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Every five minutes a child dies from violence. Around the world a staggering 1.7 billion children experience violence every single year. In every country and culture, children are facing abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence. Violations include sexual exploitation and abuse, trafficking, physical and humiliating punishment, harmful traditional practices such as early marriage and female genital mutilation/cutting and recruitment into armed forces and groups.

Every child has the right to be safe. Save the Children works to ensure that violence against children is no longer tolerated. We work with children, families, communities and societies to put in place laws, policies and services to support children, and promote social norm and attitude changes. We work to prevent and respond to all forms of abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence affecting children.

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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

    Publication year: 2010 Publisher(s): Save the Children International

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    Fact Sheet- Child Protection in Emergencies

    Save the Children’s Child Protection Initiative (CPI) fact sheet about "Child Protection in Emergencies" looks at the the main protection dangers that children face in an emergency and how to address them. During emergencies, children run many risks. They

    Publication year: 2010 Publisher(s): Save the Children International

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    Save the Children's Child Protection Video

    The Child Protection Initiative has produced an animated video that communicates Save the Children's child protection work and the impact on children's lives as seen by children. "Violence against children is no longer tolerated" is the new Global Breakth

    Publication year: 2015 Publisher(s): Save the Children

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    Fact sheet- Children without appropriate care

    A Save the Children fact sheet looking at key aspects of child protection with special focus on the sub-theme "children without appropriate care", which encompasses children who are not receiving suitable, continuous and quality care, nurture and guidance

    Publication year: 2010 Publisher(s): Save the Children International

  5. Save the Children Psychological First Aid Training Manual for Child Practitioners

    The Psychological First Aid Training Manual for Child Practitioners (PFA) was developed by Save the Children Denmark for the Child Protection Initiative, to facilitate training in psychological first aid with a focus on children. It is aimed at developing

    Publication year: 2013 Publisher(s): Save the Children Denmark Author(s): Dybdal, Anne-Sophie | Melin, Mie | Terlonge, Pernille

  6. Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme 4th Cycle Asia Pacific: Residential Training Report

    Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme (CPiE PDP) is a six-month capacity building programme for mid-level child protection in emergencies practitioners. In the Asia Pacific region, three cycles have been completed since 2016 a

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): Save the Children

  7. Stop the War on Children: Protecting children in 21st century conflict

    At least 100,000 babies die every year because of conflict More children are living in areas affected by armed conflict than at any time over the past two decades. At least 550,000 babies are thought to have died as a result of armed conflict between 2013

    Publication year: 2019 Publisher(s): Save the Children International Author(s): Graham, George | Kirollos, Mariam | Fylkesnes, Gunvor Knag | Salarkia, Keyan | ...

  8. Impact Evaluation of the Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting Programme (PDEP)

    The Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting (PDEP) programme is based on the theory that a person’s behavioural beliefs determine whether the person perceives that behaviour as positive or negative. It is designed to reduce parents’ approval of physical

    Publication year: 2019 Publisher(s): Save the Children Sweden | FCG, Swedish Development AB Author(s): Balogun, Paul | Smulders, Ans | Lindström, Johanna

  9. Safeguarding in Emergencies Toolkit

    Save the Children’s vital humanitarian work represents around 50% of all the work that we do and is often made up of a mix of life-saving and life-sustaining work. Because of this, humanitarian workers are placed in a position of trust by the populations

    Publication year: 2019 Publisher(s): Save the Children International Author(s): Carter, Cat

  10. Road to Recovery: Responding to children's mental health in conflict

    The briefing paper sets out the scale of mental health effects on children living in conflict zones and the role of education in responding to them. Latest figures reveal that 142 million children are living in high intensity conflict zones. As set out in

    Publication year: 2019 Publisher(s): Save the Children International Author(s): Cowley, Anya | Edwards, Jess | Salarkia, Keyan

  11. Strengthening Child Protection Systems: Guidance for country offices

    Strengthening child protection systems is at the heart of Save the Children’s child protection programming. This guidance builds on learning from our work, as well that of others in the child protection sector. Building child protection systems is a prior

    Publication year: 2019 Publisher(s): Save the Children UK

  12. Family Strengthening: A collection of best practices from Eastern Europe

    In December 2018, Save the Children (SC) commissioned the knowledge organization International Child Development Initiatives (ICDI) to do an assessment on best practices of Family Strengthening interventions in middle-income countries. The aim is to provi

    Publication year: 2019 Publisher(s): Save the Children Kosovo | Save the Children International | ... Author(s): de Vos, Sarah | van Sloten, Bep | Euwema, Mathijs

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Child Protection Global Theme

Child Protection is one of five global themes prioritized by Save the Children to deliver its new strategy.

Children have an absolute right to be safe. Yet girls and boys in every country, in every culture and at every social level face forms of abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence. These violations include sexual exploitation and abuse, trafficking, physical and humiliating punishment, harmful traditional practices (including early marriage and female genital mutilation/cutting) and recruitment into armed forces and groups.

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