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Here We Stand: World Vision and Child Rights (2nd Edition)
These thirteen short papers provide an overview of World Vision's responses to major challenges facing children around the world today, including armed conflict, emergencies, HIV and AIDS, and sexual exploitation, among other issues.  The papers explain our policy and advocacy work on these issues and our commitment to the rights of children.



An Open Letter to Prime Minister Harper re: the Report on the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights (May 2, 2007)
World Vision calls on the federal government to take concrete actions to protect the rights of children at home and abroad.

World Vision's Second Submission to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights
This submission was prepared with research support from the Child Rights Working Group, a student-led intitiative of the University of Toronto's International Human Rights Program.

Legislative Measures for the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
This companion paper to World Vision's Second Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights elaborates on the issues and recommendations raised.


Creating an Enabling Environment for the Advancement of Women and Girls
This briefing paper to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women presents many challenges that women in the developing world are faced with and provides recommendations on how to face those challenges.


Putting Children First
World Vision presented this document to the Standing Senate Human Rights Committee for hearings on Canada's international obligations in regards to the rights and freedoms of children.


Faces of Violence
A World Vision Online magazine-style resource, which provides detailed explorations of the violence faced by children throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.


Protecting Children: A Biblical Perspective on Child Rights
This document stems from World Vision's experience working with children around the world and advocating for child rights as a Christian humanitarian organization. It discusses biblical themes of justice, compassion, and grace as well as how they relate to child rights.

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Children's Work-Adults' Play: Child Sex Tourism in Cambodia
World Vision explores various aspects of the Cambodian child sex trade through interviews and offers recommendations in conjunction with the government to eliminate the practice.

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Every Girl Counts: Development, Justice and Gender
This publication takes an in-depth approach to 12 key areas that affect girls, including harmful traditional practices, sexual exploitation, armed conflict, HIV and AIDS, child labour, as well as access to education, nutrition, and health care.

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Creating Space for Children's Participation: Planning with Street Children in Yangon, Myanmar
This report summarizes the results of a unique World Vision project which invited the child recipients to evaluate the "Street Children and Working Children Program" in Myanmar.

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A Safe World for Children
This report documents the tremendous challenges facing children today, and includes recommendations to eliminate the unnecessary suffering of abuse, exploitation, neglect, and violence.

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Good Work, Bad Work, Tough Choices: Child Labour and World Vision's Area Development Programs
Through World Vision's experience working in developing countries, it is clear that children will continue to work until there are viable and sustainable alternatives that reach the entire family and community. This report is based on children's own participation in the research project from area development programs in Thailand, Philippines, and India.

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