The FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University (Harvard FXB) is launching a new free online course: “Child Protection: Children’s Rights in Theory and Practice”. This self-paced course is done in cooperation with Harvard’s online initiative, HarvardX and starts on January 16th. It is developed for those who would like to learn how to protect children from violence, exploitation, and neglect through law, policy, and practice in a human rights framework, through a child-centered systems approach to prevention and response.

You can learn more about the course and enroll here.

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