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Prepared for the Agenda 2030 for Children: End Violence Solutions Summit, held in Stockholm, Sweden, on 14-15 February 2018, this report tracks progress towards prohibition and elimination of corporal punishment of children in Pathfinding countries. Under the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, these countries have committed to three to five years of accelerated action towards target 16.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): “End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children.”
The Solutions Summit aims to…
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 as part of its examination of El Salvador's initial reports, 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 is aimed at synthesizing key concepts and standards regarding the protection of the rights of migrant children and adolescents in the Northern Triangle of Central America. This document outlines the main guidelines that have emerged from pieces of international legislation. Also, it proposes a group of basic guidelines that should guide both the formulation and implementation of public policies and the concrete work which takes place in institutions responsible for guaranteeing the protection of migrant children. It is hoped that this publication will result in the development of…
This report examines the policy challenge in the United States of balancing protection and immigration enforcement in the recent unaccompanied child migration “crisis” in the US. The report provides an overview of unaccompanied child migration from Central America and Mexico to the United States since 2011 and a look into enforcement and protection policies in practice, including “special rules for families and children.” The report also seeks to explain the recent surge in migration from Central America and highlights the limitations and “unintended consequences” of the US immigration policy…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
By the end of 2011, the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) began to see a steady rise in the number of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) from Central America, particularly from the Northern Triangle countries—El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala—arriving to the US-Mexico border. The number of children entering the United States from these countries more than doubled during fiscal year (FY) 2012 and continued to grow through FY 2014. In FY 2013, CBP apprehended over 35,000 children. That number almost doubled to 66,127 in FY 2014, with Central American…
Esta evaluación rápida, conducida por RELAF in colaboración con Save the Children y UNICEF, revisa las políticas públicas y servicios desarrollados por instituciones gubernamentales y no-gubernamentales perteneciendo al "Sistema de Protección Integral" para hacer frente a las cuestiones problemáticas que afectan los niños migrantes y sus familias en el Triángulo del Norte (El Salvador, Guatemala, y Honduras) y México. El informe, escrito en español, encuentra una falta de programas, servicios, y planes sostenidos y de largo plazo, diseñado para guarantizar el bienestar de los niños migrantes…
Este informe está dirigido a sintetizar conceptos fundamentales y normas relativos a la protección de los derechos de los niños migrantes y adolescentes en el Triángulo Norte de Centroamérica. Este documento resume las principales pautas que han surgido a partir de la legislación internacional. También, propone un grupo de directrices básicos que deben guiar la formulación e implementación de políticas públicas y el trabajo concreto que ocurre en instituciones responsables por guarantizar la protección de los niños migrantes. Se espera que esta publicación se traducirá en el…
This report, issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, examines the situation and needs of unaccompanied children who emigrate from Central America and Mexico to the United States, and offers recommendations based on those needs. The report also features demographic information, including the age, gender, family structure, language, education, and country/region of origin of these unaccompanied migrant children.
Four hundred and four children were interviewed in this study and asked to share their reasons for leaving their countries of origin. The most common responses…
The illegal removal of children from biological family life during conflict has a longstanding history. This research paper provides a brief overview of the Vietnam Babylift and of a more recent child abduction attempt in Chad. Then, turning to the history of child abduction and adoption history in Latin America, the paper presents the conflicts of El Salvador and Argentina and discusses ‘living disappeared’ children – those who disappear into adoption networks during war. The research explores the post-conflict social realities in both nations. The role of the social worker and specific…
Through a recent country study and their cash transfer research programme, The International Poverty Centre published The Challenges of El Salvador’s Conditional Cash Transfer Programme, Red Solidaria. The report documents the experiences in El Salvador where we see family support services and outreach incorporated in the cash transfer programme. The integrated approach of the conditional cash transfer programme combines cash transfers with co-responsibilities in health and education as well as other components. The paper documents the El Salvadoran experiences…