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Psychosocial health
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The Social Rehabilitation of Palestinian Child Ex-Detainees: A Long Run to Freedom. A report to assess Palestinian children’s needs and rights after detention
Save the Children Sweden has provided direct support to children on the ground in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, with focus on child protection and education. Against this background, Save the Children Sweden together with the East Jerusalem YMCA con
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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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Well-being and resilience after the tsunami. Evaluation of Terre des hommes Psychosocial Programme in Sri Lanka 2005 – 2007. Final report
An evaluation of the Terre des hommes Foundation two year post-tsunami psychosocial project in Sri Lanka carried out by the Centre for Humanitarian Psychology between 2005 and 2006, in the wake of the natural disaster that hit Sri Lanka in the 2004 Indian
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Estilos de crianza y cuidado infantil en Santiago de Chile. Algunas reflexiones para comprender la violencia educativa en la familia
This publication presents the use of parental child rearing practices of children between 4- 9 years of age in the metropolitan area of the Chilean capital, particularly the infliction of corporal punishment. It contrasts models of child-rearing used by p
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Violence against children. The Voices of Ugandan Children and Adults
This publication discusses a research study in 2004 undertaken in five districts in Uganda. Over 1400 children discuss the various types of violence they experience at home, schools and in the community as well as how it makes children feel and their idea
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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