The Protection of Unaccompanied Migrant Minors Under International Human Rights Law: Revisiting Old Concepts and Confronting New Challenges in Modern Migrant Flows

Eirini Papoutsi - American University International Law Review

Considering the challenges modern migration crisis has posed on both a practical and theoretical basis, this article takes a thorough look at the protection of unaccompanied minors under international human rights law with the aim to present the main issues that need to be revisited and the areas that require further development.

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Realizing One Integrated System of Care for Children

Ron Powell, Elizabeth Estes, Alex Briscoe - Policy Analysis for California Education

This brief identifies the steps necessary to realize an integrated system of care, reviews two current approaches, and makes recommendations—including specifying policy reforms that would promote interagency collaboration, integration, service delivery, and improved outcomes for California’s children, both with and without disabilities.

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“You Will Never See Your Child Again:” The Persistent Psychological Effects of Family Separation

Hajar Habbach, Kathryn Hampton, and Ranit Mishori - Physicians for Human Rights

This report from Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) presents findings from an investigation based on psychological evaluations of asylum-seeking parents and children who were separated by the U.S. government in 2018. The investigation found pervasive symptoms and behaviors consistent with trauma, particularly the trauma of family separation.

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Linking children's social care data to information about their care proceedings to understand the use of care proceedings and their effects on parents, children and local authorities

Judith Masson, Ludivine Garside, Sean Jenney - Child & Family Social Work

This paper explores the potential of data linkage to contribute to understanding interactions between care proceedings and care demand, the examination of changes in practice through the analysis of cohorts of children in the care system, or receiving services, and the provision of feedback to those working in the family justice system on the outcomes of care proceedings for children in the UK.

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Sexual Exploitation of Children in Nepal: Briefing Paper

ECPAT International

This briefing paper has been compiled using information included in the Out of the Shadows Index - which measures a country’s response to child sexual exploitation and abuse - and the ECPAT Country Overview for Nepal. The brief highlights the risk of sexual exploitation resulting from voluntourism practices, including volunteering in or visiting orphanages.

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Children’s participation: A new role for children in the field of child maltreatment

Hanita Kosher & Asher Ben-Arieh - Child Abuse & Neglect

This article discusses the interaction between protection of maltreated children and their participation. Five aspects of child participation in the field of child maltreatment will be presented: children's participation in the definition of child maltreatment phenomena; children's participation in measuring the prevalence of child maltreatment; children's participation in clinical assessments; children's participation in in the decision-making process in child protection system; and children's participation in the efforts to prevent child maltreatment.

Mid-level CPIE Staff Capacity Gap Analysis in the West and Central Africa Region (including Mauritania)

Serena Zanella & Manuela De Gaspari - Save the Children

The child protection in emergencies (CPiE) capacity gaps analysis (CGA) in the West and Central Africa (plus Mauritania) region, targeting CPiE practitioners with 3-5 years of professional experience, aimed to collect and provide information on (1) identified key CPiE capacity gaps and (2) existing and available capacity building initiatives.

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