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The INSPIRING Ways to End Violence Against Children podcast has released six new episodes, all of which explore organisations’ efforts to protect children – and adapt to challenges – during COVID-19.
In the first release of the INSPIRING Ways to End Violence Against Children podcast, the End Violence Partnership took listeners from Honduras to South Africa to meet experts in the field of violence prevention, all of whom shared knowledge of what works in tackling the…
More children than ever called the CWIN child helpline 10-9-8 when lockdown measures begin in Nepal. The helpline team at the country’s oldest child rights organisation was on the streets supporting children daily, even as movement restrictions barred all but essential workers from operating. Sumnima Tuladhar, a founding member and executive director of CWIN, tells Hani Mansourian from the Alliance how the calls to the helpline changed when the COVID-19 pandemic reached Nepal. They discuss the processes drawn up to allow the helpline team to continue supporting children in dangerous…
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed many families into difficulties. And it has increased the risk of children being lured or forced into different types of work that are hazardous for their health, wellbeing and development.
In this episode of the Protected! Podcast, Hani Mansourian from the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action talks to Selim Benaissa, Chief Technical Officer from the ILO on the…
Governments shut borders quickly in eastern Africa as the threat of an outbreak of COVID-19 loomed. That left child protection actors with reduced access to the refugee children they support and the children themselves are facing more risks. In this episode of the Protected! Podcast, Elsa Laurin, the Senior Child Protection Officer for the East and Horn of Africa from UNHCR, tells Hani Mansourian how they and…
Have you ever wondered what happens when child protection actors have zero face-to-face access to the children and families they support?
Plan International Lebanon faced that exact problem in March 2020, when the government imposed a curfew and state of emergency across the country. In this episode of the Protected! Podcast, Elissa Alhassrouny, a child protection specialist with Plan International Lebanon,…
“Protected!” is the official podcast of the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. Hani Mansourian, the Alliance's Co-coordinator, hosts this frank dialogue on all aspects of child protection and COVID-19 with practitioners, innovators and policy makers in the sector.
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