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There is growing concern that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for child and maternal health will not be met by 2015 – reducing the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds – recharging the debate on what is required to achieve...

Members of the International Save the Children Alliance have a common commitment to the prevention of child abuse and protection of children. The Child Protection Policy sets out common values, principles and beliefs and describes the steps that...

In today’s world the resources are available to guarantee a decent life to each and every child, free from misery, hunger, abuse and exploitation. What we are lacking is the absolute determination of the world community and its leaders to...

Members of the International Save the Children Alliance work together as a federation by pooling resources, establishing common positions on issues and carrying out joint projects. They represent the world’s largest independent global...

This document reveals the institutional position of Save the Children on child work and aims to become a referent model for this type of key theme. The common goal is to ensure that boys and girls are protected against harmful work – harm to...

This case study, commissioned by the Save the Children Alliance initiative “Care and Protection of Separated Children in Emergencies” (CPSC), concerns the phenomenon of children who disappeared during the civil war in El Salvador, and is based on...

This report highligths: (i) the links between children’s presence in China’s commercial sex trade and the inequalities that exist between urban and rural dwellers, between provinces, between city residents and migrants, between ethnic...

In order to make this lecture easier to researchers and the common public, Save the Children edited a shorter version of the original document. Here the reader is able to get a brief but clear account of the projects and tools to make this world a...

The minimum age of recruitment into the military should be 18 years. At present, under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, it is 15 years. The change could be achieved through the adoption of an Optional Protocol to the Convention. Existing...