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• Ombudswork for Children
• Children and Violence
• Juvenile Justice
• Intercountry Adoption
• Child Domestic Work
• Domestic Violence against Women and Girls
• Early Marriage: Child Spouses
• Independent Institutions Protecting 
Children’s Rights
• Birth Registration: Right from the start
• Poverty and Exclusion among Urban Children
• Ensuring the Rights of Indigenous Children
• Changing a Harmful Social Convention: 
Female genital mutilation/cutting
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