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    Economics behind forced labour trafficking: comprehensive case studies of child domestic labour and commercial sexual exploitation

    Global March Against Child Labour, 2014
    Millions of children and young women are trafficked around the world for forced labour. Trafficking for forced labour as we define in our paper is not restricted to any particular form or industry - it takes place for commercial sexual exploitation, child labour or bonded labour.
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    Home Grown School Feeding (HGSF)

    The Government of Zanzibar have launched a new innovative Home Grown School Feeding (HGSF) programme on Wednesday May 28 in collaboration with the Partnership for Child Development (PCD) and Table for
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    Gender-based violence and child protection among Syrian refugees in Jordan, with a focus on early marriage

    UN Women, 2013
    This assessment was conducted from December 2013 to March 2013 to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of the risks that Syrian refugee families – especially women and girls – face in Jordan, and to provide a deeper understanding of Syrian urban refugees’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards gender-based violence (GBV) against adults and children, including early m
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    Running out of time: Survival of Syrian refugee children in Lebanon

    Harvard School of Public Health, 2014
    This report documents the findings of a rapid assessment of the needs of Syrian refugee children in Lebanon undertaken over 10 days in November 2013. A two-person team interviewed Syrian refugee families in Beirut, Tripoli, and the Bekaa, as well as a broad spectrum of informed staff at local and international NGOs and agencies.
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    Integrating severe accute malnutrition into the management of childhood diseases at community level in South Sudan

    Malaria Consortium, 2013
    South Sudan ranks 15th highest in the world in terms of mortality rates for children under five. Malnutrition is widespread throughout the country with 28 percent of children under five being underweight, 31 percent stunted and 23 percent wasted.
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    Platinum & passes: the impact of mining investments on education outcomes in South Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    Platinum mining is a major engine of South Africa’s economy, producing exports and generating employment for many South Africans. It is, however, highly dependent on skilled labour, engineers and technicians, who are drawn from the limited pool of graduates emerging from the weak South African schooling system. Public-private partnerships have been established to address this gap.
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    The employment situation in Latin America and the Caribbean: conditional transfer programmes and the labour market

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2014
    Labour markets in Latin America and the Caribbean lost momentum in 2013 compared with the sustained improvements seen over the past 10 years.  Weaker formal and wage employment creation did not provoke broad expansion of the informal sector, as has occurred in the past, thanks to the number of jobs created over the past 10 years, which have pushed up incomes and reduced poverty.
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    Profits and poverty: the economics of forced labour

    International Labour Organization, 2014
    Today, about 21 million men, women and children are in forced labour, trafficked, held in debt bondage or work in slave-like conditions. This report builds on earlier ILO studies on the extent, cost and profits from forced labour. It looks at both the supply and demand sides of forced labour, and presents solid evidence for a correlation between forced labour and poverty.
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    Child exploitation and the FIFA World Cup: a review of risks and protective interventions

    Brunel Centre for Sport, Health and Wellbeing, 2013
    The many benefits of major sporting events (MSEs) for child development related to learning, healthy lifelong physical activity, civic pride and multi-cultural sensitisation are well documented. These benefits should obviously be weighed against concerns about child exploitation and MSEs.
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    Youth vulnerabilities in life course transitions

    United Nations Development Programme, 2014
    Approximately 85 percent of all youth aged 15 to 24 live in the developing world, and in general young people experience a greater burden of risk in developing rather than in high-income countries.

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