La Thaïlande maintient chaque année en détention des milliers d’enfants migrants, leur causant des dommages émotionnels et physiques, a déclaré Human Rights Watch dans un rapport. Des enfants migrants et demandeurs d’asile sont détenus de manière inutile dans des lieux de rétention sordides et des cellules de la police, en raison de leur statut en matière d’immigration ou de celui de leurs parents.
L’Ouganda ne protège pas les enfants sans domicile fixe des violences et autres abus commis par la police a déclaré Human Rights Watch. Les enfants des rues dans divers centres urbains de l'Ouganda sont exposés à la maltraitance ainsi qu'aux violences physiques et sexuelles. Les autorités nationales et locales devraient cesser d’organiser des descentes de police visant ces enfants, tenir les forces policières et d'autres individus responsables en cas de passage à tabac, et faciliter l'accès de ces enfants aux services d'éducation et de santé.
Dans le monde entier, des enfants se morfondent derrière des barreaux, parfois pendant des périodes prolongées. Ils sont exposés dans bien des cas à des brutalités et des conditions inhumaines. Le manque de données fiables et le grand nombre d’institutions concernées font que le nombre total d’enfants privés de liberté dans le monde n’est pas connu avec précision. Pour sa part, l’UNICEF estime qu’au moins un million d’enfants dans le monde sont derrière des barreaux.
L’Assemblée parlementaire prend note avec satisfaction des nombreux progrès accomplis ces dernières décennies par les Etats membres du Conseil de l’Europe en ce qui concerne les droits et le bien-être des enfants. Cela étant, dans le contexte de la mondialisation et de la crise économique actuelle, un nombre croissant d’enfants est confronté à de «nouveaux risques»: traite des enfants ou enfants abandonnés par leurs parents migrants.
Apres le secteur du handicap les travaux europeens relatifs a la desinstitutionalisation portent sur le secteur de la protection de l’enfance. Aussi, la Convention Nationale des Associations de Protection de l’Enfant (CNAPE) a souhaité apporter son expertise, défendre un certain nombre de principes et présenter des axes de travail afin que l’évolution annoncée ne soit pas préjudiciable ni pour l’enfant, ni pour sa famille. La réflexion sur la désinstitutionnalisation doit être menée dans un objectif unique : offrir à chaque enfant la meilleure réponse possible au regard de sa situation et de son intérêt supérieur.
Le présent document plaide pour un droit de l’enfant à une prise en charge de qualité compris comme un moyen pour les acteurs gouvernementaux et non gouvernementaux de penser leurs devoirs vis-à-vis des enfants privés de protection familiale ou risquant de l’être.
La Cooperation italienne et l'UNICEF ont lancé un projet dédié à la désinstitutionalisation des enfants privés de milieu familial en Tunisie. Le projet intervient dans le domaine de la protection de l'enfance, et vise à contribuer à ce que les enfants vulnérables et notamment les enfants nés hors mariage, les enfants et les adolescents en situation de danger ou handicapés puissent jouir de leurs droits et bénéficier d’un environnement familial de qualité, propice à leur garantir un bien-être et un développement harmonieux.
Le VIH/SIDA a privé de parents ou rendu vulnérables des millions d’enfants. La région la plus durement touchée est l’Afrique subsaharienne, où l’on estime à 12,3 milions le nombre d’enfants étant orphelins à cause du SIDA. La disparition des parents n’est pas la seule répercussion qu’a le VIH/SIDA sur les enfants. Parmi les autres enfants rendus vulnérables par le VIH/SIDA figurent ceux qui ont un parent malade, qui vivent dans des ménages pauvres prenant en charge des orphelins, qui sont victimes de discrimination du fait de la séropositivité d’un membre de leur famille ou qui sont eux-mêmes séropositifs. Par conséquent, les programmes ne peuvent être exclusivement destinés aux enfants orphelins à cause du SIDA mais doivent s’adresser aux communautés où le VIH/SIDA exacerbe la vulnérabilité des enfants et des adolescents.
Aujourd’hui un des domaines le plus critique, par rapport aux services à la personne, est celui des interventions auprès de la fragilité des familles avec des enfants mineurs. Les récentes études scientifiques révèlent l’urgence de réaliser des interventions de promotion des relations familiales, afin de prévenir les situations pour lesquelles il n’y a pas d’autres solutions que l’éloignement des enfants mineurs ou, quand cela s’est déjà vérifié, pour favoriser le plus possible la recomposition du noyau familial.
La question du placement en France a semblé avoir perdu de son intensité dans les années 1990 sans doute en raison de la baisse progressive du nombre de ceux-ci et des importantes réformes législatives intervenues depuis 1983. Elle est aujourd’hui à nouveau posée par des associations, des mouvements de défense des droits de l’homme et par le gouvernement.
Pour la plupart des Burundais qui ont fui la violence qui règne chez eux, le camp de Mahama au Rwanda sera leur domicile provisoire. Comme dans n'importe quel conflit, les gens se trouvent non seulement arrachés de leurs foyers, mais aussi, souvent, de leurs familles.
Depliant illustrant le protocole de référence et de prise en charge des enfants non accompagnés / séparés ou guéris d’Ebola autour du CTE de Wonkifong/Coyah.
The aim of this note is to outline some ways of engaging with community-based child protection mechanisms (CBCPMs), especially within the education sector, which apply in both urban and rural protracted refugee settings.
The study was carried out in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The purpose of this research is to utilise information collated from literature review as well as informant interviews and focus group discussions to identify good practices or help inform the development of such practices aimed at assisting street children currently residing in institutional care to return to a family-based environment.
This document summarises the key findings of the project to-date and the current status of the child care and alternative care directory. It also outlines some key activities that need to be undertaken for the MoGLSD to start to address the issues outlined within the report. The MoGLSD has carefully evaluated the baseline study and after a number of consultations wish to put forward this document as a proposal to address the serious issues of children without parental care and the growing number of children’s homes.
This article describes the Blueprints database of evidence-based programmes (EBPs) and its potential application in children's services in European countries.
This blog post by UNICEF describes how the Disability Rights Initiative-Cambodia, a joint Australian Government-United Nations program to improve quality of life for children with disability and their families, is having an impact for one family in Cambodia.
A new video describes a Mailman School-led study to assess the size of the problem. Interspersed with footage of children in informal settlements and orphanages, researchers and officials describe the growth of residential care facilities in Cambodia, many which are operated or funded by foreign charities, including religious groups.
This tooklit provides a comprehensive guide to designing safe programmes specifically for adolescent girls.
This report and summary explores the current childcare policy failures across a range of case-study countries, including Viet Nam, Gaza, Mexico, India and Ethiopia, and highlights examples of progress in countries which are successfully responding to these challenges.
As a result of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, there are now more than 12 million orphans in sub-Saharan Africa. The majority of these children have been absorbed into their extended families. A minority of AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children are living in residential care facilities.
Adolescents living in orphanages are at a disadvantage with respect to mental health. The aim of this study was to assess the distribution of psychological symptoms and their association with the level of physical activity (PA) in adolescents living in orphanages.
There are compelling reasons to believe that orphans – many millions due to the AIDS epidemic – are more likely to be sexually victimized during childhood.
This systematic review assessed the quantitative literature to determine whether orphans are more likely to experience physical and/or sexual abuse compared to non-orphans in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It also evaluated the quality of evidence and identified research gaps.
The authors of this article applied a human rights framework using the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child to understand what extent children’s basic human rights were being upheld in institutional vs. community- or family-based care settings in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya.
Since 1986, American parents have adopted over 17,300 children from Guatemala. This study assessed the health, growth, and developmental status of 103 Guatemalan adopted children (48 girls; 55 boys) after arrival in the United States. Physical evidence suggestive of prenatal alcohol exposure and adequacy of vaccinations administered were also reviewed.
This Multisectoral National Strategy for Child Protection builds on a mapping and assessment of Lesotho’s current child protection system, which drew together many stakeholders to consider how best to move forward on child protection in a coordinated and sustainable way.
Save the Children Sweden commissioned this follow-up study to explore to what extent in South Africa, African customary law and practice promotes and/or inhibits the protection of children; how the positive impacts can be harnessed for the greater protection of more children; how the negative impacts can be mitigated; and finally how and who should be at the helm of any necessary developments of African customary law.
This document presents the Kingdom of Lesotho's National Multisectoral Child Protection Strategy 2014–2018 and a Costed Plan of Action for 2014-2016. The document is a more detailed operational document, setting out a road map for actions from July 2014 through to March 2017.
The Children Act, Chapter 141 is a Kenyan law that addresses provision for parental responsibility, fostering, adoption, custody, maintenance, guardianship, care and protection of children; provision for the administration of children’s institutions; and giving effect to the principles
This training manual has been developed with the aim of enhancing the capacity of Charitable Children Institutions (CCIs) in providing services to children under their care.
This animated video describes Indonesia's Families First Signature Program which began in 2005. The goal of Families First is to ensure that every child in Indonesia has a safe, family environment, recognizing that family-based care is best for child development. The video describes how the Signature Program has helped shift care away from institutions towards family-based care.
Child Trends recently released three sets of child welfare fact sheets detailing child maltreatment, foster care, and adoption statistics from the United States for federal fiscal year (FFY) 2013. Each set of 52 fact sheets uses state and national data to tell a story about the U.S.'s most vulnerable children and youth, a story that varies dramatically by state.
The objective of the project is to reduce the numbers of unaccompanied children who go missing. This project addresses how the issue of the disappearance of an unaccompanied child is tackled in different Member States and promotes promising strategies and behaviours related to the prevention and response to disappearances.
This brief is part of the Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign and is based on the proposal made to the Bulgarian Government by the Coalition ‘Childhood 2025’ to update the structure and content of the updated Action Plan.
This report and research conducted by SOS Children’s Villages reviews alternative care arrangements in Tanzania.
The Practical Guide of the Professional Supervision Mechanism in Social Assistance was developed in cooperation with the Ministry of Social Protection, Family and Child (Moldova), with the technical support of the "Support in the Delivery of Efficient and Sustainable Social Assista
Decision No. 1361 on the approval of the Framework Regulations on the Foster Care Service was enacted by the Government of the Republic of Moldova on December 21, 2007 in order to implement the Law on social assistance (No 547-XV as of December 25, 2003) as well as to achieve the National Strategy and Action Plan on the Reform of the Residential Childcare System for 2007-2012, approved by Government Decision No 784, as of July 9, 2007.
Republic of Moldova, Parliament, Law No. 123 on Social Services entered into force 3 March 2011.
On 31 October 2007, the Government of the Republic of Moldova issued Decision No. 1177 on the setting up of the Commission for the Protection of the Child in Difficulty and Approval of the Framework Regulations on the activity of the Commission.
This document, entitled "The Mechanism of Professional Supervision in Social Assistance", was approved by Order of the Minister of Social Protection, Family and Child (Moldova) on 31 December 2008.
This "Practical Guide: System for Prevention of Child Separation from the Family" was developed in cooperation with the Ministry of Social Protection, Family and Child with technical support from the "Support to the Delivery of Efficient and Sustainable Social Assistance Services” project implemented by OPM/EveryChild Moldova, funded by DFID/SIDA.
This annex contains the Moldova government's "Minimum Standards of Quality for the Functioning of Foster Care." This document addresses compulsory norms, existing at national level, that guarantees a minimum level of quality in the process of foster care service delivery.
Law No. 140 on the special protection of children at risk and of children separated from their parents entered into force on 1 January 2014.
This report shares highlights and lessons learned from PAN's work on family strengthening during the year 2015.
Work is important for promoting social inclusion, especially for marginalised or economically vulnerable populations. There is also evidence that work is associated with stability and social integration for young people who have left care.
Despite the development of alternative forms of care, international and domestic pressures for change, and over 20 years of efforts at deinstitutionalization, the Czech Republic has one of the highest rates of institutionalization of children in Europe.
This strategy explains how The Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children plans to prevent and respond to violence against children over the next five years. It will provide a platform to accelerate efforts to make girls and boys safe in the future, with the aim of delivering targets to end all forms of violence against children by 2030.
