February/March Issue
Items of Interest
- Human Rights Council - SRSG emphasizes the human rights imperative to end violence against children and considers violence as a major public health concern affecting children of all ages. In the annual full day meeting on the rights of the child, the Human Rights Council focused on the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health. The meeting included discussions on the challenges in achieving the full realization of the universal right to health and focused on strengthening the implementation of the right of the child to health and on accountability mechanisms that need to be in place to ensure that Member States comply with their human rights obligations. Read more...
- Protecting Children from Harmful Practices - SRSG stresses urgent need to safeguard the supremacy of human rights in case of conflict between national, customary and religious laws. On March 7th 2013, as a contribution to the Human Rights Council’s annual discussion on the child’s right to health, the Special Representative and Plan International organized a side-event "Protecting Children from Harmful Practices" in Geneva. Read more...
- New International Project: “Children’s Worlds. An International Report on Child Well-Being” Three Childwatch International member institutions will take part in a new international project funded by Jacobs Foundation, Zurich. CINDE Colombia, NOVA Norway and The University of Girona, Spain, will join other prominent research institutions world wide in an interdisciplinary research project for child-wellbeing. Read more...
New Research Guides and Tools:
- Moving Forward - Implementing children's rights in the framework of alternative care The Moving Forward website is now live! This website includes details on how to access the handbook as well as contact details for further information. Read more...
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TOGETHER WITH CHILDREN - FOR CHILDREN - A guide for non-governmental organizations accompanying children in CRC reporting This publication aims to provide a practical guide for NGOs to facilitate children’s engagement in all aspects of the CRC reporting process. It is based on the experiences of NGOs and children, and explores issues NGOs will need to take into consideration when supporting and promoting children’s involvement. Read more...
Calls for Abstracts/Papers/Proposals:
- The Wise Awards 2013: Submission period now open until March 31, 2013. The 2013 WISE Awards will celebrate six innovative educational projects for their positive contribution within a community or society. WISE seeks to share best practices world over and inspire others to spark change in education. The WISE Awards thus highlight today’s most innovative solutions and approaches that are addressing educational challenges confronting the world at large. Read more...
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Call for applications for the European Master in Childhood Studies and Children's Rights The EMCR (European Master in Childhood Studies and Children’s Rights) at Freie Universität Berlin is currently taking on new applicants for the winter semester starting October 2013. This English based degree is structured into 3 semesters. Application deadline is 30th of April 2013. Read more...
Events
- Register Now for the Early Childhood Summit 2013: Innovation and Opportunity Registration is now open for the 2013 Early Childhood Summit in Boston, co-sponsored by the Boston Children's Museum, the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, and Strategies for Children. This daylong summit on Friday, April 5, 2013, will bring together neuroscientists, pediatricians, educators, business and museum professionals, and policymakers to develop a broad partnership dedicated to improving outcomes for children. Read more...
- Global Health & Innovation Conference 2013 Presented by Unite For Sight, 10th Annual Conference Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Saturday, April 13 - Sunday, April 14, 2013. The Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world's largest global health conference and social entrepreneurship conference. This must-attend, thought-leading conference annually convenes more than 2,200 leaders, changemakers, students, and professionals from all fields of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship. Read more...
- Research with Vulnerable Children: Two day research methods training workshop Centre for Research on the Child and Family is putting together a two day research methods training workshop: Research with Vulnerable Children. 23rd –24th April 2013 Read more...
- Joint Council on International Children's Services 37th Annual Child Welfare Symposium The Joint Council on International Children's Services is announcing its 37th Annual Child Welfare Symposium, which will be held in New York City, May 20-22, 2013 at the Conference Center, 130 East 59th Street, New York, New York. Read more...
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Time and place: Sep 9, 2013 - Sep 10, 2013, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora, ArgentinaUNI-COM, Faculty of Social Sciences of Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora, Argentina, invites you to participate in the II UNI-COM LATINAMERICAN CONFERENCE: "Quality of Life in Latin America". Submission deadline for abstracts : 9th APRIL, 2013. Read more...
Publications
Books:
- Practical social pedagogy: Theories, values and tools for working with children and young people Social pedagogical work is a field of practice that is indebted to and illuminated by aspects of knowledge from sociology and psychology, but many practitioners feel that social pedagogical theories are too abstract and distant from the challenges faced in practice. In Practical Social Pedagogy Jan Storo shows the reader for the first time how the theories and practices of social pedagogy interlock. Read more...
- Digital life story work This innovative guide brings the benefits of life story work – traditionally undertaken with younger children – to young people and adolescents. Digital life story work charts new territory through the use of computers, free software, smartphones and camcorders in a range of contemporary and exciting ways. Read more...
- Children's Chances: How Countries can move from Surviving to Thriving. Children’s Chances urges a transformational shift from focusing solely on survival to targeting children’s full and healthy development. Drawing on never-before-available comparative data on laws and public policies in 190 countries, Jody Heymann and Kristen McNeill tell the story of what works and what countries around the world are doing to ensure equal opportunities for all children. Read more...
Research Reports
- Children and Youth in Crisis: Protecting and Promoting Human Development in Times of Economic Shocks The results of a research collaboration entitled, “Children and Youth in Crisis”, between the Jacobs Foundation and the World Bank, provides a synthesis of experience and evidence on the impact of crises on children and youth, leading directly to recommendations for policy change. Read more...
- New Crop Poverty Brief 14: Current trends in Poverty Reduction in Latin America Latin America experienced six years of sustained economic growth from 2003 to 2008, before the international crisis. But the reduction in poverty and inequality is not a simple consequence of economic growth as this brief shows. Read more...
- Domestic Workers Across the World: Global and regional statistics and the extent of legal protection. This publication sheds light on the magnitude of domestic work, a sector often “invisible” behind the doors of private households and unprotected by national legislation. This volume presents national statistics and new global and regional estimates on the number of domestic workers, including child domestic workers. Read more...
- Prevention and Early Intervention in Children and Young People's Services: Organisational Learning: This report synthesises the learning from 16 organisations about choosing, developing, implementing, operationalising and evaluating their evidence-informed services and programmes. The aim is to make this learning useable for those responsible for deciding which services will improve outcomes for children and families, the organisations who deliver them and those who evaluate their impact. Read more...
- EU Kids Online - New Report! In their own words: What bothers children online? New report launched on Safer Internet Day 2013 (Tuesday 5 February) by the EU Kids Online project. Nearly 10,000 children between 9-16 years old from 25 European countries were surveyed for the report, and were asked ‘What things on the internet would bother people about your age?’. The report presents, for the first time, a detailed analysis of how children view the risks associated to the online world ‘in their own words’. Read more...
- Children and young people across Europe take action to end violence in custody. A report published on January 28 2013 by the Children’s Rights Alliance for England (CRAE) presents the campaigning activities undertaken by forty children and young people in Austria, Cyprus, England, the Netherlands and Romania to try and create violence-free youth custodial settings in their countries.The campaigning activities were carried out as part of CRAE’s Ending Violence against Children in Custody project, funded by the European Commission’s Daphne III programme.The youth-led campaigns in each country were based on the recommendations developed by young researchers in the first phase of the project. Read more...
Journals:
- Child & Family Social Work: Special Issue: Rediscovering Family and Kinship: new directions for social work theory, policy and practice Current Issue: February 2013 edited by Susan White. Volume 18, Issue 1 Special Issue: Rediscovering Family and Kinship FREE to download until December 31st 2013. Read more...
Policy Briefs:
- Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. In 2010 the members of the global Child Protection Working Group agreed on the need for child protection standards in humanitarian settings. The Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action were developed between January 2011 and September 2012. The process of drafting the Minimum Standards involved over 400 individuals from 30 agencies in over 40 countries, including child protection practitioners, humanitarian actors from other sectors, academics and policy makers. Read more...
Working Papers:
- New Research Working Paper: Rural households in a changing climate. This World Bank policy research working paper investigates household-level strategies for adapting to climate change in rural settings, looking particularly at the adaptive capacity of poor rural households – a subject the authors claim has received little attention due to its broad and complex nature. Read more...
Online Debates and Events:
- The Case for Universal Pre-Kindergarten Education: An Interview with Professor Martin Woodhead, University of Oxford, and Professor Alberto Minujin, The New School. The exciting flurry of debate about Universal Pre-K since President Obama's State of the Union address on February 12, 2013 prompted a real-time interview on the important topic from Equity for Children Director Alberto Minujin at The New School, and Martin Woodhead from Young Lives at the University of Oxford. Read more...
- Episode 9: Equity For Children Talks with Irene Rizzini. This EFC Talks interviews Irene Rizzini, Director of the International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood (CIESPI) at the Catholic University in Rio (PUC-Rio) and major researcher and contributor to the film, 'When Home is the Street.' Read more...
Vacancies
- Professorship of Childhood Research/ Director of the Children’s Research Centre: Post Title: Professorship of Childhood Research/ Director of the Children’s Research Centre (*Appointment will be made at appropriate grade dependent on qualifications and experience)- Permanent. Department/Faculty: The post holder will be expected to be based in either the School of Psychology or the School of Social Work and Social Policy. The closing date is 12 Noon on Wednesday, 17th April 2013. Read more...
Links to the latest newsletters on child research:
The African Child E-Newsletter, Issue 13
International Bureau for Children's Rights: Newsletter on Children’s Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
International Bureau for Children's Rights: The Forum on Children in Armed Conflict Newsletter
International Bureau for Children's Rights: The Middle East and North Africa Newsletter
Better Care Network Newsletter - February 2013
What's new in research? OVCsupport.net - Newsletter - February 2013
International Social Service ISS - Monthly Review