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Gender Gap Closing but Challenges Persist While the global Gender Gap in school enrolment is narrowing, adolescent girls continue to face serious obstacles in their progress along the education continuum. According to recent data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), drop-out rates remain...

More than two years into the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, gender equality is fundamental to delivering on the promises of sustainability, peace and human progress. How far have we come in turning the 2030 Agenda into results for women and girls on the ground, and...

Although a short video, Professor Sonia Bhalotra addresses whether a decline in child morality influences women's choices of labour market participation, marriage, and fertility. ...

As the designated custodian agency for monitoring progress towards reaching this target, UNICEF is responsible for generating periodic global estimates of child marriage. These estimates are produced primarily from nationally representative household surveys, and for a minority of countries, from...

This report shows that girls who are married off earlier are at greater risk for depression and other mental health problems. ABSTRACT: Lower awareness of health knowledge, physical growth and development, women bearing children at early ages face higher risk of maternal health problems, disability...

A capacity-building tool for child protection in and after emergencies. The ARC resource pack provides an essential collection of information and training material to strengthen people’s capacity: to tackle the root causes of children’s vulnerabilities to build effective child protection systems for...

Rehabilitation of the Victims of Trafficking: A Multidisciplinary Approach Guidance on the formation of multidisciplinary teams for the provision of services to child victims of abuse and trafficking. It is based on the principle that effective rehabilitation requires systematic and coordinated...

Introduction to Child Protection: Teacher's Handbook A handbook that identifies and addresses issues of child protection in education in Southern Sudan, and mobilizes communities into action to make schools protective and nurturing learning environments. Covers safeguarding children from abuse...