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The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have predicted that the social and economic effects of the ongoing pandemic will have a significant impact on the well-being of families with children and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Even before the COVID-19 crisis, children and adolescents were already a highly vulnerable population group, suffering a higher incidence of poverty than other age groups and affected by numerous inequalities in various dimensions. Not only does the current emergency threaten…
This synthesis report contains findings from a study that conducted research in six South and Central American, Asian and African countries for the purpose of gaining understanding of the nature, extent, and scope of institutionalization and the feasibility of deinstitutionlisation.
The report found that children were placed in care due to poverty; education; orphanhood; HIV/AIDS; migration; discrimination; abuse, neglect, and exploitation; active recruitment of children into residential care; disability. These children are being placed in informal and formal family-based care…
This report is published in light of the recent “large-scale flight of unaccompanied children from Central America” to the United States, which reached its peak in the summer of 2014. The report evolved out of, and is informed by, a series of three “Roundtable” meetings convened by Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) in 2014 to consider current and ideal practice with unaccompanied children in the US.
The report presents policy and practice recommendations for the care and protection of unaccompanied children, based on the wisdom and learning shared by the participants in these…