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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights recently published a practical guide on how to protect family unity and reunification more effectively in human mobility and mixed movement contexts during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The guide recommends a series of measures aimed at States, which focus on protecting family unity, preventing separation, and ensuring reunification in the context of human mobility, including for unaccompanied or separated children and adolescents, who require international protection or who leave their homes in search of better opportunities or family…
la Comisión Interamericana presenta la guía ¿Cómo hacer más efectiva la protección a la unidad familiar y reunificar a la familia en los procedimientos migratorios y de protección en contexto de pandemia? en la que se analizan los estándares interamericanos aplicables a la luz de las obligaciones internacionales de los Estados y propone recomendaciones para garantizar la unidad familiar y la reunificación familiar así como prevenir los riesgos de separación y minimizar los impactos en los casos de separación familiar. Asimismo, la implementación de las garantías de la reunificación familiar…
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has issued, in collaboration with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), a practical guide on how to protect family unity and reunification more effectively in human mobility and mixed movement contexts during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This publication is part of a series of guides issued by the IACHR to address the impact of the pandemic on human rights.
It analyzes the applicable inter-American standards in light of states’ international obligations and proposes recommendations to guarantee family unity and family…
Humanitarian Action is at the core of UNICEF’s mandate to realize the rights of every child. This edition of Humanitarian Action for Children – UNICEF’s annual humanitarian fundraising appeal – describes the ongoing crises affecting children on the move, including from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and people affected by COVID-19; the strategies that UNICEF is using to respond to these situations; and the donor support that is essential in this response.
This report examines the two-sided dilemma for Venezuelan children during the COVID-19 pandemic: 1) the dire economic situation they faced prior to the declaration of the Coronavirus pandemic and 2) the exacerbating factors that have deepened their vulnerability since the pandemic began. World Vision’s intent is to equip leaders and decision makers with insights and recommendations for actions that will comprehensively prevent and address children’s protection concerns.
This report consolidates findings from a rapid participatory consultation with: (1) migrant girls in the Northeastern Colombia border region, (2) front-line practitioners providing services to migrant children and their families, and (3) Save the Children teams in Colombia.
This report is part of a global research series on girls on the move.
El presente estudio aborda la realidad del impacto de la migración forzosa en niños, niñas y adolescentes venezolanos. A partir de ello, se realizó una misión en Arauca para documentar el impacto de la migración en esta zona fronteriza y su relación con el conflicto armado en Colombia. Así mismo, se tomó la decisión de replicar los datos nacionales obtenidos junto a Datanálisis, los cuales fueron obtenidos debido a la relevancia que estos han tenido para permitir el monitoreo del impacto que posee la migración en los niños, niñas y adolescentes. Adicionalmente se complementa dicha información…
Meant to highlight the maxim that every child deserves the best that we all have to give; this book provides a review of progress made since The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It contains reports from 21 countries on the status of the rights of the child. The reporting countries are: Australia, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Japan, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Solomon Islands, Spain, the Netherlands, the UK, the USA, Uzbekistan and Venezuela. There are no reports from Africa.
At the time of publication, 195 countries had…
The Committee considered the combined third to fifth periodic reports of Venezuela (CRC/C/VEN/3-5) at its 1903rd and 1904th meetings (see CRC/C/SR. 1903 and 1904), held on 1 and 2 September 2014, and adopted, at its 1929th meeting, held on 19 September 2014, the following concluding observations.
This report from SOS Children’s Villages and the University of Bedfordshire provides reviews and assessments of the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children in 21 countries around the world. The report is aimed at enhancing knowledge around violence against children in alternative care (especially what makes children vulnerable and what puts them at risk) and providing policymakers and practitioners insight into the challenges of protecting children from violence as well as recommendations for change.
The report offers several key findings from an extensive…