At the end of 2004 Save the Children faced the largest natural disaster in its 85-year history. After the Indian Ocean tsunami struck, Save the Children’s staff responded immediately to the needs of children, helping many thousands of...
A publication that clearly responds to questions formulated by children and adolescents about the UN Study on Violence against Children. The booklet is based on the questions children and adolescents sent by e-mail between the months of January...
What Save the Children thinks about physical and humiliating punishment – Information for children and young people. Physical and humiliating punishment is violence against children that is done with the aim of controlling or educating...
This comparative study, written by Spanish psychologist Pepa Horno and supported by Save the Children Spain, indicates the attitudes towards, and prevalence and patterns of, physical and humiliating punishment, based on findings from a series of...
Exposure to natural disasters has a devastating impact on the psychological and social well-being of children, adolescents and adults. It is now widely accepted that early psychosocial interventions that help to mitigate the effect of trauma,...
What is the United Nations Study on Violence against Children? is a child friendly concept paper of the UN Study on Violence against children. The paper explains the United Nations (UN) Study on Violence against Children and is written mainly for...
A report put together by Save the Children’s Child Participation Working Group, showing Save the Children’s learnings from supporting children’s participation during the UN General Assembly’s Special Session on Children. It sets...
‘End all forms of corporal punishment of children – Children are entitled to full respect for their dignity; to grow up free from physical and emotional violence’ is a Save the Children booklet on how to research the physical and...
This Resource Handbook is the result of collaborative efforts by members of the International Save the Children Alliance in Southeast, East Asia and the Pacific to research the physical and emotional punishment of children, using verifiable...
This report was written to capture Save the Children’s experience with working children, and draw from it principles of good practice. Projects for working children have been in the front line of Save the Children initiatives to help...