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The first International Conference on Sexual Abuse of the African Child will be held in Nairobi, Kenya from 24–26 September 2007. The aim of the conference is to advance knowledge regarding the various types of sexual abuse and their complexity in the cultural settings of Africa.

This Implementation Handbook offers explanation and analysis of the articles in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The aim of the handbook is to be a tool for implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and to provide additional insight and interpretation. 

Evaluates AIDS mitigation and targeting with child sensitive objectives and global guidance

Examines the work of UNICEF Sudan and its partners in addressing the issue of abandonment of babies, institutional care, and the process undertaken since 2003 to develop alternative family care programmes.

A report on residential care in South Africa in the context of AIDS and an under-resourced social welfare sector.

Josephine Morgan comes from a poor family in Liberia. Her father, hoping for a better life for his children, agreed to an offer made by the head of an orphanage to take Josephine, her sister and her young brother.

A resource site based on the first Regional Consultation on Child Care System Reform held in Sofia in early July. The consultation brought together 120 key social welfare delegates from Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, UN-administered Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Turkey.

This document offers a brief overview of the Care Reform Initiative in Ghana: “Every child deserves a family” July/Aug 2006- August 2007.

In Georgia, UNICEF and EveryChild have teamed up to place children in need of alternative care in small, supervised apartments as an alternative to orphanages.

This study aimed to gain insight into the migration experiences of children who cross international borders unaccompanied.