Zimbabwe

Demographic Data:

  • Total Population: 15,245,855
  • Population under 15: 41.6%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 57.5 years
  • Human Development Index: 155 out of 188 
  • World Bank Status: Low Income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence (age 15-49): 16.7%
  • Mean Household Composition: 4.1 persons
  • Female-Headed Households: 44.6%

Sources: World Bank, UNDP, DHS 2010-11

 

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Sarah McIvor Murray, Paul Bolton, Jeremy C. Kane, Daniel P. Lakin, Stephanie Skavenski Van Wyk, Ravi Paul, Laura K. Murray - Assessment,

The authors of this paper sought to explore the psychometric properties and validity of the Achenbach Youth Self-Report and Child Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Scale among orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) living in Lusaka, Zambia.

Associated Press,

The United Nations human rights office has called on the United States to "immediately halt" its current policy of separating parents and children who enter into the country without authorization.

The Inter-Agency Network of Education in Emergencies (INEE) and the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Alliance) ,

The aim of this consultancy is to develop an evidence-based framing paper for the joint meeting of INEE and Alliance, which will explore opportunities and discuss bottlenecks for joint and integrated education and child protection programming in humanitarian action.

The Inter-Agency Network of Education in Emergencies (INEE) and the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Alliance),

The aim of this consultancy is to effectively design, facilitate and document discussions during a joint education/child protection 2-day roundtable in October 2018.

Association of Family and Conciliation Courts,

This conference will focus on addressing the role of trauma in family courts and the judicial system and advancing the system’s response to the needs of families. It will be held in Washington, DC on 6-9 June 2018.

Maryse Bournel-Bosson, Michèle Grossen - Learning, Culture and Social Interaction,

This study explores how the social workers and the families cope with the paradox of constrained help and enter into some form of collaboration.

Margaret Grant & Alan Rushton - Children and Youth Services Review,

This paper seeks to contribute to debates about how people's adult lives unfold after experiencing childhood adversity. It presents analysis from the British Chinese Adoption Study: a mixed methods follow-up study of women, now aged in their 40s and early 50s, who spent their infant lives in Hong Kong orphanages and were then adopted by families in the UK in the 1960s.

International Social Service-USA (ISS-USA), MK Family Law, The George Washington University School of Law, and Leslie Ellen Shear, Attorney and Counselor at Law,

This day-long conference, Cross-Border Family Mediation: Dispute Resolution for International Families In Your Community, will be held on June 5, 2018 in Washington, D.C.

Alison Gerard, Andrew McGrath, Emma Colvin, Kath McFarlane - Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology,

In this study, the authors interviewed 46 professionals who had contact with young people in residential care settings in New South Wales, Australia about their perceptions of the link between residential care and contact with the criminal justice system.

Sumir Karmakar - Telegraph India,

India's National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), in its efforts to "monitor the implementation of the Juvenile Justice (care and protection) Act of 2015," has compiled a report enumerating the number of children in child care homes and institutions throughout the country, according to this article from the Telegraph India.