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Teenage pregnancy rates in Brazil are amongst the highest in Latin America.
Significant evidence associates teenage pregnancy with school dropout, lower educational outcomes, poor maternal and infant health, and higher poverty rates.
The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study is a large school-based survey carried out every four years in collaboration with the WHO Regional Office for Europe.
Globally, 150 million adolescents report being victims of or engaging in peer-to-peer violence in and around school. One strategy to reduce this risk is to occupy youth in afterschool programs (ASP). Yet, the question remains: how does peer group composition affect the effectiveness of an ASP?
After-school programs (ASP) that keep youth protected while engaging them in socio-emotional learning might address school-based violent behaviors.
En agosto de 2013 tuvo lugar en Montevideo (Uruguay) la “Primera reunión de la Conferencia Regional sobre Población y Desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe- Integración plena de la población y su dinámica en el desarrollo sostenible con igualdad y enfoque de derechos: clave para el Programa de
School feeding is essential for promoting education, health, peace and social cohesion. At a time when countries and their partners are evaluating strategies to reduce chronic malnutrition, malnutrition and poverty, the discussion of school feeding models becomes imperative.
El presente artículo muestra los datos empíricos producidos en el proceso de investigación acción participativa desarrollado entre los años 2021-2022 con comunidades educativas rurales de Haití, Honduras y Nicaragua sobre incidencia y expresiones de las violencias basadas en género.
El presente reporte presenta su punto de partida, la ruta metodológica y principales hallazgos de la investigación.
La violencia en la escuela es un problema que afecta a una proporción importante de estudiantes en todo el mundo.
This paper presents the results of formative research conducted from January to June 2020 in the Department of Atlántico, Caribbean region of Colombia, whose findings were used as inputs to design the national strategy for comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) outside school – Tírala Plena – in