The global challenge of the neglect of children
This analysis assessed the current state of child neglect through much of the world, including its prevalence and efforts to address it.
Effectiveness of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in realization of the right to a remedy for Child victims of violence in Africa
The objective of this article is to provide evidence of the positive impact of the CRC on the right to a remedy for child victims of violence in selected African states, while highlighting existing gaps.
Finding The Way Home
The Finding the Way Home documentary highlights the painful realities of the eight million children living in orphanages and other institutions around the world, telling the stories of six children in Brazil, Bulgaria, Haiti, Nepal, India and Moldova who have found their way into the care of loving families after spending periods of their lives in an institution.
Case Management: Supervision and Coaching Lessons Learned Report
The Case Management Task Force (CMTF) of the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action commissioned this project to gather and draft key lessons learned on the Case Management Supervision and Coaching initiative. Key questions that the Task Force wanted to address included feedback on the interagency country collaboration, the effectiveness of the localization approach, the successes and challenges of roll-outs in the eight participating countries, and the impact on case management teams’ supervision practices.
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Pathways of resilience for children facing socio-economic adversities: Experiences from Future Families’ OVC Programmes in South Africa
This qualitative, phenomenological study explores experiences of resilience among OVC benefiting from programmes implemented by Future Families (a non-profit organisation) in the Gauteng Province of South Africa.
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Unaccompanied Migrant Minors at the Frontier of Human Rights. The Spanish Case
This article elaborates on provisions concerning the international protection system for minor migrants. It examines entry strategies put into place by young migrants facing the Spanish migration system.
India's Children Continue to Challenge our Conscience
This report, which is also the fifth in the series, reflects on how children and the realisation of their rights continue to challenge our conscience even today.
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Exploiting Administrative Data to Understand the Mental Health of Children Known to Social Services
The aim of this study is to examine mental ill-health amongst children known to social services based on care exposure including those who remain at home, those placed in foster care, kinship care or institutional care and the general population not known to social services.
Dilemmas and Contradictions in Hearing Children in Care Proceedings: Conceptions of Children’s Views in an Indirect Participation Arrangement
The article is based on interviews with 22 children’s spokespersons in the Norwegian arrangement for indirect participation in care proceedings, and presents analyses of the spokespersons’ experiences of contradictions and dilemmas in their practices.
Exploring the families of origin of LGBTQ former foster youth and their trajectories throughout care
Exploring the families of origin of LGBTQ former foster youth and their trajectories throughout care
Theoretically informed by intersectionality, queer, and feminist theories, the purpose of this community based qualitative research study was to gain a nuanced understanding of the experiences of 25 diverse LGBTQ former foster youth before, during, and after being in foster care.