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  Intersecting risks: HIV/AIDS and child labour

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This paper analyses the mutually reinforcing factors that, as a result of HIV infection among adults, contribute to child labour and may place child workers at risk of HIV infection themselves.
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  Harnessing globalisation for children

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2002

  This report assesses the impact of the latest wave of globalisation on children.
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  HIV and conflict: a double emergency

  Save the Children Fund, 2002

  This report reflects the International Save the Children Alliance’s experience of HIV/AIDS and its effects on young people in conflict situations around the world.In war, HIV/AIDS spreads rapidly as a result of sexual bartering, sexual violence, low awareness about HIV, and the breakdown of vital services in health and education. In conflict situations, young people are most at risk.
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  Meaningful youth participation in international conferences: a case study of the international conference on war-affected children

  Canadian International Development Agency, 2000

  This paper is intended to contribute to the growing understanding of youth participation by sharing both the practical and philosophical approaches taken for youth participation at the Winnipeg Conference.The background planning for Winnipeg is outlined, along with a working definition of youth participation, an analysis of why it is important, and reflections on how youth participation actuall
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  Globalisation and children’s rights: what role for the private sector?

  Save the Children Fund, 2002

  This report looks at two aspects of economic globalisation and how they impact on children's rights: foreign private sector investment and the privatisation of basic services.The two major concerns of the authors are that:the investment liberalisation agreements of the WTO are targeting the removal of government entry criteria for foreign investment that ensure such investment benefits
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  Inclusion for the excluded: a pipe dream or practical necessity?

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2002

  This report describes an early intervention programme piloted in a large, well-established refugee camp on the Thai/Burma border. The questions addressed are:what are the needs of disabled children and their teachers in the refugee camps?what is being done already to address these needs?what more can be done; can a model be developed for future practice?
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  Learning for a future: refugee education in developing countries

  United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees, 2002

  Looks at education as a vehicle for rebuilding refugee children’s lives, through social interaction and gaining knowledge and skills for their future lives.It reviews the state of the art, identifys key issues and best practices, and aims to assist in updating UNHCR guidelines for assistance to refugee education in developing countries.
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  School subsidies for the poor: evaluating the Mexican Progresa poverty program

  Yale University Library, 2001

  This paper argues that subsidising schooling among the rural poor could potentially reduce entrenched and intergenerational transmission of poverty if considered as a economically and geographically targeted policy.Based on an evaluation of the Progresa Program, which targets the geographically and economically (at the household level) poor in relatively immobile, rural villages of Central and
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  The impact of adult mortality on primary school enrollment in northwestern Tanzania

  Africa Region Human Development Department, World Bank, 2002

  The goal of this study is to measure the impact of adult deaths and orphan status on household decisions to enroll children in primary school.
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  Expanding community-based support for orphans and vulnerable children

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2002

  A report documenting the findings of a workshop to understand the proliferation of orphan and vulnerable children (OVC) initiatives throughout East and Southern Africa and the ways in which NGOs and their partners can expand the impact and coverage of OVC programmes.

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