Tagged: violence against children

The Time Is Now! Preventing Violence Against Women and Children Requires Quality Evidence

Data and Research Events Violence Against Children

By Alessandra Guedes, Lusajo Kajula, Amber Peterman

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 →←

School bullying harms everyone, not just the victims

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  It is no surprise that children who are bullied do worse in academic tests. However, after  re-analyzing children’s reading test data for 30 school systems in some of the world’s richest countries, we found that an environment of bullying drags everyone’s achievement down, not just that of the victims. We published our… Read more →←

Lo que sabemos y lo que no sabemos sobre las pandillas juveniles en América Latina

Country stories Evidence

By Cirenia Chávez

*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 →←

What We Know and What We Don’t Know about Youth Gangs in Latin America

Data and Research Evidence

By Cirenia Chávez

*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 →←

A ‘toxic cocktail’: How life on the margins can exacerbate children’s vulnerability to violence

Evidence to Policy

By Alina Potts and Lanie Stockman

For too many children, the places where they should feel safe—at home, at school, in their communities—are the first and most frequent sites of violence. The latest data presented in UNICEF’s A Familiar Face shows, for example, that nearly 300 million children between the ages of 2 and 4 experience violent discipline by their… Read more →←

Who perpetrates violence against children? Five findings from a global review

Evidence

By Amber Peterman, Karen Devries, Claudia Cappa

Today, global leaders gather in Stockholm, Sweden for the first ever Agenda 2030 Solutions Summit to end violence against children. The summit brings together governments, UN, civil society, academics and children themselves to share solutions to “prevent and respond to violence against boys and girls.” Underlying this meeting is a… Read more →←

When over 500 minds converge to prevent gender-based violence

Events Evidence to Policy

By Amber Peterman and Alina Potts

Late last month, over 500 researchers, policymakers, donors and activists descended on the beautiful city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the 5th bi-annual Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum, the largest global gathering focusing on gender-based violence (GBV) in low- and middle-income countries. The forum has become the venue to… Read more →←

Can researchers and journalists find a common language?

Methods & tools Research Communication

By Rayyan Sabet-Parry

Main stream media outlets are facing threats from all sides. Often criticised as sensationalist, news media preoccupation with scandal, corruption and violence is increasingly being called into question. The latest challenge – fake news – has led many to question the reliability of the entire news media profession. Developing deeper… Read more →←

Bringing data on violence out of the shadows in Peru: a 25 year journey

Country stories Evidence

By Mary Catherine Maternowska

In 1990, during my first visit to Lima, Peru, the streets were crammed with vendors, pedestrians, vehicles of every description and young men holding calculators. Alberto Fujimori, a college professor, had just been elected president, and was busy enacting wide-ranging neo-liberal reforms, called Fujishock. Overnight, the price of many… Read more →←

Migrant and refugee children face higher rates of bullying

Evidence Publication & data launches

By Simona C. S. Caravita

As highlighted in the recent UN Secretary General’s report, Protecting children from bullying, rates of bullying among children are high across the world. The social costs of bullying are also high: bullied children face a greater risk of poor health, internalized stress, and suicidal thoughts. Negative outcomes of bullying have been… Read more →←

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