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ARC Resource Pack (Actions for the rights of the children)
A capacity-building tool for child protection in and after emergencies The ARC resource pack is an interagency collaboration. These materials can be used or reproduced without fee or prior permission, but the source should always be referenced as the ARC
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Recueil de références ARC (Action ev faveur des droits de l'enfant) Version française
Un outil du renforcement de capacité pour la protection de l’enfance en situation d’urgence et de post-urgence. Ce recueil de références ARC est le produit d'une collaboration inter-agences. L'utilisation ou la reproduction de l'ensemble de ce matériel es
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Paquete de recursos ARC (Acción por los derechos de la niñez) Versión española
Bienvenidos al Paquete de Recursos ARC El Paquete de recursos ARC es producto de la colaboración interagencial. Este material puede ser utilizado y reproducido total o parcialmente, sin necesidad de pago o permiso previos, siempre y cuando sea citado como
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Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism (A/HCR/40/28)
The full range of the impacts of terrorism and counter-terrorism on children cannot be addressed in a single report. In addition to the harms examined in the present report, terrorist groups may engage in trafficking, hostage-taking for ransom, harmful tr
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Revealing the Rainbow: The human rights situation of Southeast Asia’s LGBTIQ communities and their defenders
Just over a decade ago, the United Nations (UN) introduced a new process for periodically evaluating the human rights performances of each its Member States. That process, known as the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), during the review Member States recei
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Rights of the Child: Towards better investment in the rights of the child
The 28th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) concluded at the end of March 2015. The Council dedicated one day to the rights of the child; the theme for the year being "Better Investment in the Rights of the Child", which resulted in the following U
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Background Paper on Attacks Against Girls Seeking Access to Education
This report provides an assessment of attacks on schools and what impact this has had on girls' education. Produced by the Women's Human Rights and Gender (WRG) section of the OHCHR, it finds cultural, social, political, and economic obstacles to educatio
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Detained Youth: The fate of young migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees in Libya today
This study provides information on the current and ongoing detention of young migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees in Libya. Through in-depth interviews with former detainees, serious violations are revealed to have occurred in Libya’s immigration detent
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Towards better investment in the rights of the child- Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
The present report sets out the obligations of States to invest adequately in the rights of children, in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights commissioned this report in preparatio
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A Better Way to Protect ALL Children: The Theory and Practice of Child Protection Systems. Conference Report, UNICEF 2013
Report of the ‘A Better Way to Protect ALL Children: The theory and practice of child protection systems’ conference held in New Delhi in November 2012, prepared to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and to stimulate discussion about child protection
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A Practical Guide for Civil Society: Universal Periodic Review
This guide provides a practical overview of how to participate in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and is targeting civil society. It also includes guidelines for stakeholder submissions.
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Evaluating Human Rights Training Activities. A Handbook for Human Rights Educators
Human rights education can contribute to its noble goals only if it is methodologically sound and fully relevant to the learners, so as to have a genuine empowering or sensitizing effect. Ensuring and measuring such impact on the learners and their commun