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        <title>LEBANON: Children Call for an End to Violence (Arabic)</title>
        <description><p>Date: 29 October 2008</p><p>&amp;#1604;&amp;#1576;&amp;#1606;&amp;#1575;&amp;#1606;: &amp;#1575;&amp;#1604;&amp;#1571;&amp;#1591;&amp;#1601;&amp;#1575;&amp;#1604; &amp;#1610;&amp;#1591;&amp;#1575;&amp;#1604;&amp;#1576;&amp;#1608;&amp;#1606; &amp;#1576;&amp;#1608;&amp;#1602;&amp;#1601; &amp;#1575;&amp;#1604;&amp;#1593;&amp;#1606;&amp;#1601;[&amp;#1576;&amp;#1610;&amp;#1585;&amp;#1608;&amp;#1578;&amp;#1548; 24 &amp;#1571;&amp;#1603;&amp;#1578;&amp;#1608;&amp;#1576;&amp;#1585; 2008] &amp;#1</p></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Lebanon: Day of Action against Violence 2008 (Arabic)</title>
        <description><p>Date: 29 October 2008</p><p>&amp;#1610;&amp;#1608;&amp;#1605; &amp;#1575;&amp;#1604;&amp;#1578;&amp;#1581;&amp;#1585;&amp;#1603; &amp;#1575;&amp;#1604;&amp;#1593;&amp;#1575;&amp;#1604;&amp;#1605;&amp;#1610; &amp;#1590;&amp;#1583; &amp;#1575;&amp;#1604;&amp;#1593;&amp;#1606;&amp;#1601; 2008&amp;#1573;&amp;#1606; &amp;quot;&amp;#1610;&amp;#1608;&amp;#1605; &amp;#1575;&amp;#1604;&amp;#1578;&amp;#1581;&amp;#1585;&amp;#1603; &amp;#1575;&amp;#1604;&amp;#1593;&amp;#1575;&amp;#1604;&amp;#1605;&amp;#</p></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>LEBANON: Children Call for an End to Violence</title>
        <description><p>Date: 28 October 2008</p><p>[BEIRUT, 24 October 2008] - Today more than 400 children are gathering with representatives from the Government at the UNESCO Palace in Lebanon to present their recommendations for stopping violence against children on Save the Children&amp;rsquo;s Day of Action, the largest global campaign by children.</p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=18811</link>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>LEBANON: Child Sexual Abuse Situation (Arabic)</title>
        <description><p>Date: 12 October 2008</p><p>&amp;#1604;&amp;#1576;&amp;#1606;&amp;#1575;&amp;#1606;: &amp;#1575;&amp;#1604;&amp;#1573;&amp;#1587;&amp;#1575;&amp;#1569;&amp;#1577; &amp;#1575;&amp;#1604;&amp;#1580;&amp;#1606;&amp;#1587;&amp;#1610;&amp;#1577; &amp;#1604;&amp;#1604;&amp;#1591;&amp;#1601;&amp;#1604;&amp;#1602;&amp;#1604;&amp;#1617;&amp;#1605;&amp;#1575; &amp;#1578;&amp;#1605;&amp;#1617; &amp;#1578;&amp;#1606;&amp;#1575;&amp;#1608;&amp;#1604; &amp;#1605;&amp;#1587;&amp;#1571;&amp;#1604;&amp;#1577</p></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>LEBANON: Child Sexual Abuse - the situation in Lebanon</title>
        <description><p>Date: 10 October 2008</p><p>The problem of child sexual abuse (CSA) has scarcely been addressed in the Arab world, despite its prevalence worldwide. This study is therefore unique as it is the first to be conducted in Lebanon exploring and highlighting a problem that has otherwise been left behind closed doors in this region. </p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=18660</link>
        <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Gender-Based Sexual Violence Against Teenage Girls in the Middle East (Arabic)</title>
        <description><p>Date: 5 April 2008</p><p>&amp;#1575;&amp;#1604;&amp;#1593;&amp;#1606;&amp;#1601; &amp;#1575;&amp;#1604;&amp;#1580;&amp;#1606;&amp;#1587;&amp;#1610; &amp;#1590;&amp;#1583; &amp;#1575;&amp;#1604;&amp;#1605;&amp;#1585;&amp;#1575;&amp;#1607;&amp;#1602;&amp;#1575;&amp;#1578; &amp;#1601;&amp;#1610; &amp;#1575;&amp;#1604;&amp;#1588;&amp;#1585;&amp;#1602; &amp;#1575;&amp;#1604;&amp;#1571;&amp;#1608;&amp;#1587;&amp;#1591;:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;#1604;&amp;#1576;&amp;#1606;&amp;#1575;&amp;#1606;&amp;</p></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>VIOLENCE: Gender-Based Sexual Violence Against Teenage Girls in the Middle East</title>
        <description><p>Date: 5 April 2008</p><p>In ArabicA report by Save the Children Sweden entitled Gender Based Sexual Violence Against Teenage Girls in the Middle East presents a comparative situation analysis of honour violence, early marriages and sexual abuse in Lebanon, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Yemen.The 173-page report p</p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=16850</link>
        <pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>VIOLENCE STUDY: NGO Representative for Middle East and North Africa [nominations]</title>
        <description><p>Date: 3 September 2007</p><p>Call for nominations for NGO representatives for the NGO Advisory Council for follow up to the UN Study on Violence Against Children for the Middle East and North Africa.</p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=14679</link>
        <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>NGOs unite to end Violence against Children in Lebanon</title>
        <description><p>Date: 26 July 2007</p><p>A roundtable discussion took place&amp;nbsp;in Beirut on 27 June 2007&amp;nbsp;to follow-up on the Arabic launch of the UN Study on Violence against Children produced calls for developing a national strategy addressing this issue. The event, entitled UN Study on Violence against Children: Next Steps for Leb</p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=14175</link>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>LEBANON: Save the Children Sweden launches mine risk awareness television spots</title>
        <description><p>Date: 23 July 2007</p><p>Save the Children Sweden is launching two animation television spots on Mine Risk Awareness aimed for children. The two 40-second cartoon-spots will be broadcast approximately 100 times for at least four&amp;nbsp;weeks beginning the 22nd of July 2007 on Spacetoon Kids TV and local TV channels. With the </p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=14116</link>
        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>MIDDLE EAST and NORTH AFRICA: Call for proposals</title>
        <description><p>Date: 12 July 2007</p><p>Save the Children Sweden has been present in the Middle East and North Africa region for the past 40 years, working in close partnership with a wide range of actors to better promote, protect, and fulfil the rights of children.&amp;nbsp;The Save the Children Sweden Lebanon office is now beginning its pl</p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=14009</link>
        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>VIOLENCE: Children prepare for launch of Arabic Violence Study</title>
        <description><p>Date: 22 June 2007</p><p>Save the Children &amp;ndash; working to make children&amp;rsquo;s voices count in consultations for the UN Study on Violence against Children[CAIRO, 22 June 2007] -&amp;nbsp;Children are gathering in Cairo to participate in a number of activities organised by Save the Children and the National Council for Chil</p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=13785</link>
        <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>World Refugee Day &#8211; Living as a Refugee in Lebanon</title>
        <description><p>Date: 20 June 2007</p><p>World Refugee Day &amp;ndash; Living as a Refugee in Lebanon[Beirut, 20 June 2007]&amp;nbsp;&amp;ndash; A roundtable discussion organized to commemorate World Refugee Day Wednesday produced calls for action on durable solutions for refugees to protect them from discrimination and persecution.&amp;ldquo;This day is </p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=13786</link>
        <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>The War on Lebanon: Displaced Children&#8217;s Testimonies</title>
        <description><p>Date: 31 July 2006</p><p>Save the Children Sweden has supported a total of 202 displaced families so far coming from different villages in south Lebanon during the war. The report presents testimonies and photos of some of the displaced children.</p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=11460</link>
        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Listen to the Children in Palestine &amp;quot;This wall is like a prison&amp;quot; [Arabic]</title>
        <description><p>Date: 7 July 2006</p><p>This reports presents the Palestinian children's view on the Israeli wall where they talk about its negative impact on their lives.</p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=11461</link>
        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Woman or Child? Voices of teenage girls in the Middle East</title>
        <description><p>Date: 25 October 2005</p><p>The study investigates the situation of teenage girls in the Middle East with particular emphasis on participation and non-discri-mination from a gender-based discrimination perspective. Teenage girls in Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Yemen have been intervie-wed for this purpose. The report emanates as an attempt to listen to these children, and to ground the results on their experiences. </p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=6403</link>
        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>UN Study on Violence against Children, &amp;quot;Violence in Schools&amp;quot;: Capacities for Action [Arabic]</title>
        <description><p>Date: 29 June 2005</p><p>This report outlines the problem that Lebanon faces in safeguarding its schools from violence, and demonstrate how The Training Center for Community Development (TCCD) with Save the Children Sweden have worked with parents, children and teachers to find a successful solution for this violence in schools.</p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=11562</link>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>UN Study on Violence against Children, &amp;quot;Violence in Schools&amp;quot;: Capacities for Action </title>
        <description><p>Date: 29 June 2005</p><p>This report outlines the problem that Lebanon faces in safeguarding its schools from violence, and demonstrate how The Training Center for Community Development (TCCD) with Save the Children Sweden have worked with parents, children and teachers to find a successful solution for this violence in schools.</p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=11574</link>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Middle East and North Africa Regional Report on Corporal Punishment</title>
        <description><p>Date: 1 June 2005</p><p>This report is a Middle East and North Africa regional report on corporal punishment by Save the Children-Sweden for the UN Secretary General&#8217;s Study on Violence Against Children.</p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=11582</link>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>The Situation and Rights of Palestinian Children in the Occupied Palestinian Territories </title>
        <description><p>Date: 1 March 2005</p><p>In this briefing paper prepared for the UN High Commission for Human Rights, Save the Children seek to shed light over how Palestinian children&#8217;s rights have been continuously violated throughout 2004 and up to this day. The issues that the report focus on are house demolition and Imprisonment of children.</p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=11581</link>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Corporal Punishment in Lebanese Schools </title>
        <description><p>Date: 1 January 2005</p><p>This report on Lebanon forms part of a general report of child abuse and child mistreatment in the MENA region. The main objective of this report is to demonstrate School Child, as background information. Its main purpose, therefore, is to demonstrate Save the Children Sweden&#8217;s fundamental good practice projects/programs aimed at eliminating corporal punishment in schools, in the Lebanon, to illustrate how violence in schools impacts the development of the child in all areas. It will contribute to Save the Children&#8217;s thematic contribution to the UN study. </p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=11580</link>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Physical and Humiliating Punishment of Children in Yemen </title>
        <description><p>Date: 1 January 2005</p><p>The report provides an overview of the extent of the use of physical and humiliating punishment against children in Yemen. It aims to explore the extent of the problem and to highlight some of the dimensions and underlying causes in order to provide a greater understanding and awareness of this issue. The report concludes with recommendations for strategies and policies to reduce and prevent physical and humiliating punishment.</p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=11576</link>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>West Bank and Gaza: Children in Detention Exposed to Violence and Abuse </title>
        <description><p>Date: 1 January 2005</p><p>This report gives a general overview of what law Israel applies to the children arrested and detained by its army in the Palestinian Occupied Territories. In addition, it provides information and best practice of work Save the Children Sweden has carried out to support the children in Israeli detention. Finally, the report presents the preventive measures that have been taken to decrease the number of arrests of children, put an end to Israel&#8217;s policy of child arrest and detention and treat these children in accordance with the Convention of the Right of the Child (CRC).</p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=11577</link>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Sexual Assault and Exploitation of Children in Syria </title>
        <description><p>Date: 1 January 2005</p><p>The analysis of sexual assaults and exploitation of children in Syria face many difficulties, especially because it is a private and familial matter that is not expressed openly. Moreover, there are no numbers and national indexes concerning this subject, and the government does not give it sufficient attention, which makes it difficult to define the volume of the phenomenon. But there are certain indices through specific research and lawsuits that arrive at the courts and in the juvenile institutes, in addition to some of what is published in the local newspapers.</p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=11578</link>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Sexual Assault and Exploitation of Children in Syria [Arabic]</title>
        <description><p>Date: 1 January 2005</p><p>The analysis of sexual assaults and exploitation of children in Syria face many difficulties, especially because it is a private and familial matter that is not expressed openly. Moreover, there are no numbers and national indexes concerning this subject, and the government does not give it sufficient attention, which makes it difficult to define the volume of the phenomenon. But there are certain indices through specific research and lawsuits that arrive at the courts and in the juvenile institutes, in addition to some of what is published in the local newspapers.</p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=11563</link>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>West Bank and Gaza: Children in Detention Exposed to Violence and Abuse [Arabic]</title>
        <description><p>Date: 1 January 2005</p><p>This report gives a general overview of what law Israel applies to the children arrested and detained by its army in the Palestinian Occupied Territories. In addition, it provides information and best practice of work Save the Children Sweden has carried out to support the children in Israeli detention. Finally, the report presents the preventive measures that have been taken to decrease the number of arrests of children, put an end to Israel&#8217;s policy of child arrest and detention and treat these children in accordance with the Convention of the Right of the Child (CRC).</p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=11564</link>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Physical and Humiliating Punishment of Children in Yemen [Arabic]</title>
        <description><p>Date: 1 January 2005</p><p>The report provides an overview of the extent of the use of physical and humiliating punishment against children in Yemen. It aims to explore the extent of the problem and to highlight some of the dimensions and underlying causes in order to provide a greater understanding and awareness of this issue. The report concludes with recommendations for strategies and policies to reduce and prevent physical and humiliating punishment.</p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=11565</link>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>The Role of the Public Administration in Implementing a Ban on the Corporal Punishment in Schools in Lebanon</title>
        <description><p>From 01 January 2004 to 05 February 1969</p><p>The report points out the inner discrepancies of the Lebanese legal system in dealing with corporal punishment. It also assesses the role of public administration in implementing a ban on corporal punishment. The paper analyses the current legal and administrative situations and present challenges that will have to be met in order to achieve a complete and non-discriminatory ban on corporal punishment at schools in Lebanon.</p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=4102</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2004 06:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>One Day in Prison Feels Like a Year: Palestinian Children Tell their Own Stories [Arabic]</title>
        <description><p>Date: 1 December 2003</p><p>On commission from Save the Children, in summer 2003 the journalist and photographer Mia Gr&#246;ndahl carried out a number of interviews with young Palestinians from the West Bank, all of whom were aged under eighteen. In this report, these children talk in their own words about the serious violations of their rights to which they have been subjected in Israeli prisons and military detention camps, and about how they view the future.</p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=11557</link>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>One Day in Prison Feels Like a Year: Palestinian Children Tell their Own Stories </title>
        <description><p>Date: 1 December 2003</p><p>On commission from Save the Children, in summer 2003 the journalist and photographer Mia Gr&#246;ndahl carried out a number of interviews with young Palestinians from the West Bank, all of whom were aged under eighteen. In this report, these children talk in their own words about the serious violations of their rights to which they have been subjected in Israeli prisons and military detention camps, and about how they view the future.</p></description>
        <link>http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=11579</link>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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