Interactive Workshop: Collecting Data on Children in Residential Care
In this workshop panelists explored UNICEF's Data and Analytics Section's protocols and tools for gathering data on children in residential care.
A Lawmaker’s Guide to Stopping Orphanage Trafficking
This briefing book, prepared by the Inter-Parliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking, serves as a practical guide for legislators on how to--through a combination of global partnerships and domestic action--work together to educate, advocate and legislate to end orphanage trafficking.
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Поддержать целостность семей в Центральной Азии
Каждый ребенок имеет право расти в способствующей развитию семейной среде.
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Keeping Families Together in Central Asia
This UNICEF policy brief finds that an estimated 203 children for every 100,000 children live in residential care across Central Asia – almost double the global average of 105 per 100,000. In this brief, UNICEF proposes seven policy recommendations to facilitate the closure of large-scale institutions and transition to family-based alternatives to institutional care in Central Asia.
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When Numbers Demand Action: Confronting the Global Scale of Sexual Violence Against Children
This UNICEF publication presents the first-ever global and regional estimates of sexual violence against children. It narrates through numbers the tragic reality of sexual violence, amplifying victims’ voices.
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Case Management for Preventing Family Separation
This webinar looked at case management for preventing family separation in Kenya, exploring the role that case management can play in prevention and the tools and strategies for effective case management with vulnerable families.
Parent-Child Border Separation and the Road to Repair: Addressing a Global Refugee Phenomenon
This paper addresses the consequences of child-parent separation at the U.S. southern border and offers suggestions for supporting these families including child-parent psychotherapy.
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Who is a Minor? Age Assessments of Refugees In Germany and the Classificatory Multiplicity of the State
This study examined the categories that states use to classify and govern migrants. Unaccompanied minors and adult asylum seekers are treated very differently regarding their asylum cases and residence permits. The study focused on Germany, where the courts and youth welfare offices commission age assessments to decide whether young migrants will be considered minors or adults. These assessments are carried out by forensic medical examiners and social workers, respectively, who work with very different understandings of what constitutes age.
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Mental and Neurodevelopmental Health Needs of Aboriginal Children With Experience of Out-of-Home Care: A Western Australian Data-Linkage Study
The objective of this study was to identify additional mental and neurodevelopmental health needs of Aboriginal children born in Western Australia, who are placed in out-of-home care (OOHC), relative to Aboriginal children born in Western Australia who were not placed.
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Country on the Move: Comparing the Impacts of Service Provision During the Waves of Displacement Before and After Full-Scale Aggression Against Ukraine
This study explores Ukrainian responses to internally displaced people during the first and second waves of war-induced displacement and internal migration in Ukraine, which took place after the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and after the full-scale invasion of 2022. It also addresses the unique challenges faced by Ukrainian social work professionals in supporting displaced people, service people and their families, disabled veterans, and orphaned children as the war continues and also for resettlement in a post-war context.
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