Children Affected by Disabilities

It’s About Ability: Learning Guide on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
UNICEF and the Victor Pineda Foundation | Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Companion resource to It’s About Ability, designed to empower children and young people to speak out on the convention and become advocates for inclusion. View document

Its About Ability: An Explanation of the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
UNICEF and the Victor Pineda | Tuesday, March 10, 2009
This publication explains the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to children. Its main purpose is to empower children, with and without disabilities, to play their part in challenging discrimination and promoting the Convention's principles. View document

Interagency Guiding Principles on Unaccompanied and Separated Children: FRENCH VERSION
Interagency Working Group on Unaccompanied and Separated Children | Friday, February 19, 2010
The Guidelines from the IAWG provide some of the strongest direction for ensuring emergency efforts protect family unity and avoid child-family separation. Where family unity can not be preserved, these guidelines instruct on tracing and family reunification, care arrangements, durable arrangements, special issues related to refugee children, and promotion of children’s rights. View document

Persons with Disabilities and the Humanitarian Response in Haiti
Women's Refugee Commission | Friday, February 05, 2010
Key messages and guidance for action View document

How-to Guide: Inclusive Education for Children with Disabilities
Catholic Relief Services | 2007 | 573 KB
A ‘How-to’ Guide, based on the experiences of CRS/Vietnam, that provides practical strategies and steps developing countries can take to build inclusive education programmes for children with disabilities. View document

Promising Practices in Community-Based Social Services in CEE/CIS/Baltics
Rebecca T. Davis | 2005 | 458 KB
Provides a framework for analysis of community-based social welfare services and linkages with government structures. Includes analysis of alternative care provision, de-institutionalization, programming for children with disabilities, standards of care, and overall social welfare sector reform. View document

Newsletter of the European Coalition for Community Living
N/A | Thursday, March 01, 2007 | 275 KB
The third newsletter of the European Coalition for Community Living. Articles focus on good practices in providing care for children with disabilities. View document

The Child Protection System in Azerbaijan: Situation Analysis: Resources, Referral Mechanisms, Gaps and Risks Seen from a Child Rights Perspective
Cristina Roccella | 2007 | 400 KB
Analyzes emerging protection problems and priorities of children living in Azerbaijan. Drafts a map of the institutional system related to child welfare at a national level. View document

Minimum Standards for Day Care Centers for Children With Disabilities
Romania National Authority for Child Protection and Adoption | 2005 | 122 KB
Outlines minimum standards for the operation of a day care center for children with disabilities in Romania. View document

A Last Resort: A Growing Concern About Children in Residential Care
Andrew Dunn, Elizabeth Jareg, and Douglas Webb | 2003 | 98 KB
This paper outlines the International Save the Children Alliance’s position on residential care. It addresses the proliferation of residential care, its negative impact on children and the need for international attention. The paper presents the work of Save the Children and other agencies in order to highlight relevent issues and to provide a guide for those working with separated children. View document