This guidance note presents some tips for UNICEF country offices and partners on key considerations when planning to engage with children and adults with disabilities for COVID-19 response.

In this Guiding Note, the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) expresses its grave concern on the ongoing global outbreak of COVID-19 virus and strongly recommends Members States of the African Union integrate child protection measures in their responses to the global pandemic of COVID-19.

This paper utilises data generated through an ‘empowerment group’ for care‐experienced young people; it illustrates how an ecological understanding of agency, as a heuristic, might further understanding of the lives of care‐experienced young people.

This systematic review aimed to explore if and how the voices of young people in out-of-home care (OoHC) are represented in research examining their health.

This webinar provides an overview of the issue of nurturing care during the COVID-19 pandemic, with lessons learned from past emergency contexts, current data on the prevalence of violence against children, presentation of guides and strategies to promote the protection of children and country presentations on strategies being currently implemented. 

This note aims to provide detaining authorities with key information and steps to respond to COVID-19.

In this joint statement, 21 global leaders in child protection call for an urgent, united effort to address violence against children as part of the broader response to COVID-19.

This webinar will provide an overview of the issue, with lessons learned from past emergency contexts, current data on the prevalence of violence against children, presentation of guides and strategies to promote the protection of children and country presentations on strategies being currently implemented. 

This virtual event will take place in lieu of the parallel event planned for the 64th Commission on the Status of Women “Bringing the Voices of Women and Girls with Disabilities to CSW64” and will be accompanied by a dedicated communications strategy.

This joint note is aimed at providing preliminary guidance to national and local authorities, school administrators and staff and implementing partners on how to take short-term measures to support, transform or adapt school feeding programmes in their efforts to safeguard the food security and nutritional status of school-aged children during the COVID-19 pandemic.