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This Evidence Brief provides an overview of the systematic review. The systematic review focuses on protection interventions for UASC in humanitarian crises in low and middle income countries or in proximate countries of asylum since 1983 and seeks to examine the impact of protection interventions on unaccompanied and separated children, during the period of separation, in humanitarian crises in low and middle income countries.
There is evidence to suggest that scale of separation in conflict is greater than the scale of separation in natural disasters. Research suggests increase in rates…
This Executive Summary provides an overview of the systematic review. The systematic review focuses on protection interventions for UASC in humanitarian crises in low and middle income countries or in proximate countries of asylum since 1983 and seeks to examine the impact of protection interventions on unaccompanied and separated children, during the period of separation, in humanitarian crises in low and middle income countries.
There is evidence to suggest that scale of separation in conflict is greater than the scale of separation in natural disasters. Research suggests increase in…
In 2010 Afrika Tikkun conducted a study in Orange Farm, Alexandra, and Diepsloot in Johannesburg as well as Mfuleni and Delft in Cape Town, South Africa to assess the needs of caregivers and families of children with disabilities. This report highlights the findings of that study, including the many complex problems and human rights violations they faced. In response, Afrika Tikkun began the Empowerment Programme. This report presents the results of the evaluation of that program.
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.
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 the Child. 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.
Three semi-structured focus group interviews were conducted with twelve schoolchildren, aged 13–15 years for the purpose of exploring the knowledge and attitudes towards disability of young people within Moldova. These interviews focussed on different aspects of disability and community integration.
The study identified three themes:
- Knowledge and understanding of disability. The young people's knowledge was limited and framed by the medical model of disability;
- Attitudes towards community integration. A bias against long-term care institutions, but…
This article discusses Bulgaria's challenges since the shut down of its crowded institutions, which housed disabled children. Over the past six years, Bulgaria has built almost 150 homes to house disabled children. The new homes while a significant improvement face staffing challenges. Workers complain of low pay. There are also still reports of forced feeding of the children within the homes.
Este informe, presenta los resultados de ese estudio, examina las condiciones en que se encuentran los niños y los adolescentes con discapacidad en relación con el ejercicio de sus derechos, y propone algunas líneas de acción estratégica para mejorar las políticas y las prácticas en dirección a la garantía y la restitución del derecho de todos los niños, las niñas y los adolescentes a crecer en un ámbito familiar y comunitario, y sin discriminación.
Su desarrollo comprendió la revisión de la bibliografía internacional y regional, una lectura exhaustiva de los informes de seguimiento del…
This document provides a formative assessment on the state of children with disabilities in Zambia.
The formative assessment aimed to answer three fundamental questions. First, can the quality of life of children with disabilities living in institutions be improved? Second, what are the conditions of children with disabilities living in community? If excellent, how can those conditions be supported and expanded? If poor, how can the quality of life of children with disabilities and their families be improved? Third, are there effective strategies that can be implemented and disseminated…