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Children's Right to be Heard: We're talking; are you listening?
Nearly a year since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, children worldwide continue to grapple with unprecedented hardships. However, the virus did not destroy children’s resolve to find and use their voices as forces for change. This brief explores fa
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Our Europe, Our Rights, Our Future: Children and young people's contribution to the new EU strategy on the Rights of the Child and the Child Guarantee
The European Union (EU) is committed to promoting and protecting the rights of children. It is undertaking two major pieces of work to contribute to making this commitment a reality: • A Strategy on the Rights of the Child, 2021-2024 • A Child Guarantee t
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Counting Pennies 2: Analysis of official development assistance to end violence against children
Violence against children impacts more than one billion children and costs world economies US$7 trillion annually. In 2015, the world’s leaders listed violence against children as one of the top priorities in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, t
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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