Reflections from the world’s premier conference on ending violence against women and violence against children from the Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum 2019 Nearly 800 researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and activists descended on Cape Town, South Africa for the world’s key conference on ending violence… Read more →←
Author: Kathleen Sullivan
Leading Minds Call on Global Action to Support and Protect Mental Well-Being for Youth The following blog is the transcript of the closing remarks for the Leading Minds 2019 Conference for Children and Young People on Mental Health by Chantelle Booysen, Global Mental Health Advocate and Social Impact Entrepreneur. In the last… Read more →←
Amoun Aden Ismail is a youth and women’s empowerment activist and entrepreneur based in the Horn of Africa. Having recently worked as a Research Assistant for UNICEF’s study on Children on the Move in the Horn of Africa, Amoun shares with us her biggest learning from the experience. Despite having worked with youth in Somaliland for… Read more →←
Maryama* is just 17 years old, but already she has attempted to migrate from Hargeisa in the Horn of Africa to Europe twice. While most migrants face harrowing journeys, her story can help us understand some of the additional challenges facing young women and girls on the move in the Horn of Africa. She was interviewed as part of a… Read more →←
How do we know if a programme made a difference? The answer to this question is not as straightforward as it seems, because we never know what would have happened without the programme. This concept is referred to as the ‘missing counterfactual’ (or simply ‘the counterfactual’ since, by definition, a counterfactual is… Read more →←
Getting the ‘development’ right in sport for development (S4D) means that on the pitch, disabilities are dissolved into strengths. It means that traditional ‘no girls allowed’ attitudes are torn away. It means that children’s voices are valued in both the planning and the playing, and real efforts are made to protect children… Read more →←
The lights dimmed and the theatre hushed. Spotlights swirled in the dark from one person popping up out of the darkness to the next as a late-night emergency meeting of refugees unfolded in front of us. I was at the Playhouse Theatre in London and then I was transported somewhere else. Set in a reimagined version of the ‘Afghan… Read more →←
In the past four years that I have been working on several national child poverty studies, either conducting the analysis directly or providing assistance and feedback, a few key findings have emerged as consistent poverty-related or poverty-driven issues that need to be addressed. These five areas should be considered priorities in… Read more →←
*Nota: Esta es una traducción de la publicación original del blog en inglés: What We Know and What We Don’t Know about Youth Gangs in Latin America La violencia asociada con las pandillas en América Latina se ha convertido en una de las preocupaciones principales en algunos países de la región, sobre todo en los países del… Read more →←
*This blog post has been translated into Spanish: Lo que sabemos y lo que no sabemos sobre las pandillas juveniles en América Latina Gang violence in Latin America has become one of the central security concerns in some countries of the region, including the countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America and more recently,… Read more →←
