Items of Interest:
- 2013 Election of Childwatch Board: Call for Nominations. Childwatch International invites nomination of candidates for the Board of the Childwatch International Research Network for the period 2013 – 2016. The Call for Nominations will remain open for a six week period commencing on Monday 3 June and closing on Monday 15 July 2013 to allow all nominations to be submitted for the new 10 member Board. Read more...
- New Journal to be launched: The Lancet Global Health: develops The Lancet's commitment to evidence-based medicine and public health in low-income and middle-income countries and offer readers unrestricted access to all content. Launching in June, 2013, The Lancet Global Health Journal will publish high-quality original research, commentary, correspondence, and blogs on the following subjects as they pertain to low- and middle-income countries: reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and child health; adolescent health; infectious diseases, including neglected tropical diseases; non-communicable diseases; mental health; the global health workforce; health systems; health policy; and public health. Read below for the journal's call for papers.
- Editorial from Equidad para la Infancia about Indigenous Childhoods: Diversity, Dignity and Equal Rights. Última editorial de Equidad para la Infancia: Infancias indígenas: diversidad, dignidad e igualdad de derechos, reune documentos variados que permiten conocer un poco más sobre la situación de los niños/as y adolescentes indígenas en los países latino-americanos. Read more...
New Research Projects, Guides and Tools:
- New research project: Political Engagement Among Young People. Norwegian Social Research (NOVA) has initiated a new research project about political attitudes and engagement among Norwegian youth. Trust and mistrust in societal and political institutions among ordinary and radical youth is central to the study. Read more...
- Recent work from the Cornell Youth in Society project. The Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research's Cornell Youth in Society carries out research and outreach to understand and enhance community supports and opportunities for young people making the transition to adulthood in the United States and around the world. Read about their latest projects: Mentoring Youth at Work and Multiple pathways through education to careers. Read more...
Calls for Abstracts/Papers/Proposals:
- Call for papers: The Lancet Global Health. Inviting submissions of original research on any aspect of global health for the forthcoming launch of The Lancet Global Health; please submit your paper through our online submission system EES. The Lancet's usual rigorous standards of peer review and technical editing will apply. Read more...
- Call for Applications: World Social Science Fellows. The International Social Science Council (ISSC) calls for applications from outstanding early career social and other scientists around the world to become World Social Science Fellows. Deadline: July 15th, 2013. Read more...
- Call for Abstracts: 4th European Conference for Social Work and Research: Private troubles or public issues? Challenges for social work research. When the very idea of welfare state is undermined, researchers, scholars, practitioners in social work are challenged to connect their endeavours to the core of social work mission and the support of social solidarity. Place: Free University of Bozen/Bolzano – EURAC Date:15 -16- 17 April 2014. Deadline for papers:
1 June 2013 – 30 October. Read more...
- Call for Abstracts: Genital Autonomy 2014 "Whole Bodies, Whole Selves: Activating Social Change". The National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (USA), Intact America, Genital Autonomy (UK and Australia), and the Sexpo Foundation (Finland) present the 13th International Symposium on Genital Autonomy and Children’s Rights at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA. Date July 24-26, 2014. Deadline for abstracts December 15, 2013 . Read more...
- Call for Abstracts: I International Scientific and Practical Conference: "Deprivation of children at risk: educational technology of prevention, rehabilitation and support". This conference aims to discuss the problems and achievements of foreign and domestic science and practice in prevention, intervention, rehabilitation, and support for children at risk. DATES: 14-15 November 2013. VENUE & LOCATION: MGPPU (Moscow State University of Psychology and Education) Deadline: July 1, 2013 Read more...
Events
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24th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care. Time and place: Jun 12, 2013 - Jun 15, 2013, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Professionals in attendance will enhance the welfare of children of all ages everywhere. The multidisciplinary setting is also ideal for developing new professional contacts.
21st European Social Services Conference. Time and place: Jun 17, 2013 - Jun 19, 2013, Dublin, Ireland. The European Social Network (ESN) will be organising its 21st annual conference next year in Dublin in cooperation with the Irish Presidency of the European Union.
- International Seminar on Urban Inequalities in Childhood and Adolescence: Urban Social and Political Rights / Seminario Internacional Desigualdades Urbanas en la Infancia y la Adolescencia: Derechos y Politicas Sociales Urbanas. On July 3-4, 2013 Equity for Children and Equidad para la Infancia will co-host an International Seminar on Children and Intra-Urban Inequalities at the Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires. The conference will address the rights of children and adolescents in urban settings. Read more...
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Inequalities in Children’s Outcomes in Developing Countries. Time and place: Jul 8, 2013 - Jul 9, 2013, St Anne's College, Oxford, England. This conference will bring together papers that discuss the extent of inequalities in key indicators of children’s human capital and well-being, especially how inequalities change and evolve, and the factors that mitigate or reinforce early inequalities and explain their evolution over time.
Publications
Books:
- New Book: Changing Lives in Andhra Pradesh: Young Lives Children Growing Up: This new book charts the lives and aspirations of 13 of the Young Lives children in India. Their stories tell a fascinating tale of how children in Andhra Pradesh see their lives and give us a unique insight into how their lives are changing as they are growing up. Authors: Uma Vennam and Piyali Sarkar. Read more...
Research Reports:
- Unicef Report: State of the World's Children: Children with Disabilities. The 2013 edition of The State of the World’s Children, launched May 30, is dedicated to the situation of children with disabilities. The report examines the barriers – from inaccessible buildings to dismissive attitudes, from invisibility in official statistics to vicious discrimination – that deprive children with disabilities of their rights and keep them from participating fully in society. Read more...
- Countdown to 2015 has launched new report: Accountability for Maternal, Newborn & Child Survival: The 2013 Update. This report was launched at the Women Deliver conference, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in May 2013. It highlights country achievements in increasing coverage of key interventions, and identify remaining challenges many countries face in reaching all women and children with life-saving services. Read more...
- Protecting Migrant Children in a Freedom of Movement Area: Transnational monitoring of return procedures involving Romanian and Bulgarian migrant children in Greece and France. This research paper published by Terre Des Hommes, looks at the intra EU migration of Romanian and Bulgarian children to France and Greece in situations of vulnerability. It focuses on the return procedures that are used by countries and assesses the latter in the light of the principle of the best interests of the Child as enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child to which all EU Member States have adhered. Read more...
- EveryChild Moldova’s Programme Experience: Improving Children’s Lives through Deinstitutionalization. The report identifies and analyses the approach to deinstitutionalisation that was adopted in Moldova, and identifies best practices and lessons that may be relevant, useful and replicable by other initiatives and organisations both within Moldova and worldwide. Read more...
- Child Responsive Accountability. This paper links the concept and practice of accountability with child rights, by asking: (1) What accountability means when children are the rights holders, and whose role is it to exact that accountability? (2) What are the assumptions underpinning social accountability, and how can they be revised from the child-rights perspective? (3) How do social and political dynamics at community and national levels, often not linked to child rights issues, shape accountability outcomes? Read more...
Journal and Bulletins:
- PMNCH Knowledge Summary #25 Integrating immunization and other services for women and children - Publisher: The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
- New issue of the journal Childhood May 2013 Issue - Sage Publications on behalf of Norwegian Centre for Child Research
Working Papers:
- New Innocenti Working Paper: Making the Investment Case for Social Protection: Methodological challenges with lessons learnt from a recent study in Cambodia. The focus in this paper is on non-contributory social transfers which are considered to be the main social protection instruments targeted specifically at poor and vulnerable households, and which are financed from general government revenues. Read more...
Policy Briefs:
- Briefing Paper on Bullying: An analysis of ten years of child helpline data on bullying. New briefing paper about bullying of children and young people around the world. It is based on more than 126 million contacts that child helplines received from children and young people in the past 10 years. The paper was released on the 16 May 2013 at The Hague and presented to the Human Rights Ambassador of The Netherlands by Child Helpline International (CHI). Read more...
Links to the latest newsletters on child research:
Developments: Newsletter of the Society for Research in Child Development -April 2013 (Volume 56, Number 2)
Healthy Environments for Children Alliance listserv - WHO - May 2013
CanChild Today - May 3, 2013 Centre for Childhood Disability Research