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Author: Dr. Andy West and Emily Delap
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01 October 2012
This paper is part of an inter-agency series originally developed to feed into the global thematic consultation for the post MDG framework: ‘Addressing Inequalities. The Heart of the Post-2015 Development Agenda and the Future We Want for All.’ The consultancy for this paper was organized by UNICEF and UN Women. The lack of care and protection facing children is a global crisis with billions of children experiencing abuse, neglect or exploitation, and many millions growing up outside of families, on the streets or in harmful institutional care. This lack of adequate care and protection is commonly the result of inequalities.
Therefore, a three-pronged strategy is required which sees: reductions in social and economic inequalities that have a major impact on children’s care and protection; increased investments in strong and equitable national child protection systems and efforts to address the stigma and discrimination faced by children without adequate care and protection. This paper looks at the relationship between the lack of care and protection and inequality, explores how inadequate care and protection produces and contributes to inequalities, and examines how inequality is itself a cause of inadequate care and protection.
Family for Every Child, Better Care Network, Consortium for Street Children, Save the Children, SOS Children's Villages International, Terre de Hommes International Federation, World Vision