This presentation, delivered at an Alternative Care Workshop in Bangkok in November 2005, provides an outline of alternative care in Laos.

This presentation provides an overview of the situation in Indonesia for children without parental care in a post-tsunami context and the alternative care system in the country.

This presentation from UNICEF provides an overview of the situation in Cambodia, particulary for children without parental care, and the alternative care system in the country.

This presentation from UNICEF provides an overview of the situation in Myanmar, particulary for children without parental care, and the alternative care system, or lack thereof, in the country.

This presentation includes the objectives and agenda from an Alternative Care Workshop held in Bangkok in November 2005 to present findings from a study on alternative care choices for children affected by the Tsunami in South East Asia and to share experiences and best practices related to children's care.

This report describes the findings of a two-year investigation in Turkey by Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) and exposes the human rights abuses perpetrated against children and adults with mental disabilities. Locked away and out of public view, people with psychiatric disorders as well as people with intellectual disabilities are subjected to treatment practices that are tantamount to torture. Inhuman and degrading conditions of confinement are widespread throughout the Turkish mental health system. 

This report reviews the faltering progress made in childcare reform across Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union over the 15 years since the ‘orphanages’ of Romania were revealed to the world.

A comprehensive guide to conducting medical examinations, particularly age determination tests, in medico-legal cases of child victims of trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.

Operational standards and guidance for residential care facilities for girls and women survivors of trafficking and abuse. It covers administration and staff, confidentiality, care planning, responding to immediate and longer term support needs, psychosocial care, life skills and reintegration activities.

A comprehensive guide to the rescue, rehabilitation and reintegration of child victims of trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.