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News - UNFPA writes about a new campaign “Fight Like a Girl” developed by Gender Stream, a grassroots women's rights initiative from Dnipro, and UN Women in Ukraine, as part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. Fight Like a Girl is a new online space free from…
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Online library - Children seeking treatment and attending health institutions, to take care and recovery, but instead taking services they were subjected to sexual abuse by professionals in violation of their duty to protect their patients. …
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Online library - The Non-Violent Childhood - Action Plan on the Prevention of Violence against Children 2020-2025 brings together policies for the prevention of violence against children aged 0-17. The Plan focuses as well on early…
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Online library - ‘Act Now’, a child consultation study by World Vision, reveals that more than four in five (81 percent) of those interviewed across 50 countries have seen or faced violence in their homes, communities or online since the start of the COVID-19…
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News - According to international studies, nearly 40 percent of children experience some form of maltreatment defined as abuse and neglect of children, including all types of physical and emotional abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, negligence, or other forms of exploitation by the…
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News - During the pandemic, Childline services gives children and young people who are anxious about the coronavirus a safe environment in which to speak and be listened to, and to get support.
Childline delivers counselling sessions and has collected the children’s…
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News - As in many other countries, the number of reports about domestic violence is expected to rise in Hungary as well, because of coronavirus. Besides staying at home, stress caused by economical and…
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News - In order to slow down coronavirus, many people decide to stay at home, but as a result of the quarantine, the number of cases connected to domestic violence can arise, says NANE and PATENT Associations in Hungary. In China, there were three times more reports in…
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News - The Early Intervention Foundation has published a report on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), relevantly promoted by the Children&Young People Now platform. The authors look at what we know about the ACE classification (e.g. physical/sexual/domestic/family…
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News - In a new press release, the EU highlighted their role in international efforts to eliminate Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) via their support for a number of projects worldwide, and by including the elimination of FGM in their human rights and political…
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News - The reduction of violence against children, which is one of the most serious problems in the world according to the WHO, is a main priority in Austria's human rights policy. The country has very strict rules about maltreatment…
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News - The Ministry of Human Resources (EMMI) declared their committment to combating violence against women on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women EMMI. A new Hungarian Penal Code came into force in 2013 which protects women and…
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News - Neglect, abuse and being born into 'dysfunctional families' are the main reasons why more than 7,000 unborn children are placed in the category ‘children in need’. This number has almost tripled in the last eight years.
Domestic violence, drugs, alcohol, and parents with…
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News - August last year, a 3 year old little boy went home from kindergarten with bruises on his arm. He told his parents he was assaulted by the director, Nashi Shehapi. According to the boy, the woman did not ‘just’ hit him, she locked him into the “mouse hole”- the cupboard…
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News - Local Government Association (LGA), which represents English Councils, claims that based on surveys, the 53% rise in child protection cases is caused mainly by domestic violence, conflicts, drugs, and alcohol. Substance misuse caused 80% of identified…
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News - In France, more than 220,000 women suffer abuse from their partner each year, and one woman dies every three days as a result of domestic violence. The French National Assembly voted to approve, among other things, a bracelet that would protect women from their violent…
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News - As a first country in the UK Scotland has made it a crime for parents to smack their children. The new regulation will grant the children the same protection from assault as adults.
Smacking in England is illegal, excluding cases where it is used as “reasonable punishment…
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News - In Hungary, each week a woman dies by the hand of her partner or ex-partner.
Statistics on Parlament.hu shows that:
it is eight times higher the risk that a woman to be killed by her partner, than a stranger,
every fifth woman lived in an abusive relationship,
every fifth…
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News - A school-district investigation was launched for physical assault at the school in Gyöngyöspata. One of the leaders pressed a 12-year-old child against the wall with force, causing bruises on the child’s body- said the mother, who witnessed the assault. In October, a…
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News - What can someone do who flees from an abusive relationship? Who to turn to?
In many cases, the victim will only devote himself/herself to escape when his or her life or the child's life is in danger. In such cases, it is rarely possible for professionals to prepare the…
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News - PIG is an independent project of the Bulgarian director Drago Sholev and will be part of the main competition program of the upcoming Sofia Film Fest. The film tells the story of the thirteen-year-old Stoyan, played by Rumen Kochev, whom everyone calls the Pig. The hero is a…
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Online library - Noema Agency have conducted a nationwide representative survey commissioned by the National Network for Children including both parents and young people / future parents and children. Among the most significant results of the study is that 88% of parents agree that…
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Webinar - About the webinar:
Physical abuse or physical harm is often spotted when the children present bruises, burns, cuts and other marks on their bodies and all too often the professionals see these marks but fail to respond. Does this seem familiar? …
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Event - The training course "Battling homophobia and bullying among youth" will be held by LGBT info center from Serbia, in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia, 6th-15th April 2018.
LGBT youth suffers homophobia, violence and lack of solidarity from their peers nor their teachers during…
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Webinar - Modern parenthood is full of challenges and majority of adults say that the role of a parent is the most beautiful and the hardest one in their life. Most of the time, parents want the best for their children, but there are moments when they feel frustrated and helpless,…
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Multimedia - On February 2nd 2018, in the Croatian Radio "Poligraf", the topic of violence against and among children was discussed. Guests in the studio were Gordana Buljan Flander, PhD, Director of Child and Youth Protection Center of Zagreb; Dejana Bouillet, PhD…
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Online library - This is one of three booklets produced by the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment with support from Save the Children Sweden.
These booklets should give parents and carers, government officials, education professionals and others the confidence to…
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Multimedia - By Katherine B. Wiens M.Ed, M.S. and Micheal Blackford / CASA: A Voice for Children Inc. board members
The Child Welfare Information Gateway, a service of the Children’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services offers these guidelines for recognizing…
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Online library - From the Abstract:
"Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) such as child abuse are related to poor health outcomes. Spanking has indicated a similar association with health outcomes, but to date has not been considered an ACE". The research has taken spanking and…
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Multimedia - This ChildHub video summarizes the latest UNICEF report on violence against children in the EU. The video highlights the facts, figures, and challenges of child protection in the region.
