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Beyond Orphanhood: Rethinking Vulnerability in Ethiopia
‘Orphans’ as a category of vulnerable children came to the fore in the context of the global AIDS crisis. Currently the notion of ‘Orphans and Vulnerable Children’ (or OVCs) dominates much of the child protection debates across sub-Saharan Africa. Data fr
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I'd rather be hit with a stick…Grades are sacred': Students' Perceptions of Discipline and Authority in a Public High School in Peru
This working paper discusses views and experiences of discipline and punishment in everyday schooling among a group of boys and girls aged between 14 and 16 years old attending a public high school in an urban Andean city in Peru. It draws on data collect
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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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‘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
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Corporal punishment of children in Ethiopia [Desk review]
Save the Children Sweden-Ethiopia (SCS Ethiopia) has made the protection of children from physical and humiliating punishment one of its top priority areas of involvement. Research studies have established that physical and humiliating punishment is highl
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Violence Against Children in Tanzania: Findings from a National Survey 2009
Violence against children is a serious human rights, social and public health issue in Tanzania, as in many other parts of the world. Violence erodes the strong foundation that children need to lead healthy and productive lives. The results from the first
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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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Positive Discipline Techniques to Promote Positive Behaviour in Children. Training Manual for Facilitators
'Positive Discipline Techniques to Promote Positive Behaviour in Children' is a training manual for facilitators. In order to raise awareness and build capacity in positive behaviour and discipline, Save the Children has developed this stand-alone module,
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Workers in the Shadows: Abuse and exploitation of child domestic workers in Indonesia
This report documents how hundreds of thousands of girls in Indonesia, some as young as 11, are employed as domestic workers in other people’s households, performing tasks such as cooking, cleaning, laundry, and child care. Most girls interviewed for the
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Bearing the brunt again. Child Rights Violations during Operation Cast Lead
This joint report by Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights and Defence for Children International, illustrates the scale and range of serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law perpetrated by the Israeli army during Operation Cast Le
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We Can Work it Out Manual [Arabic]
The We Can Work it Out manual is for everyone working with parents. With great cartoons throughout, it provides material for a half-day workshop that gets parents thinking about how they can manage their children's behaviour without resorting to emotional
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Psychosocial Assessment of Education in Gaza and Recommendations for Response
A UNESCO-commissioned assessment of the psychosocial impact of the ongoing blockade and military campaigns on the education system in Gaza. The research, conducted by Kathleen Kostelny and Michael Wessels of the Columbia Group for Children in Adversity, a