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The World Tourism Network on Child Protection held its 31st meeting on the occasion of ITB Berlin. The meeting was focused on the role and initiatives of the private sector to fight Child Exploitation in tourism. Awareness raising, training of staff and the implementation of measures along the whole value chain of tourism were pointed out as critical.
In this article, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee discusses the critical brain development that happens in the first year of a baby’s life, and the impact that growing up in poverty has on that cognitive development. Researchers in Philadelphia, USA studied the environments of children living in poverty and found that children who received more attention and nurturing in infancy tended to have higher IQ scores and that children who received more cognitive stimulation tended to perform better on language tasks. Furthermore, the researchers studied these children at the age of four, eight, and as…
To facilitate Barnahus and similar setups to hear about how children experience their service, PROMISE has developed a Child Participation Tool. The tool focuses on the child’s experience of Barnahus, including the travel to Barnahus, their experience in Barnahus, coming home from Barnahus and potential follow up or mid-to-long term treatment in Barnahus or by a mobile Barnahus team.
Join this webinar to walk through the tool with the author Olivia Lind Haldorsson, and to discuss with European colleagues about approaches and considerations for soliciting children’s views on their…
This webinar is being organized as part of the regional project "Building Relationships through Innovative Development of Gender-Based Violence Awareness in Europe - BRIDGE" which has the aim to strengthen the statutory response to gender-based violence (GBV) affecting children and youth on the move in EU countries.
The BRIDGE project is supported by the European Union’s Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (2014-2020) and is implemented in Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Malta and Romania.A series of webinars are being organized as part of the BRIDGE project to discuss issues of…
UNICEF is seeking a Child Protection Consultant in Germany. The purpose of the consultancy is to provide support to the Refugee and Migrant response in Germany in the area of child protection by leading a working group of the Initiative (comprised of Initiative partners and protection coordinators) in developing guidance on the implementation of Minimum Protection Standard 4 - prevention of and dealing with situations of violence and suspected violence/risk management (for information on the Standards, please see background information). This guidance will be developed in close…
After the fall of the Iron Curtain and the end of the Ceaușescu regime Fr. Georg Sporschill SJ was sent to Bucharest by his Order in 1991. There he took care of the many abandoned children on the streets and founded CONCORDIA social projects. A house on Piață Concordiei, Concordia Square, is the name given to the still young social organisation.
Over time CONCORDIA opened several houses where children grow up in family-like communities, social centres and the first training workshops for young people. Starting in 2004, family & social centres were established in several villages in the…
The IRC opened its office in Germany in August 2016. Germany has seen an unprecedented surge in the number of refugees entering the country, travelling mostly through the Balkans route. Germany allowed refugees to come to Germany freely and is promising asylum to many of those who have arrived during 2015 and 2016. The German Federal government as well as many civil society organizations and volunteer groups have, together with international NGOs, responded to the needs of refugees, setting up shelter, providing services and building capacity. However, services have limited…
Wegweiser-freiwilligenarbeit.com is the independent portal in German language for flexible and responsible volunteering abroad. They strive to make the volunteering sector better and help organisations who have a positive impact recruit more German speaking volunteers, and motivate the others to become better.
Zefie is a care-focused organisation that provides individual, tailor-made support to strengthen children and families. Their work falls into three main areas:
- Care in crisis: Zefie recruit and train foster families to provide emergency foster care placements for children. They also respond to the arrival of unaccompanied minor refugees.
- Longer-term care: Zefie have a number of houses in residential areas where teenagers live together in small groups, with a dedicated support worker. For older teenagers and young people Zefie organise flatshares and…
The research project, called Hestia after the Greek goddess of home and family, aims to discover the nature and impact of variations in child protection systems through a comparison of three different welfare states. The research will compare:
- the ways child protection measures are negotiated, legitimized and perceived
- their impact on children
- the relationship between national policy, thresholds for intervention and social justice
- the rhetoric in child protection policy and practice, locating this within the wider child welfare policy framework…