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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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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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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
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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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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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"Let me be me!": Better care for LGBTI children
Produced by Dreilinden in cooperation with SOS Children’s Villages International and Keeping Child Safe, this working paper presents a series of papers by different authors with the goal of improving practice in the area of LGBTI children in care settings
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The Right to Protection: Ending violence against children
This new report by SOS Children’s Villages International examines the different types of violence that children without parental care, a group particularly vulnerable to violence, are exposed to. The report also delves into the different projects that SOS
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Putting Children at the Heart of the World Humanitarian Summit
The right to be heard is a guiding principle of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Children have an important role to play in their own protection and in planning their communities’ response to an emergency. This literature review reflects the
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Youth-Friendly Version of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children
This document is a youth-friendly version of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children and was developed by members of the I Matter International Youth Council from SOS Children’s Villages International. It intentionally avoids using the legal t
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Violence Against Children and the Post-2015 Framework: Update No. 5- July 2014, Save the Children
This is the fifth in a series of updates on violence against children. These updates are sent on behalf of ChildFund Alliance, Plan International, Save the Children, SOS Children’s Villages International, UNICEF and World Vision International. They will k