The Mantle Blog: Watching Over Our Children
Japan has been urged by the United States and 7 other countries to address its international child welfare provisions for family law cases involving custody disputes. Japan has also not... read more Posted on 03-11-2010
Tis the Season to Learn About Chocolate
Before you decide to purchase some holiday chocolate, you might want to re consider your dessert and treat options this season. With only 28 days til Christmas and a recession in... read more Posted on 12-01-2009
Protection on Children and Adolescents in Complex Emergencies
In November 1998, the Norwegian Refugee Council and Redd Barna (Save the Children Norway) hosted a conference on protection of children1 and adolescents in complex emergencies, in co-operation with the... read more Posted on 11-24-2009
Internally Displaced Children and Adolescents
Three-quarters of the world’s 25 million people internally displaced by conflict are believed to be women and children. This paper is an introduction to the impact of displacement onchildren, the... read more Posted on 11-24-2009
Refugee Girls: The Invisible Faces of War
This document from the Womens Refugee Commission shows that because of their powerlessness, adolescent girls in refugee situations are more vulnerable to forced marriage, sexual slavery and forms of gender-based... read more Posted on 11-23-2009
Scars of Exploitation Bleed (Red): A Film by Rachel Elin
This short documentary, Scars of Exploitation Bleed (RED) focuses on the paradoxical link between global consumption, production, and charity. With a focus on the (RED) Campaign, the film questions the... read more Posted on 11-22-2009
Social Protection for Children and their Families: A Global Overview
This paper explores social protections as receiving increasing attention in both the high-income industrialized countries and the middle- and low-income countries. It notes that children constitute the largest vulnerable group... read more Posted on 11-21-2009
Child Trafficking
The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre has a website dedicated to data collection, knowledge transfer and the development of methodologies related to research on child trafficking. It is intended for international... read more Posted on 11-18-2009
Trafficking in Women and Children The number of people migrating for work is on the rise with women constituting at least half those seeking to benefit from labour opportunities abroad. Yet the very act of migration carries immense risks. Those seeking work abroad often lack... read more
Child Trafficking The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre has a website dedicated to data collection, knowledge transfer and the development of methodologies related to research on child trafficking. It is intended for international researchers, policy-makers and operational personnel involved in counter child... read more
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