Research programme

Children and care

• Adoption and alternative care
  

Children and justice including in armed conflict

• Children and transitional justice
  

Implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child

• Implementation of CRC at the local level: Child Friendly Cities
  
• Independent human rights institutions for children
  
• Study on child trafficking in the Nordic countries
  

Understanding violence, abuse and exploitation for prevention and protection

• Research on sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism
  
• Sexual abuse and exploitation of children through the Internet and other information and communication technologies
  
• Social norms, harmful practices and behavioural change
  

Resources and policies for children

• Governance and financing of early childhood development services
  
• The visibility of child rights in Official Development Assistance
  

Understanding child poverty and well-being

• Research on the impact of economic crisis on child poverty and well-being and policy responses in low income countries
  
• The children left behind: a league table of inequality in child well-being