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Joint Position Paper on a Comprehensive Child Rights Strategy
The EU’s intention to develop a comprehensive Child Rights Strategy represents an important opportunity for the EU to champion the rights of the child within its borders and across the world. This position paper presents a set of key principles to guide t
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Joint Appeal for Effective Response and Mitigation of Impact of COVID-19 on the Children in Bangladesh
While the world is grappling with the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Bangladesh also starts being affected. Joining Forces Bangladesh appreciates the measures taken by the Government of Bangladesh that includes enforcing nationwide spora
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Small Voices, Big Dreams 2019: Violence against children as explained by children
No child is completely immune to violence. Each year, nearly one billion children are afflicted by some type of physical, sexual, emotional violence or neglect, across different geographical, socioeconomic and cultural barriers. Listening to children and
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The Global Climate Crisis: A child rights crisis
Climate change arguably poses the single greatest challenge to the realisation of children’s rights, and threatens to undercut decades of hard-won progress to improve their lives. Despite being least responsible for this unfolding crisis, children bear th
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Unlocking Cambodia's Future
This report represents six priority areas for investment in child rights that can overcome these two key obstacles of inequality and rapidly changing context. Identified as "game changers", they represent significant shifts in the current way of doing thi
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A Second Revolution: Thirty years of child rights and the unfinished agenda
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted 30 years ago, has contributed to a transformation of historic proportions. On most measures, the lives of children today are on average dramatically better than 30 years ago. Hundreds of millions more
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Significantly Reducing Rates of Child Malnutrition: Unlocking Cambodia's future
The number of children suffering from malnutrition in Cambodia has decreased in recent years. However, the rate of progress remains slow and continues to threaten the development of human capital in the country. Malnutrition does not only constitute an is
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Amplifying Meaningful Child Participation in Decision Making: Unlocking Cambodia's future
Children and adolescents are key drivers for the development and economic future of Cambodia. Despite this, children's participation in policymaking and decisions that impact them has been limited, and entrenched gender norms have prohibited girls' partic
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Improving Access to Quality Basic Education: Unlocking Cambodia's future
Children in Cambodia are entitled to nine years of free education. However, certain groups of children struggle to access quality education at different stages in their lives. For example, disabled girls and children with intellectual disabilities are two
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Training Manual on Republic Act 10821 and the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
In 2007, the Philippines adopted the humanitarian cluster approach with the issuance of National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) Circular No. 05, s. 2007 (Institutionalization of the Cluster Approach in the Philippine Disaster Management System). Amo
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Counting Pennies: A review of official development assistance to end violence against children
The first of its kind, Counting Pennies reviews official development assistance (ODA) to end violence against children. The report found that in 2015, total ODA spending was $174 billion and of that, less than 0.6 per cent was allocated to ending violence
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Child-Centred Adaptation: Realising children's rights in a changing climate
Children are among the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In developing countries, climate change is projected to exacerbate the top five causes of death for children under five. The analysis that follows shows that children should be a foc