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Psychosocial health
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Positive discipline techniques- Regional capacity building and advocacy workshop to replace corporal/physical and humiliating and degrading punishment of girls and boys
This report covers the Regional Capacity Building and Advocacy Workshop on Positive Discipline Techniques to Replace Corporal/Physical and Humiliating and Degrading Punishment of Girls and Boys, held at Jaipur, India, between 19th- 23rd April, 2004. The w
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Act, support and protect. South Asia Forum for Ending Violence against Children
This booklet describes, in a child-friendly way, outcomes of the South Asia Forum for Ending Violence Against Children held in Pakistan in July 2006. It summarises discussions on early marriage and physical and psychological punishment held by 12 children
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Life on the edge: The struggle to survive and the impact of forced displacement in high risk areas of the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Increasing numbers of families living in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) are being displaced as a result of evictions, house demolitions, land confiscation and military operations. This study approaches the problem of the living conditions in hig
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Colombia: Huellas del conflicto en la primera infancia
Colombia has been immersed in a civil war for more than fifty years in a brutal conflict between different armed groups. Young children are caught up in the long-running civil conflict, with a devastating impact on their lives and their physical and emoti
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Youth Soldiering: An integrated framework for understanding psychosocial impact
A pervasive characteristic of contemporary political violence is that youth, mostly between the ages of 14 and 18 years, are prominent actors in these hostilities. Seventy-two (72) different parties to armed conflict currently use children as soldiers. Th
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Silent Suffering- The psychosocial impact of war, HIV and other high-risk situations on girls and boys in West and Central Africa
The psychosocial impact of war, HIV and other high-risk situations on girls and boys in West and Central Africa. The regions of West and Central Africa are home to ever-growing numbers of suffering children. These are children who live on the streets, who
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Violencia en los pupitres
School violence is a taboo subject in Venezuelan society. How many acts of violence and aggressions are actually being committed in schools around the country? No one knows precisely, but there is a perceived increase in the level of school violence. "Vio
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Child Rights Situation Analysis: Right to Protection in the occupied Palestinian territory- 2008
This situation analysis explores the immediate and underlying root causes behind the non-realisation of Palestinian children’s rights to protection and education in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPT). The study focuses on the level of protection ava
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Behind the screen. An inside look at gender inequality in Asia
Gender inequality has planted its roots deeply and strongly alongside Asian ways of living. Together with poverty and other social issues such as child marriage and child labour, the disparity becomes dominant, preventing millions of girls, particularly i
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No más excusas: Acabando La Violencia Contra Los Niños y Las Niñas
In every society throughout the world children are subject to violence, often at the hands of those duty bound to care for and protect them. Children have a right to protection and to be free from all forms of violence, but this right is violated routinel
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Disciplining children with kindness. A Shiite Shari'a perspective
UNICEF is assisting countries all over the world to prevent violence against children and has worked with the government of Iran since 2005 in addressing child abuse. Cooperation includes technical assistance in legal reform, training of health workers on
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Baby-dumping and infanticide- Monograph No. 1
Infanticide and baby-dumping are crimes, but these acts are also cries for help. New mothers – especially young mothers – may feel overwhelmed by the idea of parenthood. They may have difficulty coping with the drastic physical and emotional changes they