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Psychosocial health
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Why didn't they tell us? On sexual abuse in child pornography
Under the aegis of Save the Children Sweden, the first reports about child pornography and child prostitution in Sweden appeared in 1991 and 1994 (55, 56). After the discovery of the Huddinge child pornography ring, there was an intensified debate about c
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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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Stopping violence against children. The Tanzania Violence against Children Study and the National Response
This report lists the key features of Tanzania's National Plan of Action to Prevent and Respond to Violence Against Children. It is the national response plan to the critical concerns identified by the 2009 Violence against Children Survey report led by t
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Presentation: High Level expert consultation on tackling violence in schools, Oslo, 27-28 June 2011
A presentation given to the High Level Expert Consultation on tackling violence in schools, held in Oslo, 27-28 June 2011, in the framework of Save the Children's education project “Violence against children in schools".The presentation includes a series
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Violence faite aux enfants en milieu scolaire au Mali
This joint publication by Plan and Save the Children is based on a field survey conducted in 2009 on the perceptions of local communities regarding school violence. Aimed at policy makers, civil society organisations, local communities, families and child
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Equal Protection for Children. An overview of the experience of countries that accord children full legal protection from physical punishment
In the UK, the continued existence of the defence allowing parents to use ‘reasonable chastisement’ when disciplining their children remains a barrier to fully respecting children as human beings in their own right. This report, published by NSPCC, seeks
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El derecho de los niños y las niñas a jugar. Análisis de la importancia del juego en las las vidas de niños y niñas de todo el mundo
In this working paper, Wendy Russell and Stuart Lester of the UK's University of Gloucestershire discuss why play is fundamental to the health and well-being of children. They argue that both state signatories to the United Nations Convention on the Right
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Sport & Development- A summary of SAD's experiences and good practices
This report provides an overview of four of its Sport & Development pilot projects that examine the use of sport as a tool for reaching development and humanitarian objectives. This report aims to uncover the development potential of sport in three post-c
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Children in hazardous work. What we know- What we need to know
This report reviews the current state of knowledge concerning children in hazardous work and presents the case for a new focus on the issue as part of the wider global effort to eliminate the worst forms of child labour. The report highlights recent globa
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Working with children and their environment. Manual of psychosocial skills
A new manual developed by Terre des hommes (Tdh) answers pressing questions: which are the skills needed by professionals working with children? How can they be improved and afterwards assessed? Because today we know that special skills are required to be
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Defining Success: Developing Locally Meaningful Indicators for Child-centered Psychosocial Programming in Uganda
How can we measure the impact of community-based psychosocial programs on the sustained well-being of children and families? This question was addressed by the Child Protection in Crisis Learning Network through its 2010 ethnographic study in Uganda. Inte
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‘And So They Ordered Me to Kill a Person’: Conceptualizing the impacts of child soldiering on the development of moral agency
Approximately 300,000 child soldiers serve in various armed groups around the world and become directly implicated in the perpetration of kidnappings, killings, and torture. Considering that children construct moral concepts and a sense of themselves as m