This study examined psychopathology at age 12 years in a cohort of Romanian children who had been abandoned at birth and placed into institutional care, then assigned either to be placed in foster care or to care as usual.

De nombreux enfants originaires d’États dévastés par la guerre, qui voyagent souvent seuls, fuient actuellement des abus dans leurs pays d’origine pour chercher refuge au sein de l’Union européenne, a affirmé aujourd’hui Human Rights Watch. Beaucoup d’entre eux tentent d’échapper au recrutement d’enfants soldats, aux mariages de mineurs et aux attaques menées contre des écoles, ou encore à d’autres conséquences de la guerre en Syrie et en Afghanistan. D’autres fuient les discriminations or à l’encontre des réfugiés afghans en Iran.

This paper describes the diversified approaches in Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia to end the placement of children under three in institutions and prevent the separation of children from their families.

This article describes the current strategies of the  “Building a Europe for and with Children” programme, a programme of the Council of Europe. The strategy focuses on four areas of action: promoting child-friendly services and systems; eliminating all forms of violence against children; guaranteeing the rights of children in vulnerable situations, and promoting child participation. A further standard is available on children’s rights and social services friendly to children and families for ensuring that children lacking or placed outside parental care are given adequate treatment.

The report Child Protection Index Moldova 2015: Measuring the Fulfilment of a Child’s Rights was presented at an event on 16 June 2015.

To facilitate well-informed decisions, the researchers collected and disseminated evidence from systematic reviews (SR) to local child welfare stakeholders in Norway through plain language summaries. This article describes that process.

This article describes the experiences of Inuit children from Greenland who were removed from their families and taken to Denmark in the 1950s in an effort by the Danish government to re-educate them as “Little Danes” and to “modernize” Greenland.

The current study seeks to examine the social images associated with children and youth in residential care and the respective care institutions in Portugal.

This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 

In this article, the author offers a response to the recommendations made to the government of the Czech Republic by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).