This paper (1) examines the human rights concerns and challenges that often emerge as states respond to epidemics – with specific reference to state responses to COVID-19 – across different phases of the response, and (2) summarizes states’ human rights obligations and the key human rights laws, standards and principles that must be reflected in these responses.

In this opinion piece for ABC News, Kate van Doore describes her experience of establishing an orphanage in Nepal in 2006, to later learn that the children in the home's care had living relatives and that many had been recruited to the orphanage.

In this webinar, colleagues from WHO will introduce the guideline on improving early childhood development, discuss the relevance of the recommendations for national policy making, and engage in dialogue on how to facilitate the dissemination and uptake of the guideline in countries.

This article presents a tentative analysis of 30 years of academic research in the field of children’s rights and migration (1989–2019).

This comment piece by Charles H Zeanah and Kathryn L Humphreys accompanies a study on the number of children in institutional care around the globe, entitled 'Prevalence and number of children living in institutional care: global, regional, and country estimates,' published in the Lancet in March 2020.

The aim of this study was to estimate global-level, regional-level, and country-level numbers and percentages of children living in institutional care.

This guideline provides direction for strengthening policies and programmes to better address early childhood development.

This document summarizes key mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) considerations in relation to the COVID-19 outbreak, such as appropriate MHPSS responses, overarching principles and globally recommended activities.

This scoping review adopts a descriptive focus to compile and analyze those studies published between 2007 and 2017 that have assessed the impact of situations of vulnerability or institutionalization on linguistic and communicative development.

Children and young people are invited to apply to be part of the Child Advisory Team (CAT) or Young people’s Advisory Team (YAT) to work with the Committee on the Rights of the Child, as well as other organisers, to make key decisions about the United Nations (UN) Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) Day of General Discussion (DGD).