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A DREAM COME TRUE…

When the news came that we had been shortlisted, we were nervous to say the least but when we were finally chosen it was a moment of euphoria, excitement, elation…

August 10, 2017

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BEING HEARD…MORE THAN JUST BEING LISTENED TO

Children and youth are still in shackles if we still need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved – being heard and…

July 31, 2017

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Where are the geographers? The need for inter-disciplinary approaches to CSE

When we think about where child sexual exploitation (CSE) happens we might find ourselves thinking about specific towns and cities – particularly when there has been lots of media attention on these…

April 11, 2017

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Public and private bodies: the politics of child sexual abuse

The recent disclosures from footballers about their horrendous experiences of child sexual abuse raise the question: ‘How is it that this level of abuse has been hidden for so long?’…

February 22, 2017

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Research on child marriage in 2016: what did we learn?

2016 was a big year for research on child marriage. New data and analysis emerged, building our understanding of child marriage, its drivers and impact, as well as what it…

February 9, 2017

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Making Sense of Child Marriage in Lebanon

Child marriage has emerged as a negative coping strategy among Syrian families who have been forcibly displaced to Lebanon as a result of Syria’s ongoing conflict. Child marriage has profound…

November 28, 2016

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Shule Salama: Using research to develop and pilot test a school based child abuse primary prevention intervention in Kenya

The school has been identified as one of the settings where children are exposed to violence. In 2014/15, LVCT Health and SOWED Kenya carried out a formative study and cross sectional survey in four…

June 29, 2016

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Sikhula ndawonye – developing an early parenting intervention for women with infants <12 months of age

The links between exposure to violence and maltreatment in childhood and poor educational attainment as well as the child later in life being a perpetrator or victim of violence are…