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Ce manuel En marche vers la mise en œuvre des Lignes Directrices été élaboré pour nous inciter à progresser davantage encore vers l’incorporation des droits de l’enfant au domaine de la protection de remplacement. Il vise à soutenir la mise en œuvre des Lignes directrices en établissant des liens solides entre la politique nationale, la pratique directe et les Lignes directrices elles-mêmes. Le projet en marche vers la mise en oeuvre des Lignes Directrices reflète le message central véhiculé par les Lignes directrices, à savoir l’importance de ne jamais placer les enfants…
La última década ha sido el testigo de avances importantes hacia el objetivo de poner a los derechos de los niños al centro del acogimiento alternativo. Desde la concepción inicial hasta el desarrollo y la aprobación de las Directrices sobre las modalidades alternativas de cuidado de los niños (las Directrices) por parte de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas (AGNU) en su resolución A/RES/64/142, contamos ahora con un marco político más coherente. En la actualidad, las Directrices moldean la forma en la que los encargados de elaborar políticas, los tomadores de decisiones y los…
This paper highlights the importance of promoting active fatherhood in achieving Save the Children’s goals. The paper suggests that engaging fathers in caregiving and building stronger relationships with their children can help to better protect and meet the needs of children, and that Save the Children can play a unique role in emerging international efforts to engage fathers. The document is organized into four parts: (1) Why father-inclusive work is important to Save the Children: the evidence and rationale; (2) How Save the Children is meeting various challenges in this aspect of its work…
The Future of Children, a collaboration of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Brookings Institute, has launched a new project entitled “The Child & Family Blog.” The Future of Children collaborates with the University of Cambridge Applied Developmental Psychology Group in England and the Jacobs Foundation in Switzerland to produce this blog, which publishes articles in multiple languages. The blog brings together experts in child wellbeing and protection from around the world and is intended to serve as an…
An Act in the United Kingdom to make provision about children, families,and people with special educational needs or disabilities; to make provision about the right to request flexible working; and for connected purposes.
This report from Better Care Network is a collection of care-relevant data and demographic information on Rwanda from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program. The key data highlighted include: the prevalence of orphanhood nationwide (including the percentage of children who have lost parent as well as the percentage who have lost two parents), the percentage of children living with both parents nationwide, as well as demogrpahic information for particular regions within Rwanda, and more.
Presentation by Linda Richter at the CCABA & IAS for the Meeting on Children and Especially Marginalized Populations on the 10-11th February 2010 in Geneva.
Retrak is a faith-based non-governmental organisation working with orphans and vulnerable children in Ethiopia and other countries. Retrak uses the contents of key international legal frameworks such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) to help inform their work with children. Utilising the International Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children as a guiding framework as well as the growing body of evidence showing negative effects of institutional care on children’s development…
Unaccompanied asylum seeking children and child victims of human trafficking are some of the most vulnerable children in the UK. Because of the circumstances they have faced, unaccompanied and trafficked children often have complex needs in addition to those faced by looked after children more generally and it is the duty of the local authority providing for their care to protect and support these highly vulnerable children.
This guidance sets out the steps local authorities should take to plan for the provision of support for looked after children who are unaccompanied asylum seeking…
Executive Summary
Homebound girls are girls under the age of eighteen who withdraw, or are withdrawn, from school and spend their days as domestic laborers in their house. The issues surrounding them are multi-faceted. Homebound girls are denied their constitutional right to education and are potentially involved in exploitive child labor. In doing so, they are also denied their right to social integration and psychological development as a result of their domestic confinement.
The purpose of this qualitative research was twofold: the first was to explore the phenomenon of homebound…