to attacks on schools by armed groups. Based on a survey in 56 countries, the report examines policies and legislations to protect schools from militancy. Between D