UNICEF Belgrade is inviting national social policy institutes, research organizations and NGOs for developing a comprehensive study on drivers and determinants of violence against children.

UNICEF Belgrade office is seeking proposals from qualified International social policy institutes, research organizations and NGOs for developing a comprehensive study on drivers and determinants of violence against children.

In this study 59 children between 10 and 18 years placed in long term foster care in the Netherlands completed standardized questionnaires on the relationship with their parents respectively foster parents and their wellbeing.

Quasiment invisibles parmi les milliers de réfugiés qui arrivent jour après jour en Europe dans l’espoir d’y trouver la sécurité et une vie meilleure, les enfants qui arrivent sans parents ou sans aucun autre adulte pour les accompagner forment un groupe spécial – les mineurs non accompagnés – dont chaque membre a une histoire particulière et besoin d’une aide spécifique. Nous vous présentons quelques-uns d’entre eux.

This article tells the story of Yahya, a young man who escaped an abusive father in rural Gambia and underwent a harrowing journey through Northern Africa, eventually arriving in Sicily in 2013. 

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

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

En septembre, l’UNICEF a confirmé que plus d’un demi-million de personnes avaient traversé la Méditerranée vers l’Europe depuis le début de l’année 2015, les enfants représentant un cinquième de cette population en migration. Sur l’île grecque de Lesbos, deux enfants syriens arrivés avec d’autres membres de leur famille illustrent bien l’espoir et le désespoir à l’origine de ce voyage long et incertain. 

This study from Lumos provides an analysis of a survey administered to temporary foster carers in June 2015 in seven regions of the Czech Republic to address negative perceptions of foster carers and to determine whether public criticisms were founded.

To better understand the situation of children in institutional care in Greece, Roots Research Centre, the national coordinator of Opening Doors for Europe's Children, conducted the first nation-wide mapping of institutional and residential care in Greece. The study revealed "a patchwork" of public and private institutions and residential care facilities with little or no oversight of quality and no monitoring of the numbers of children and what happens to them.