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Searching with a thematic focus on Children and young people in Brazil

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  Risk factors, pathways and outcomes for youth released from juvenile detention centres in Sao Paulo, Brazil

  Child Rights Information Network, 2006

  What factors make young people in Brazil more or less likely to be put in prison, and what happens to them after incarceration? This report presents findings from a project that used surveys and interviews to investigate the experiences of over 300 young people aged 12 to 17 who had been incarcerated in juvenile detention centres in São Paulo.
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  Child labour in the Latin America and Caribbean Region: a gender based analysis

  Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) Programme, 2006

  This study examines the child labour phenomenon in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region from a gender perspective.
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  Violence against young children: a painful issue

  Bernard van Leer Foundation, 2006

  This edition of Early Childhood Matters examines initiatives to discourage parents, teachers and others from using violence against children and encourage more positive strategies. The edition begins with an interview with Jaap Doek, the Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. The following articles discuss initiatives from various developing countries:
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  Children in custody in Brazil

  The Lancet, 2006

  15 years after Brazil adopted one of Latin America's most progressive juvenile justice laws, substantially reflecting the guarantees contained in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the country's juvenile detention centres continue to be grossly deficient.This short article examines the state of juvenile justice in Brazil.
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  Integration of care and education: the challenge in Brazil

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2006

  The Brazilian government introduced a policy to integrate the administrative responsibility for day care centres for 0-3 year-olds and preschools for 4-6 year-olds into the education sector in 1996. But even after nine years, the two services are still far from being integrated.This Policy Briefing paper from UNESCO provides a summary of an interview with Dr.
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  In the dark: hidden abuses against detained youths in Rio de Janeiro

  Human Rights Watch, 2005

  This report assesses the treatment of detained youth in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, according to international law, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international human rights instruments.The report finds that the children experience beatings and other physical abuse.
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  Side by side: building and sustaining a culture of youth participation at Reprolatina: a case study from Southeastern Brazil

  International Women's Health Coalition, 2005

  This report presents a case study of effective youth participation at Reprolatina, a nongovernmental sexual and reproductive health and rights organisation based in Southeastern Brazil.
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  Is child labour harmful?: the impact of working as a child on adult earnings

  Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 2004

  Many studies that focus on child labour issues emphasise the negative consequences of child labour by showing the trade-off with human capital accumulation. However, there are reasons to expect positive pecuniary benefits to young labour such as vocational training, learning by doing, general workplace experience as well as the potential for making contacts.
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  Programa para o futuro: enabling disadvantaged youth to build new futures: a new model for employability training

  Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2005

  The paper describes the process and achievements of an employment skills programme in Brazil.
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  The responses of child labour, school enrollment, and grade repetition to the loss of parental earnings in Brazil, 1982-1999

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper examines how the loss of earnings by the head of a household in Brazil affects how his children spend their time in school and work. It opens with a simple theoretical explanation of how income shocks may lead to socially inefficient school drop-out and labour market entry by children in credit-constrained households.

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