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As in all countries throughout the world, children living in Bangladesh experience situations of violence in their homes and within the communities where they live. Despite governments, citizens and children taking action to end this violence, the percentages of Bangladesh’s young women who marry before the age of 18 and children reporting the use of violent discipline in their homes suggest that current efforts to end violence against children are not enough. World Vision believes that a world without violence against children is possible. It takes action from all members and institutions in…
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Cox’s Bazar Education Sector and Child Protection Sub-Sector partners conducted the Joint Rapid Education and Child Protection Need Assessment (JRNA) between the 4th to 6th December 2017. The main objective of the JRNA was to identify education and child protection needs, priorities and capacities of Rohingya boys and girls in the camps, settlements and host community in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh to inform and provide the evidence-base for the 2018 Joint Response Plan (JRP). The assessment was based on the agreed common approach by the Global Protection Cluster and Global…
This cross-sectional descriptive study found that poverty is the main reason children stay and work on the street. One hundred-twenty five street children were interviewed in Dhaka, Bangladesh and 41% reported poverty as the main reason for staying and working on the street. Over 80% reported they were frequently abused and 87.2% report they suffer from health problems. The study noted 21.3% of the children who responded did not stay with their parents while their parents did live in the city, and the remaining 78.7% lived with their parents. Most of the girls felt insecure…
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The Committee’s recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care 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.