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The End Violence Against Children (EVAC) program is a five-year global initiative launched by World Vision to fortify protections, ignite community movements and eradicate violence against vulnerable children by 2021. Violence against children takes many forms that include, physical, sexual and mental violence, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, harm or abuse, commercial sexual exploitation, trafficking, child labor, cyber abuse and other harmful practices.
Given that the Asia Pacific region faces an overwhelming number of children…
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Child trafficking remains a serious public concern in China, which is related to several forms of exploitation on children as well as threatens public security and endangers the stability of the country. This paper used the latest judgment documents from the court as a new data source, and identified the key nodes and trafficking paths by using a series of network indicators to enhance the public’s understanding of the crime mechanism of child trafficking. By contrast with the results of the previous literature, some new trends of child trafficking crime in China were discovered…
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Multiple studies have revealed that adolescent AIDS orphans have more psychosocial problems than healthy adolescents. However, little is known about whether and how the brain structures of adolescent AIDS orphans differ from those of healthy adolescents. Here, we used magnetic resonance imaging to compare adolescent AIDS orphans reared in institutions (N = 20) with a sex- and age-matched group of healthy adolescents reared in families (N = 20) in China using a voxel-based morphometry analysis. First, we found that both total gray- and white-matter…
This study, coordinated by the United Nations Inter-agency Project on Human Trafficking, draws findings from in-depth interviews with 252 trafficked persons about their experiences of (re)integration, including successes and challenges, as well as future plans and aspirations. The trafficked persons interviewed for this study came from all six countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS): Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. The study included men, women and children, trafficked for various forms of forced labour, sexual exploitation, begging and/or forced…
This country care review includes the Concluding Observations for the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilites. The Committees' recommendations on the issue of Family Environment and Alternative Care as well as other care relevant issues are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
The People’s Republic of China issued its third and fourth combined report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in June 2012, which is due to be examined by the Committee on the Rights of the Child at its 64th Session, taking place from 16 September to 4 October 2013 in Geneva.
Among information provided by the Government of China relating to children’s care, including sections addressing Family Environment and Alternative Care, the following is noteworthy:
- In December 2007, the National Information System…
The Chinese government’s response to the increasing number of children orphaned in the HIV epidemic included setting up AIDS orphanages and supporting community-based group homes for double orphans (children who lost both parents to HIV). The impact of these strategies, compared to traditional kinship care, on children’s outcomes has not been studied in China. The purpose of this study was to compare perceived life improvement and life satisfaction among double orphans in 3 main care arrangements (group home, AIDS orphanage, kinship care) in 2 rural Chinese counties. Participants…
This is a report of issues and concerns raised by orphans and children affected by HIV/AIDS in an area of central China with a severe HIV/AIDS epidemic. This project was undertaken as a preliminary study for a longer programme of child-focussed work in the area to provide care, support and treatment within a framework of child protection and children.s participation.
The epidemic was caused through blood-selling by poorer adults and the bad practices used by entrepreneurs in returning some mixed blood of several people to sellers. Large numbers of adults have died, many are dying and many…
Programmes for the rapidly increasing numbers of children affected by HIV/AIDS, especially orphans, have highlighted psycho-social support as a primary requisite for provision in response to the effects of the epidemic. But defining and demonstrating what this means in practice has bewildered many staff who are setting out to design programmes and work with children. Sometimes the term has been taken to mean counselling, or conflated with counselling (1), or other personal, individual therapeutic interventions. In short, there appears to be a perception that an emphasis on psychology, or…
China’s rapid modernization over the past two decades has led to dramatic changes for Chinese children. Most children experience massive pressure to study and achieve high scores at school; at the same time increasing numbers of children are becoming vulnerable to emerging forms of exploitation, abuse and harm.
This report highlights participatory research with HIV/AIDS-affected children in Central China, illustrating a full spectrum of issues around changing notions of childhood and vulnerability. In particular this research demonstrates the significant – and growing – inequalities…