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  Uprooted: the growing crisis for refugee and migrant children

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2016

  Around the world, nearly 50 million children have migrated across borders or been forcibly displaced. This report presents comprehensive, global data about these children - where they are born, where they move and some of the dangers they face along the way.
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  Internally displaced children [thematic guide]

  Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2007

  This new thematic webpage on internally displaced children from IDMC provides an introduction to issues facing displaced children and young people and details their protection under international law.The page is regularly updated and provides access to a range of further reading on the subject including country specific reports, policy briefings and guidelines.
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  UNHCR guidelines on formal determination of the best interests of the child

  United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees, 2008

  The principle of the best interests of the child has been the subject of extensive consideration, in both academic and operational circles. However, applying this principle in practice remains a challenge and there is limited guidance available on how to operationalise the best interests principle.  
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  Caught in the middle: mounting violations against children in Nepal's armed conflict

  Watchlist/Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, 2005

  This report documents violations against children and adolescents in the context of the armed conflict in Nepal.
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  Barriers and bridges: access to education for internally displaced children

  Brookings Institution, 2005

  This paper looks at the barriers internally displaced children face in accessing education. It states that often education is treated as a secondary need, to be addressed only once conflicts have subsided.
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  Child protection in the context of displacement: Ntoroko county, Bundibugyo district

  Refugee Law Project, Uganda, 2004

  This paper examines child protection issues of refugee children living in Ntoroko County, Bundibugyo District in western Uganda, an area characterised by conflict, displacement and poverty.The paper specifically looks at the main issues affecting children in the county, assesses community responses to date and analyses gaps in policy and programming.
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  Promotion and protection of the rights of children: impact of armed conflict on children

  United Nations Children's Fund, 1996

  This United Nations (UN) official document presents the report of a UN investigation into the impact of armed conflict on children. The first section of the report explores ways of mitigating the effects of armed conflict on children.
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  Innocenti Social Monitor 2004: the MONEE Project CEE/CIS/Baltic states

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2004

  This paper reviews four areas of child poverty and well-being in CEE, CIS and Baltic States, exploring links with issues such as economic growth, labour markets, migration and drugs use. It argues that a rights based approach must be taken to ensure inclusion, participation and redistribution of the benefits of economic progress.
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  No safe place to call home: child and adolescent night commuters in northern Uganda

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2004

  An estimated 50,000 people known as night commuters, most of them children, adolescents and women, abandon their homes each night for town centres seeking safety from attack by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a fractional group in Uganda.This report examines the growing number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northern Uganda, making key recommendations to help alleviate the cur
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  Colombia's war on children

  Watchlist/Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, 2004

  This report describes the impacts on young people devastated by the culture of crime and violence in Colombia: including displacement; health; education; gender based violence; trafficking and exploitation; landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO).Guerrilla groups, paramilitaries, government armed forces and national police all perpetrate violence and abuses against civilians, including children

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