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This report outlines a number of key risk factors, including discrimination, poverty, disability and gender, with girls affected disproportionately by certain forms of violence, boys affected more than we once thought, and both unlikely to report the violence they experience. The report builds on the ground-breaking 2006 United Nations Study on Violence against Children, (the United Nations Study) and on 10 years of the implementation of its recommendations promoted by the mandate of the Special Representative. It also draws on expert contributions from a range of organizations, to…
Academics, scholars, and practitioners have a tendency to use one term – typically “abuse” or “violence” – as the umbrella term for a full range of types of child maltreatment including neglect; exploitation; and physical, sexual, and psychological violence and abuse. This creates challenges for the identification of cases, the measurement of incidence rates, and the determination of appropriate protective mechanisms.
This report examines the main elements of child abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence (nature of the act; perpetrator relationship to the child…
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Over the past decades, numerous reports have emerged suggesting that children from poor countries are being obtained illegally and transported transnationally in order to meet the high Western demand for adoptable healthy babies. This chapter identifies the structural components of the transnational illegal adoption market by applying the basic logic of the routine activity theory that has been developed by Cohen and Felson. It explains that in the context of extreme inequality (“criminogenic asymmetries”) between the sending and the receiving countries, supply, demand, as well as…
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In the present report, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 37/20, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights provides an overview of the legal framework and practical measures to empower children with disabilities. She focuses on empowerment through participation and inclusive education, and analyses how to foster the personal and public decision-making of children with disabilities, their inclusion in the community and their protection from abuse, exploitation and violence. The High Commissioner concludes the report with a number of recommendations to…
This guide from the Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) offers strategies for protecting children in creating and sharing digital media of children. "When it comes to children, wise use of images is also an act of child protection – honoring each child’s dignity and guarding them from voyeurism and exploitation," says the guide. The guide outlines nin key principles for practice, 7 questions for consideration, and a list of resources for learning more.
In this webinar presented by RISE Learning Network, Omattie Madray and Zenainda Rosales presented an extensive study recently carried out which analyzed over 100 documents and conducted over 20 interviews to gain insights on practices of organizations supporting and caring for boys affected by sexual violence in their recovery process. They looked into how social norms around gender influence care for boys affected and discussed what is needed to ensure quality alternative care.
Out of the shadows: Shining light on the response to child sexual abuse and exploitation is an Economist Intelligence Unit research programme supported by the World Childhood Foundation and the Oak Foundation with additional support from the Carlson Family Foundation.
It is based largely on a country-level benchmarking index that evaluates how stakeholders are responding to the scourge of sexual violence against children in 40 selected countries. They include: Albania, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Egypt, El Salvador, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy,…
This book explores how humanitarian interventions for children in difficult circumstances engage in affective commodification of disadvantaged childhoods. The chapters consider how transnational charitable industries are created and mobilized around childhood need—highlighting children in situations of war and poverty, and with indeterminate access to health and education—to redirect global resource flows and sentiments in order to address concerns of child suffering. The authors discuss examples from around the world to show how, as much as these processes can help achieve the goals of aid…
In this video, Dr. Kristen Cheney discusses how her work led her to study the growth of the Orphan Industrial Complex and its adverse effects on children, families, communities, and child protection systems. She explains how you can avoid being exploited by the OIC for orphan tourism and suggests ways to better protect and serve children abroad.
This article by Ellen Livingood in Volume 13, Issue 9 of Postings describes the ways in which Christian churches and faith communities are moving away from orphanage volunteering to supporting other forms of care for children. "Often orphanage ministry is one of a church’s most-popular global missions efforts because there is such an emotional attachment to needy children," says Livingood. "Yet disturbing facts about the orphanage model, especially the impact of Western short-term ministries in Majority World orphanages, are causing many churches to rethink their…