Elisabet Purve-Jorendal was born in India and given away for adoption in 1973 when she was less than six months old. A Swedish couple adopted her when she was two-and-a-half years old. Forty-two years later, she tracked down her biological mother.

A woman flew from Istanbul to Paris with an infant girl hidden inside her hand luggage, Air France has said.

Opening Doors for Europe’s Children held a campaign roundtable on migrant children at the Committee of the Regions in Brussels on 1 March 2016. The conclusion from this event is that “migrant and refugee children have the same rights as other children, and their institutionalisation is incompatible with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).” 

Council of Europe Secretary General Jagland sent a letter to Heads of Government of all 47 states of the Council of Europe to urge them to better ensure the safety and proper treatment of asylum-seeking and refugee children entering Europe. He also outlined a list of priority measures. 

Eurochild will host the Opening Doors Phase II Kickoff Meeting in Brussels from 2-3 March 2016.

In this report, Lazarenko notes that adolescents between ages 16 to 18 who attend vocational educational institutions in conflict-affected areas are at a particularly high risk of involvement in armed forces/groups or sexual exploitation.

This article draws on Giorgio Agamben's (1995) theory of 'bare life' to examine the identity and the political positioning of child welfare-involved mothers in contemporary Western child protection systems to complement the primary focus on their children.

In this episode of “File on 4” from BBC Radio, Jane Deith investigates the practice of “Special Guardianship” orders in the UK, orders that grant legal guardianship of children to relatives or others who come forward to care for children when their parents can’t.

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

SOS Villages d’Enfants France et la CNAPE, en partenariat avec le CNFPT – INSET d’Angers et le Défenseur des droits, organisent 5 formations en mars et juin 2016 sur le thème : « Les droits de l’enfant accueilli en protection de l’enfance : de la théorie à la pratique! », dans le cadre de la mise en oeuvre du projet européen Former les professionnels de la prise en charge alternative