Violence

Childwatch Projects

• Violence Against Children

Other research resources

• UN Study on Violence Against Children (2006)
• World Report on Violence Against Children. The World Report on Violence against Children provides a more detailed account of the Study presented to the UN General Assembly. The book was launched at the United Nations in Geneva on the occasion of Universal Children’s Day and the 15th anniversary of the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
• Eldis - resouce guide on Violence Against Children
   

Research Institutions and Networks

• The CHILDREN AND VIOLENCE EVALUATION CHALLENGE FUND aims at reducing violence against children by funding EVALUATIONS of violence prevention and child protection interventions in low- and middle-income countries.
• Child Abuse Prevention Network
• Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict
• Fundación Paniamor Costa Rica
• CINDE, The International Center for Education and Human Development Colombia
• Caribbean Child Development Centre Consortium for Social Development and Research University of the West Indies Jamaica
• Unicef - Innocenti Research Centre Italy
• Children's Research Centre, Trinity College Ireland
• The Catalan Interdisciplinary Research Network on Children's Rights and Children's Quality of Life (X.C.I.I.I.) Spain
• Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay India
• Child and Youth Research and Training Programme, University of Western Cape South Africa
• The Children's Institute, University of Cape Town South Africa
• Interamerican Children's Institute - Instituto Interamericano del Niño  Uruguay

IGO and NGO resources

• The UN Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence against Children
• WHO: Child maltreatment prevention course. This short course describes the public health approach to child maltreatment. It provides an overview of the scale of the problem, its consequences and costs, risk and protective factors for child maltreatment, and child maltreatment prevention strategies. 
• Council of Europe: Building A Europe For And With Children
• Global Initiative to End all Corporal Punishment of Children
• International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) News on Children

International conferences and Events

• International Conference on Violence against the Girl Child, den Haag, 9 - 10 March 2009

International Standards

• Recommendation 1666 (2004) Europe-wide ban on corporal punishment of children
• Recommendation 1778 (2007) Child victims: stamping out all forms of violence, exploitation and abuse
• Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence

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