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This toolbox, developed by UNICEF and made accesible in May 2025, is an assessment of child rights impacts in relation to the digital environment. It uses a methodology based on the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) to assess how a company’s products, services and operations impact all child rights, as detailed in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other relevant human rights instruments. The process includes: collecting data and engaging stakeholders; identifying and assessing child rights impacts (and opportunities) associated with the company’s platforms, services or products; and determining appropriate actions to mitigate adverse impacts. Click the button below for a link to the D-CRIA toolbox. 

UNICEF's annual report highlights challenges faced by children worldwide, offering details on ongoing threats to girls and women on the issues of female genital mutilation and child marriage. The publication also offers data on the Global Gender Equality Thematic Fund, a funding mechanism used by UNICEF to strengthen systems, address urgent needs, and scale up successful initiatives focused on gender equality. 

This paper analyzes 24 studies on Life Skills Education in the school curriculum targeting an adolescent population of 10-19-year-olds, from the year 2013 to 2023. The review reinforces the theory that by incorporating life skills such as self-awareness, empathy, critical thinking, creative thinking, decision-making, problem-solving, interpersonal communication, emotional intelligence, stress management, and resilience building into the curriculum, students gain valuable insights and practical skills that contribute to their overall well-being. 

This is a systematc review, by scholars from the Universities of Santiago de Compostela, Vigo and Alicante, in Spain, of numerous scientific studies that confirm that soft skills improve when they are developed through music in educational contexts. Soft skills, such as teamwork, communication, or self-management, are useful as protective factors from violence, especially among youth.   

This is a report by the United Nations Development Program, that provides Common standards designed and formulated to promote greater access to quality police and justice services for women and girls who have experienced gender-based or family violence. The Standards are intended to provide regional police and justice organizations with guidelines that can serve as a basis for their own approaches to addressing violence against women and girls and family violence, as well as strengthen their ability to positively influence the development and implementation of procedures followed by Caribbean States at the national level.