Investing in activism: Learning from children’s actions to stop child marriage

Stop Forced Child Marriage: A Comparative Global Law Analysis

Millions of girls are forcibly married during the transitional period between puberty and adulthood. At a stage of vulnerability cultural practices, religious rights and social standards place her in a position where she is catapult into womanhood. An advocate against forced child marriage could argue that child rights, cultural rights, religious rights, right to marry, right to life, right to ...

Child Support Enforcement and Childrens Consumption

This paper examines the consequences of child support enforcement on children’s consumption. I model the interaction in separated couples as a repeated game between the noncustodial father and the custodial mother who exclusively controls the child’s consumption. The father can only in‡uence the child’s consumption through transfers to the mother. Initially, parents agree on transfer payments a...

Investing in Child Nutrition in Asia

Child malnutrition is pervasive and persistent in Asia, and at present rates it will take decades to halve the prevalence—a goal common to many national plans. Nutrition-oriented programs are familiar in most countries, but have far too low coverage and resources, which is wasteful as well as ineffective. A massive expansion of community-based programs is feasible, with well-established activit...

Investing in Teacher Learning

norms and constraints in translating childrens novels from english into persian

abstract foreign and iranian cultures are far distinct in the constraints imposed on writing and translating for children, since the iranian literary system is mainly concerned with cultural and religious instructions which lead to manipulation of translated texts. this study sought to identify the cultural and social constraints and norms which determined the strategies applied in the transl...