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Background: There is a societal need to institutionalize child protection mechanisms and services for monitoring of children subjected to abuse and exploitation. The aim of the study was to assess the occurrence of violence among orphaned children and its consequences on their physical and psychological health status.
Subjects & methods: a descriptive analytical study design was utilized at three randomly selected orphanage institutions-Menofia Governorate, Egypt. All children and adolescents from 6-18 years residents at the selected orphanage home (n=125) were included…
This report, from the African Child Policy Forum, is aimed at informing and accelerating pan-African, regional and national efforts to prevent and respond to violence against children. The report provides an overview of violence against children, including its nature and magnitude in the African continent. The report outlines the primary forms of violence against children - physical violence, neglect, sexual violence, mental and psychological violence, and cultural practices that involve physical or emotional harm - as well as the contexts in which violence may occur, including in the home,…
WHAT: A handbook that identifies and addresses issues of child protection in education in Southern Sudan, and mobilizes communities into action to make schools protective and nurturing learning environments. Covers safeguarding children from abuse, exploitation and violence, as well as identifying and responding to abuse.
WHO: Teachers, education authorities, parent-teacher associations, and social and community workers involved in the care, protection and education of children.
WHERE: While based upon …
Based on research undertaken in 2003, evidence indicated that an average of 110 new born babies were being abandoned in Khartoum every month. Half were estimated to die before receiving any assistance while those who survived abandonment were admitted to a state orphanage.
Social stigma attached to children born out of wedlock: while Islam positively values the care of orphaned and abandoned children by others, the legal recognition of the relationship between the orphaned child and their caregivers is based on the system of Kafala — the Islamic duty to save any…
The Israeli intelligence services (Shabak) continually seek to recruit Palestinian children as informants. A field survey with former child detainees conducted in 2003 by DCI-PS, estimated that 60 per cent of the children interviewed, some of them as young as 12, were reported to have been tortured or subjected to other forms of coercion or inducement in an attempt to make them cooperate. By late 2003 in Gaza alone there were on average 40 attempts to recruit minors every month.
Children accused of being recruited as informants by the Israeli authorities are at risk of stigmatization,…
This paper draws on interviews with children on the street, in corrective institutions and in low-income households to describe the pressures that eject them from homes, and the abuse and exploitation they have suffered at the hands of the police, the corrective institutions and, often, their own families. It also describes the inappropriate laws and public attitudes that underlie such problems.
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"A BBC News Arabic investigation has uncovered systemic child abuse and evidence of sexual abuse inside Islamic schools in Sudan," says the description of this video from BBC News. "For 18 months, reporter Fateh Al-Rahman Al-Hamdani filmed inside 23 schools across the country. Boys as young as five-years-old were routinely chained, shackled and beaten by the sheikhs or religious men in charge of the schools."