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Background
In 2010, El Salvador introduced legislation aimed at reforming the country's Child Protective System (CPS), with a focus on promoting deinstitutionalization.
Objective
The study aim was to explore the impact of …
Humanitarian Action is at the core of UNICEF’s mandate to realize the rights of every child. This edition of Humanitarian Action for Children – UNICEF’s annual humanitarian fundraising appeal – describes the ongoing crises affecting children on the move and COVID-19 in Mexico and Central America (including unaccompanied and separated children); the strategies that UNICEF is using to respond to these situations; and the donor support that is essential in this response.
The primary purpose of this report is to recommend evidencebased strategies to improve the relevance and effectiveness of field interventions that target development outcomes for girls on the move in Central America and Mexico. This report consolidates findings from a rapid participatory consultation with: (1) migrant girls in the Southern Mexico border region, (2) front-line practitioners providing services to migrant children and their families, and (3) Save the Children teams in Mexico.
The aim of the research was to:
a) Elucidate how gender and gender norms impact girls’…
This fact sheet presents an overview of the data found in El Salvador’s Violence Against Children Survey.
Key highlights include:
14% of girls experienced sexual violence in childhood.
22% of girls experienced physical violence in childhood.
9% of girls and young women who experienced pressured or physically forced sex…
Abstract
An emerging literature explores the experiences of Central American unaccompanied youth en route to the US border and a growing number of studies examine what happens once they arrive. However, we know less about their pre-migration context or the effectiveness of in-country youth development programs thought to deter them from migrating. We address this gap by drawing on survey data gathered from young people in El Salvador who participate in Youth Outreach Centers (n = 445). These Centers are local community-based entities that provide youth services in precarious neighborhoods…
Prepared for the Agenda 2030 for Children: End Violence Solutions Summit, held in Stockholm, Sweden, on 14-15 February 2018, this report tracks progress towards prohibition and elimination of corporal punishment of children in Pathfinding countries. Under the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, these countries have committed to three to five years of accelerated action towards target 16.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): “End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children.”
The Solutions Summit aims to…
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as part of its examination of El Salvador's initial reports, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
Objectives
The number of youth who migrate alone to the United States is growing at an alarming rate, with the highest number of minors arriving in 2016 in the past decade. Unaccompanied minors (UMs) are separate from the refugee process and continue to arrive, despite the government’s allocation of refugees into the United States. The majority of youth crosses the border from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, and many experience physical, sexual, and emotional abuse during migration. Knowledge on the traumas that this hidden, although expanding, group of youth experience, as well as…
This essay calls on Governments in the Central American Northern Triangle (CANT) region "to increase the quality of their political systems ... to contain forced displacement and allow for the return of those who had fled." The article examines the extreme violence and organized crime in the region that is causing many families and individuals to flee and become displaced, as well as the widespread forcible recruitment into gangs in the region, "creating a burden for families with children who are at risk and are usually forced to pay the gang to avoid forced recruitment." The…
This document discusses the comprehensive approach used by Save the Children to promote synergy between personal autonomy and economic development. Through this approach, Save the Children hopes to protect children and adolescents from violence, ensure access to education, employment, and enable them to choose to delay parenthood.
This program operates through three thematic areas: personal empowerment, sexual and reproductive health, and economic rights. This document provides an overview of Save the Children’s comprehensive approach by country. The countries included in this report…