In this position paper, the Muslim Women’s Shura Council considers whether adoption can be possible within an Islamic framework.

The paper examines elements that must be in place to ensure that foster care is effective, including legislative frameworks and a trained child welfare workforce. It consider principles for good practice in foster care, with a particular focus on examining how such principles can be applied in resource constrained settings.

The overall objective of the assignment is to support the knowledge management platforms of BCN, including the expansion and maintenance of BCN’s online resource library and portals, preparation of its newsletter, and development of a new discussion forum.

This paper, 'Children in Informal Care', was produced in response to a knowledge gap on informal care and to help determine the relevance and applicability of the 2009 Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children to informal alternative care. The authors asked the questions “what constitutes ‘informal care’?”, “what forms of informal care are there?”, “who needs informal care?”, and “can they be clearly defined?”

This report presents a unique Literature Review of international research studies about street children published during the decade from 2000 to 2010.

Report underscoring the need to examine protection in its entirety and ensure that all dimensions of the protection response are adequately supported

Press release from UNICEF and OHCHR launching a joint campaign to put an immediate end to the practice of placing young children into State-run infant homes.

Joint statement by the Consortium for Street Children to the African Committee on the Rights and Welfare of the Child on Day of African Child Theme: All Together for Street Children

Stipulates function, structure and guiding parameters for the interagency network.

PEPFAR, UNICEF and UNAIDS are pleased to invite you to participate, via webinar, in the Fifth Global Partners Forum on Children affected by HIV and AIDS that is taking place in New York on the 3rd and 4th of June