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News - Migrant children and children affected by traumatic events must be interviewed with respect, empathy and tactfully, a press release of the Romanian Centre for Independent Journalism is warning: https://cji.ro/  Active Watch and the Journalism Centre ask the Romanian…
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News - Georgie, 17, shared her challenges with loneliness and her use of social media to deal with it. She also shared crucial information about the importance of staying safe on social media and being responsible (being careful about sharing personal information…
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Multimedia - A national information and awareness campaign on the phenomenon of bullying in schools from the Republic of Moldova was launched by Terre des hommes Foundation: STOP BULLYING! I stop. I talk. I Help. According to a study, about 87%…
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News - This year has seen the United States come face to face with inequity in many fields and one of them is school communities. We know that the children who suffered most during the spring of remote learning were overwhelmingly black and brown,…
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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 - A student movement called Adom, reported on how children infected with coronavirus are bullied and abused by their peers. Some children attend school only to find out later that they were carrying the virus. These children are shamed for attending school…
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Multimedia - It was a groundbreaking and very disturbing moment when Sigmund Freud announced in his theory that the root of all emotional disturbances in adulthood was to be found in trauma (sexual) during early periods of childhood. Although his emphasis on sexuality has been…
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News - Two former residents of the Kalocsa children’s home decided to report their stories of torture and abuse suffered while they lived there. Two supervisors of the home also commented anonymously on the atrocities taking place within the walls of the institution. Both former…
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News - In Hungary, June is about cyberbullying due to a new campaign, and the timing is very topical. Experts say quarantine over the epidemic is causing an increase in online abuse. According to UNICEF data, in Hungary 88% of children aged 10-18 are present on social media, 20% of…
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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 - In October 2019, Terre des hommes launched a unique project aimed to promote child safeguarding policies in sports settings in Romania and Greece, in partnership with Tdh Hungary. Through this project, Tdh committed to ensuring that children and young people benefit from…
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News - Intergenerational cycle (transmission violence) is a term used when adults who experienced and went through direct violence and long-term psychological pressure growing up show the same behaviour to his/her partner or children. If a trained…
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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 - “I have no doubt that social media helped kill my daughter.”- confessed Ian Russal who has become a campaigner against social media harm since his 14-year-old daughter Molly committed suicide in 2017. This is just one of the cases that highlights the social media’s…
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News - Although there are at least 55 million children in Europe who experience some kind of violence each year, according to WHO incidents of interpersonal violence are widely unreported. According to the estimations, 9.6% of…
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News - In her study, ‘Violence at School, Bullying at School’, Mariann Buda writes that more than one-third of children are somehow involved in school violence, whether as a bully or a victim. Fifteen percent of children are bullied several times a week, while one in four is a…
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News - The Family Secret, a documentary recently shown on Channel 4, raises awareness of a very important, but not well-researched problem: sibling sexual abuse. Some estimations say it is at least five times more prevalent than parent-to-child sexual abuse. Sibling sexual…
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News - According to surveys, Romania is ranked first in Europe in terms of the level of school bullying. To remedy the situation, a law has been drafted to prohibit bullying in educational institutions. The methodology will be shortly developed by the Ministry of Education. Well-…
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News - What can I do when I experience abuse? Dr Szilvia Gyurkó has gathered this information in one place and adds that the system is not flawless, there may be obstacles at every point, so it is better to ask for help from multiple channels. If the victim is a child and…
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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 - Éva László, a lecturer at the Hungarian Institute of Sociology and Social Work at the BBTE, gave a lecture to parents and educators on how to inform your child about sexual abuse, as part of the Sunflower program of the János Zsigmond Unitarian College in Cluj-Napoca.…
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News - A recent study conducted by the University of Birmingham shows that children who are victims of various forms of child abuse or neglect are four times more prone to mental illnesses such as psychoses, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder than those who are not. The research…
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News - Dr Szilvia Gyurkó, children’s rights expert’s thoughts are summarized in nlc.hu article about what needs to happen in order to eliminate violence and abuse in children’s lives. Hungarian children are the least aware of their rights in Europe. A survey on the topic showed…
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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 - As summer comes to an end and children return to school the widespread issue of bullying starts taking its toll on the lives of a significant number of students.  According to the American National Center for Education Statistics, in 2017, more than 20 percent of…
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News - Many children returning to school face bullying and may suffer from anxiety, depression, feelings of shame, and other severe problems. Bullying can have immediate and long-lasting consequences on a young person’s mental health. Bullying comes in many forms: verbal, physical…