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Child Rights: Assessing the impact and measuring progress
Children's rights have become a growing focus of Civil Society Organizations, governments,
corporations and individuals. Despite this critically important engagement and attention,
children's rights advocacy tends to be balkanized by specific issue areas and bedeviled by
conceptual challenges.
The diffusion of new measurement tools and indices - and their growing influence in
policy dialogue - present the child rights community with a challenge and an opportunity. The
challenge is to engage in a forthright critique of how effectively existing measurement tools
consider child rights. The opportunity is to use the methodological insights developed in
other fields to ensure that data and knowledge are used critically and correctly.
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Children Associated with Armed Forces or Armed Groups (Child Soldiers)
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Measuring the reintegration of former child soldiers
There are formidable challenges in implementing programs that aim to reintegrate children
formerly associated with armed forces and groups in post-conflict states. Moreover,
there are formidable challenges in measuring the effectiveness of such programs.
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Child Migration and Birth Registration
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Children without a State:
Undocumented and Unregistered Children
The impact of inadequate documentation and registration on children is an
under-researched but emerging issue in the area of human rights policy and
child protection. With the growth of irregular migration and the escalation
of concerns regarding global security and anti-terrorism, proof of identity
and of legal status and nationality are increasingly key aspects of human
security.
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