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Summary: Children’s protection from violence,
exploitation, and abuse is weak in much of the
world, despite near universal ratification of the
Convention on the Rights of the Child. Often,
improved legislation is not accompanied by
significant changes in state or private
practices and capacity.
The types of programmatic response supported have tended to be curative
rather than preventative in nature, addressing symptoms rather than the
underlying systems that have failed to protect children. This article
proposes a conceptual framework for programming, identifying elements
key to protecting children in any environment as well as the factors that
strengthen or undermine the protection available. Using this shared
platform for analysis, human rights and development actors can bring
greater coherence to activities that strengthen child protection.
Owner: Karin Landgren, UNICEF’s Chief of Child Protection pdf: www.crin.org/docs/resources/publications/child_protection.pdf