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In February 2020 the COVID-19 virus started to spread in Europe. Since then our economies, societies, and daily lives have been turned upside down. This report reflects on the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on children. It compiles information gathered from 25 countries across Europe, and provides recommendations for improving public policies in the short and long-term to support better outcomes for children and families. The assessment is accompanied by reflections on the 2020 European Semester. This report is based on information gathered until August/September 2020, and was released…
The 2017 Whole of Syria Child Protection Needs Overview: A Compilation of Child Protection Data Collected for the 2017 Syria Humanitarian Needs Overview provides analysis of child protection needs and risks at the government level to support child protection actors in programmed development, resource mobilasation and advocacy.
Data collection and assessments were conducted through Jordan, Syria, and Turkey hubs between April and July 2016. Respondents were asked their perceptions on the reasons children are unaccompanied and separated from their usual caregivers. The reasons…
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities during the seventeenth session (20 March 2017 - 12 April 2017) of the Convention 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.
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities during the seventeenth session (20 March 2017 - 12 April 2017) of the Convention 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.
EveryChild is an international development charity working in 17 countries with a strategic focus on children without parental care. This document outlines EveryChild’s approach to the growing problem of children without parental care by defining key concepts, analysing the nature and extent of the problem, exploring factors which place children at risk of losing parental care, and examining the impact of a loss of parental care on children’s rights. It also provides principles for good practice in trying to reduce the number of children without parental…
In Azerbaijan, internally displaced persons, refugee children, and asylum seekers are forced to bear the consequences of traumatic exposure to an armed conflict.
This report is a first analytical draft of the emerging protection problems for children in Azerbaijan, as seen from the perspectives of both service providers and service beneficiaries. The objectives of this report are to draft a map of the institutional system related to child welfare, and to identify the priority protection needs of children in Azerbaijan.
The first part of the report lists the levels of governance and the…
WHAT: Standards for shelters and care providers responding to children who have been trafficked. It gives guidance and practice examples of intake procedures, interim and longer term care, support services, integration and reunification.
WHO: Policy makers, government authorities, law enforcement, social and community workers, caregivers, shelter/institution managers and staff involved in the protection and recovery of child victims of trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation and abuse.
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