On June 17, 2009 the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva adopted by consensus a procedural resolution A/HRC/11/L.11 submitting the “Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children” to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York for consideration with a view to their adoption on the 20th anniversary of the UNCRC in November. While the latest resolution at the Human Rights Council is a major step forward, more work and lobbying needs to be undertaken in New York as well as in individual countries to promote its final adoption at the UN General Assembly. Co-convenors of the NGO working group on alternative care, ISS and SOS-Kinderdorf International developed a lobbying fact sheet that provides background information, facts regarding children without parental care, and suggested lobbying activities associated with the Guideline’s adoption.
