Guidance and preconditions on use of Best Interests Determination for unaccompanied and separated children

L’enfant du placement familial grandit en terre étrangère. C’est à partir de cet « exil » et dans les allers-retours entre sa famille et sa famille d’accueil qu’il va se construire. Mais sa place n’est pas pérenne. Elle peut être fragilisée par les passages à l’acte de l’enfant.

Examines practice of using institutional care for children in poverty and recommends alternative responses to maintain families.

Dana Johnson, member of the Budpest Early Intervention Project and a speaker at the BCN-BEIP discussion day, addresses common questions concerning the adotpion of institutionalized children.

The Paris Commitments to protect children from unlawful recruitment or use by armed forces or armed groups. These principles revise and expand on the Cape Town Principles developed in 1997.

The Violence Against Children Survey (VACS) datasets provide an opportunity for researchers to conduct investigations with the rich, detailed information available in the VACS, and helps increase our understanding of and ability to prevent and respond to the epidemic of violence against girls and boys.

This study by Shihning Chou, Kevin Browne and Melanie Kirkaldy investigated whether intercountry adoption agencies on the internet upheld the principles of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC 1989) and the Hague Convention (1993).

Overview of the role of communities in identifying and protecting vulnerable children, as well as guidance for organizations on how to mobilize and support community groups.

A guide to setting up, operating and sustaining an agricultural and life skills participatory training program for orphans and vulnerable children (ages 12-18), living in situations of food insecurity.

A report that identifies gaps and provides recommendations for protecting and supporting girls living on the streets. It provides models of good practices from Ghana, Kenya and Zimbabwe.