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This report from SOS Children’s Villages and the University of Bedfordshire provides reviews and assessments of the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children in 21 countries around the world. The report is aimed at enhancing knowledge around violence against children in alternative care (especially what makes children vulnerable and what puts them at risk) and providing policymakers and practitioners insight into the challenges of protecting children from violence as well as recommendations for change.
The report offers several key findings from an extensive…
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as part of its examination of Paraguay's initial report adopted by the Committee at its ninth session, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
1 in 10 children worldwide lives in the care of family members or friends who are not their birth parents. Yet in many countries, kinship care receives no official acknowledgement, leaving caregivers without vital support and potentially putting children at risk.
Join this online event to learn what kinship care looks like in different contexts and why recognising it is so important. Participants will hear from frontline practitioners in Egypt, Ethiopia and Paraguay about the different ways that kinship care is used to reintegrate children from institutional care and life on the…
Paraguay Protege Familias (PPF) is a volunteer movement (led by a group of children's homes, foster care agencies and other organizations, churches and pastoral networks, professionals, and business leaders) that seeks to support families and ensure that all children that cannot remain with their birth families are placed in the care of safe and loving families. This is achieved by mobilizing every segment of society, along with connecting with decision-makers and those who work directly with Paraguay's vulnerable children and families. Among others, PPF works very closely with government, as…
ENFOQUE Niñez (FOCUS Childhood) is a Paraguayan civil society organization which began in 2005 with the mission of providing a concrete response to the protection of children and adolescents separated from their families by situations of social difficulty, respecting their superior interest in living in a family environment that promotes their integral development.
Enfoque Niñez is a member of Family for Every Child
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En el año 2005, en la I RAADH se aprobó la Iniciativa Niñ@Sur cuya meta general es articular los esfuerzos nacionales y promover acuerdos regionales orientados al cumplimiento de los instrumentos internacionales de derechos humanos universales y regionales como piso mínimo de derechos humanos de niños, niñas y adolescentes. En este sentido, uno de los ejes planteados es el fortalecimiento de los sistemas de protección de derechos humanos de niños, niñas y adolescentes.
The Paraguayan Foster Care Network is made up of civil society organizations: NGOs Corazones por la Infancia and Enfoque Niñez, and the childhood government authority, represented by the “Center of Adoptions” of the Paraguayan childhood governmental body to work towards the fulfillment of de-institutionalization processes in Paraguay.