Highlights of ISPCAN's World Perspectives - 2016

As it has done every 2 years over the past 22 years, ISPCAN gathered information in 2015 on the state of child protection around the world. Highlights of findings from 73 countries will be presented, including laws and... [ view full abstract ]

As it has done every 2 years over the past 22 years, ISPCAN gathered information in 2015 on the state of child protection around the world. Highlights of findings from 73 countries will be presented, including laws and policies, programs and services, and child sexual exploitation. We obtained information from 13 countries in Africa, 8 in the Americas, 21 in Asia, 29 in Europe, and Australia and New Zealand and Oceania. Countries were also categorized by income level using designations by the World Bank; 36 countries were high income, 29 middle income and 8 were low income.