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This brief provides an overview of the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Migration Hub, established by Save the Children in Panama to support migration work in the region. The Hub is a flexible and cost-effective platform designed to address sustained and systemic needs of refugees and migrants in countries of origin, transit, destination, as well as issues of social and economic integration and re-integration in the region. The Hub complements and supports Save the Children’s extensive humanitarian responses in the region and works to increase Save the Children’s…
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 Unified Resolution from the Twenty-First Pan-American Child and Adolescent Congress highlights resolutions, declarations, recommendations and general comments relevant to violence against children, made by various treaty bodies and general assemblies. The Resolution recognizes the legislative impact the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has had in the Inter-American System and the progress Member States have made in addressing violence against children. The Resolution also considers the imperatives and responsibilities of Member States to maintain and increase efforts…
In advance of the 21st Pan American Child and Adolescent Congress, the United Nations General Assembly, the Government of Brazil, together with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Latin American and Caribbean Chapter of the Global Movement for Children, and the NGO Group on Children without Parental Care based in New York, convened an international consultation on the elimination of violence against children in alternative care. Experts in government and civil society gathered together to…
This document, published by Catholic Relief Services, urges members of the Catholic faith community to consider the best interests of the child when partnering, or “twinning” with parishes in Haiti and undertaking charitable activities. “Twinning,” says the report is the practice of Catholic congregations, or parishes, in the United States partnering with parishes in Haiti and providing support, money, resources, and volunteers to those parishes. These activities often include directing resources toward children in orphanages in Haiti. The problem with this support, says Catholic Relief…