This article focuses on the confinement of children with disabilities to institutions, social care centers, psychiatric hospitals, and informal traditional healing centers in which children may be detained on the basis of their disability and with no other options for care.

This Declaration from the International General Assembly of Defense for Children International (DCI) specifies global, thematic and issues of concern.  

The present report was submitted to the UN Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict and focuses on the trends and patterns of the six categories of grave violations committed against children. 

“Is every child counted” provides a status report on the data availability of child related SDG indicators showing that sufficient data is available only for half of those; the report also identifies priorities for enhancing the collection, analysis and use of data for children.

Save the Children is in search of a Regional Program Manager to work on its Regional Senior Management Team in Panama City, Panama.  The initial contract term is two years initially.

TEAM/PROGRAMME:

This Evidence Brief provides an overview of the systematic review. 

This Executive Summary provides an overview of the systematic review. 

In November 2015, ASPIRES launched an online survey of practitioners to identify potential sources of learning and to assess needs for improving the use of economic strengthening (ES) interventions in reintegration and prevention of separation programming. This brief report summarizes the findings of this survey.

Increasing evidence suggests that intimate partner violence (IPV) and child maltreatment (CM) by a parent or caregiver intersect on a number of levels. This scoping review defines the intersections between IPV and CM and explores opportunities for more coordinated approaches to address both forms of violence. 

This Special Issue of the Journal of Psychology, Health and Medicine contains fifteen of several papers commissioned by the Know Violence Initiative. Together, these papers illustrate the complexity of violence experienced by children and present evidence-based strategies for addressing and preventing childhood violence.