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This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Committee's recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
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This article describes the history and philosophy of foster care in Egypt. While journal readers will be familiar with the issues affecting their own work, they are less likely to know about fostering in other countries. This can be limiting as international comparisons can give practitioners, researchers and educators insights into their own work as well as skills to support children from different cultural backgrounds. The article shows that foster care in Egypt is not a recent development, indeed it dates back to ancient Egypt and the Egyptian kings, but the current legal…
This report from UNICEF shines light on the dangers of the Central Mediterranean Migration Route for children, and the particular vulnerability of unaccompanied migrant minors traveling along this route. The report begins with some fast facts about the route and the children who migrate unaccompanied. It then presents the findings of a needs assessment survey UNICEF’s Libya Country Office commissioned in 2016. The report shares the stories of some migrant children and describes migrants' experiences of trafficking, sexual violence, detention, smuggling, trauma and other…
The local council of Bani Walid, Libya has committed to release, rehabilitate and reintegrate children associated with armed groups.
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Objectives To examine the mental health of unaccompanied refugee minors prospectively during the asylum-seeking process, with a focus on specific stages in the asylum process, such as age assessment, placement in a supportive or non-supportive facility and final decision on the asylum applications.
Design This was a 2½ year follow-up study of unaccompanied minors (UM) seeking asylum in Norway. Data were collected within three weeks (n=138) and at 4 months (n=101), 15 months (n=84) and 26 months (n=69) after arrival.
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Dreilinden produced this working paper to improve practice in the area of LGBTI* children in care. This paper has texts in a variety of formats from around the world and contains three sections that cover research and tools; interviews; and practice examples.
In the article, “LGBTI Rights are Children’s Rights”, Eva Maria Hilgarth discusses how LGBTI rights apply to children. She looks at the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and Kristen Sandberg’s article therein and emphasizes Sandberg’s dialogue with the CRC and notes how it strengthens the position of LGBTI youth and…
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Committees' recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Committees' recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
This report examines what family means to children and adults in the following countries: Brazil, India, Guyana, South Africa, Egypt, Mexico, Russia, Kenya. The storytellers use evidence from 59 short films made using digital storytelling technique.
Through this technique, it was found that there are a range of family types, all with equal value in children’s lives. Many who made the films spent significant parts of their childhood living with extended family. Many spoke on the pain of separation.
The report notes that policies should not support one family type from another…
Organisée par le Bureau Permanent de la Haye, une formation internationale a eu lieu les 8 et 9 Décembre 2015 en Jordanie.
45 Experts de Bahreïn, Jordanie, Maroc et Tunisie ainsi que d'Allemagne, du Canada et de l'Angleterre y compris des membres du Bureau Permanent ont échangé à propos de la pertinence d'un certain nombre de conventions de la Haye concernant la région du Moyen-Orient Afrique du Nord. Peu de temps après, une formation a été donnée pour les juges en Albanie au sujet des conflits familiaux transfrontaliers.