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Judge Raul Pangalangan International Criminal Court Judge (2015 – 2021)
Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, CHIP President, discusses the measures in place to ensure that the many children that crossed the Polish/Ukraine border alone travelled with identity documents that would allow them to access child protection measures as they proceed on their journey.
This report published by the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) documents the relocation by Russia of at least 6,000 children from Ukraine to a network of re-education and adoption facilities in Russia-occupied Crimea and mainland Russia.
The researcher identified 43 facilities involved in holding children from Ukraine since Russia’s 24 February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.The majority are recreational camps where children are taken for ostensible vacations, while others are facilities used to house children put up for foster care or adoption in Russia. These…
The violent war in Ukraine is threatening the safety and security of millions of people. The situation is quickly becoming the largest humanitarian crisis in Europe since World War II. As of 27 March 2022, around 3.9 million refugees had crossed from Ukraine to some seven neighbouring countries. As many as nine in 10 of those fleeing the country are estimated to be women and children.
The International Data Alliance for Children on the Move (IDAC) held this webinar April 11, 2022, to discuss the need for concrete data and information crucially needed to support affected…
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This article is written as part of the FORUM project (FOR Unaccompanied Minors: transfer of knowledge for professionals to increase foster care), an EU funded project which sought to enhance the capacity of professionals to provide quality foster care for unaccompanied migrant children, primarily through the transfer of knowledge. The article aims to contribute to this transfer of knowledge by bringing together literature which is of relevance to professionals developing or enhancing foster care services for unaccompanied migrant children (such as social workers), other…
The notion of “unaccompanied and separated children” was introduced by the UN Convention on the rights of the child. It is widely used by both international human rights community and governmental bodies of various countries in regulation of treatment of the specific vulnerable group of children. The notion, which initially aimed to address specific needs of children-refugees, gradually evaluated and presently refers to children outside of country of their origin who are not being cared for by a responsible adult or who are with family members that are not…
From Intercountry Adoption to Global Surrogacy: A Human Rights History and New Fertility Frontiers tackles the constantly changing landscape of intercountry adoption. Extracting on chronologic data, this book discusses the politics and practice of intercountry adoption starting with the state of international adoption to in the 1950s continuing to present-day adoption practice and protections. Chapters include: 1) Rescue, refugees, orphans and restitution; 2) The politics of adoption from Romania to Russia and what we know about children languishing in residential care…
The aim of this article is to study the situation on realizing children’s rights in Poland and in Russia in the context of Janusz Korczak’s principles by using the following objectives:
- Analyze the historical and pedagogical literature for the study of "children’s rights” notion;
- Describe Janusz Korczak pedagogical ideas on children’s rights;
- Reveal the realization of Korczak's humanistic ideas on Children’s rights on the example of the of Child refugees in Poland;
- Describe the situation with realizing children’s rights in Russia.
This article discusses the concept of "Unaccompanied and Separated Children" and how this concept is applied in Russian law. According to the article, "unaccompanied and separated children," lack any specific guarantees in Russia. "Unaccompanied and separated children" is a term that is not mentioned Russian law related to children or to migrants. This article states that a child separated from parents would be a child without parental care.
Children without parental care do not have the same rights afforded to "unaccompanied and separated children" as pursuant to…
BARCELONA, Spain — They file into neighboring countries by the hundreds of thousands — refugees from Ukraine clutching children in one arm, belongings in the other. And they're being heartily welcomed, by leaders of countries like Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Moldova and Romania.
But while the hospitality has been applauded, it has also highlighted stark differences in treatment given to migrants and refugees from the Middle East and Africa, particularly Syrians who came in 2015. Some of the language from these leaders has been disturbing to them, and deeply hurtful.
"These are not the…