Manifesto For Ethical Intercountry Adoption

International Social Service (ISS)

The International Social Service (ISS) has launched its Manifesto For Ethical Intercountry Adoption. The Manifesto seeks to promote ethical practices by all adoption stakeholders to better protect children, whether in the receiving country or country of origin, including inter alia, biological parents, adoptive parents, professionals and government representatives.

Bottom-up approaches to strengthening child protection systems: Placing children, families, and communities at the center

Michael G. Wessells - Child Abuse & Neglect

This article examines an alternative approach to child protection which consists of community-driven, bottom-up work that enables nonformal–formal collaboration and alignment, greater use of formal services, internally driven social change, and high levels of community ownership. The article offers a case example of a community-driven program in Sierra Leone.

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Migrant Children and Adolescents Returned: An Analysis of the Contexts and Responses of the Services and Policies of Protection in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico (Spanish)

RELAF, Save the Children, and UNICEF

Esta evaluación rápida, conducida por RELAF in colaboración con Save the Children y UNICEF, revisa las políticas públicas y servicios desarrollados por instituciones gubernamentales y no-gubernamentales perteneciendo al "Sistema de Protección Integral" para hacer frente a las cuestiones problemáticas que afectan los niños migrantes y sus familias en el Triángulo del Norte (El Salvador, Guatemala, y Honduras) y México. 

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Manual of International Standards of Human Rights Applicable to Child and Adolescent Migrants (Spanish)

Alberto Celesia, Alejandro Morlachetti, Matilde Luna - RELAF, Save the Children, and UNICEF

Este informe está dirigido a sintetizar conceptos fundamentales y normas relativos a la protección de los derechos de los niños migrantes y adolescentes en el Triángulo Norte de Centroamérica.

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Research, Practice, and Policy Perspectives on Issues of Children without Permanent Parental Care

Robert B. McCall - Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development

This chapter presents conclusions, trends, conceptual analyses, hypotheses, and speculations regarding some fundamental issues of research, practice, and policy that are largely unsettled or controversial, regarding children without permanent parental care.

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