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This is a corporal punishment country report for Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, the Law on Protection of Child Rights 2019 prohibits corporal punishment in alternative care settings and in penal institutions.
However, corporal punishment is still lawful in the home, day care and as a sentence for crime. In the home, the new Law protects children from "any forms of physical and mental excruciation” but does not extend to prohibiting corporal punishment.
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This is a corporal punishment country report for Guinea-Bissau. While prohibition of corporal punishment is still to be achieved in the home and day care, the Child Protection Code 2021 of Guinea-Bissau prohibits corporal punishment in alternative care settings, schools and in penal institutions.
The Code also prohibits physical and psychological violence, including humiliation and verbal aggression. However, it does not explicitly prohibit corporal punishment of children, however light, in the home.
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This publication evaluates the progress of implementing the 2010 Counter Trafficking in Persons Act in Kenya from its inception until now (2010-2020). Publishing ten years after the Act became operational and thirteen years after it was gazetted, different authors analyse achievements and challenges in operationalising the counter trafficking in persons law.
A collection of research articles, interviews, a speech and art, this publication captures the current counter trafficking in persons environment. It is organised into four key areas of action: Prevention, Protection,…
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Background and objective
Youth with intellectual disabilities involved in child welfare systems are at greater risk of sexual victimization than youth who have not been investigated for child maltreatment.…
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Background
The Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (OIS) is the only source of province-wide statistics on families investigated by child welfare.
Objective
This paper presents key findings from the 2018 cycle of the OIS (OIS-2018) and highlights select policy and practice implications of these findings.
Participants and Settings
The OIS-2018 captured information directly from investigating child protection workers about children and families who were the subject of a child protection investigation sampled for inclusion in the study.…
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Background
Children with disabilities in high-income countries are more likely than their peers to be exposed to violence. To date, only two studies have reported nationally robust data on the association between child disabilities and exposure to violent parental discipline.
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To estimate prevalence rates and adjusted rate ratios of exposure to violent parental discipline among children with and without disabilities in middle- and low-income countries.
Participants and Setting
Nationally representative samples involving a total of 206,147 children aged 2−14…
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This article describes the first United States-based national study to compare the rates of substantiation of maltreatment among cases reported to child protective services involving caregivers with and without disabilities. Using data from the 2014 National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System dataset, parents with emotional disturbances, developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, medical conditions and multiple disabilities were all found to have higher odds of substantiation of child maltreatment after being reported to child protection in…
This report presents findings from the Kenya 2019 Violence Against Children Survey (VACS). This survey is the second nationally representative survey conducted in Kenya on violence against children and youth, following the first VACS in 2010. The survey measures the prevalence, nature, and consequences of physical, emotional, and sexual violence against children and youth. The survey enhances the country’s capacity to design, implement, and evaluate violence prevention programmes and build successful child protection systems. The VACS results include several notable findings that provide…
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This study aimed to identify the factors that affect the incidence rate of neglected children in Indonesia by considering the household effect. Neglect is a form of child abuse by not fulfilling or ignoring their basic needs. Neglected children are a complex social problem. This is a multidimensional problem, since the cause cannot be seen only based on individual characteristics, but it must also consider the household variation effect. The data was collected from a secondary source, namely the Socio-Culture and Education Module of the 2012 National Socio-Economic Survey (NSES-…
El siguiente resumen resalta los hallazgos principales de la Encuesta de Violencia contra Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes (EVCNNA), El Salvador 2017. El texto describe más detalles de los resultados. En general, la EVCNNA El Salvador incluye un conjunto de datos exhaustivos que representan las experiencias, fortalezas y riesgos de las personas jóvenes en El Salvador. Estos hallazgos describen una situación compleja de las experiencias de gente joven pero también contribuyen a identificar oportunidades para abordar factores que pueden prevenir estas experiencias. Los resultados de la EVCNNA…