This Research Handbook is an innovative tool which will be of use not only for students and scholars interested in migration displacement, immigration, and human rights, but also for policymakers and others actively engaged in the migrant and refugee rights advocacy community.

The INSPIRE Working Group, an informal network of some 100 agencies committed to implementing INSPIRE-related programmes, has also launched a call for proposals to support INSPIRE awareness-raising and engagement activities in low- and middle-income countries.

This chapter elaborates on the specifics of these two limbs of Article 37 Convention on the Rights of the Child, the core human rights provision for the protection of children deprived of liberty.

"While there's little doubt, a traveler who signs up to help at an orphanage is intending to help the community and children, in reality, they could be helping an industry which takes advantage of the vulnerable," says this article from World Nomads.

This post from World Vision marks the launch of the new ‘Civil Society Compact' (CSO Compact), which "sets out a pathway for change to help eliminate orphanages worldwide."

The authors of this paper aimed to examine the available evidence on the impact of overseas parental migration on healthcare seeking for common childhood illnesses and the nutritional status of children left-behind under five years of age.

Nationally representative, population-based data from rounds four and five of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and four to eight of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) from 61 low- and middle-income countries were used to estimate prevalence and socio-economic factors associated with leaving children under five years old home alone or under the care of another child younger than 10 years of age.

The aim of this training package is to increase case management supervisors’ confidence, capacity and support to caseworkers to provide safe, ethical and competent case management services to vulnerable children and their families.

INSPIRE would like to ask you to send in your nominations for the Advisory and Operational Support Team members.

In this blog post, Martin Punaks of Lumos explains some of the implications of the recent US Government Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report's recognition of orphanages as "a destination point for trafficked children, which historically has never been acknowledged before."