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This is a joint statement by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on Ukrainian children with disabilities. They express concern about the thousands of Ukrainian children with disabilities who were living in residential institutions and have been evacuated from war zones to Western Ukraine or to other countries, as well as those who have remained in unsafe areas. In particular, they draw attention to children with high support requirements who are negatively affected by institutionalization.
"We support the effort of the…
These guidelines (CRPD/C/5) complement the Committee’s General Comment No. 5 (2017) and its guidelines on the right to liberty and security of persons with disabilities (art. 14). They are intended to guide and support States parties, in their efforts to realize the right of persons with disabilities to live independently and be included in the community, and to be the basis for planning deinstitutionalization processes and prevention of institutionalization.
The guidelines draw on the experiences of persons with disabilities before and during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which…
On 7 July 2022, the Better Care Network (BCN) and Disability Rights International (DRI) organised an event with disability and child protection actors focused on the situation of children with disabilities in residential care in Ukraine (including those children who have been returned to families or evacuated from facilities since 24 February 2022). The impetus for the event came about as a result of multiple discussions with actors involved in the response who highlighted the need to identify concrete programmatic recommendations to address the current gaps, needs and challenges, the…
A framework for nurturing care
The Nurturing Care Framework provides a roadmap for action. It builds on state-of-the-art evidence about how early childhood development unfolds and how it can be improved by policies and interventions. It outlines:
- why efforts to improve health, well-being and human capital must begin in the earliest years, from pregnancy to age 3;
- the major threats to early childhood development;
- how nurturing care protects young children from the worst effects of adversity and promotes development – physical, emotional, social and…
This document includes the general comments adopted by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on Article 19 of the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD): the right to live independently and being included in the community.
Within General Comment No. 5, the Committee explicitly states that children have the right to grow up in a family and that institutions, regardless of size or quality, are not adequate substitutes for growing up with a family.
In defining independent living arrangements, the Committee states:
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Executive Summary
Sexual abuse, including sexual assault or rape, of children and adolescents is a major global public health problem, a violation of human rights, and has many health consequences in the short and long term. The physical, sexual, reproductive health and mental health consequences of such abuse are wide ranging and need to be addressed. Data from several settings show that children and adolescents are disproportionately represented among the cases of sexual abuse that are brought to the attention of health-care providers.
This guideline provides recommendations aimed…
This section is the first of three in Program P: A Manual for Engaging Men in Fatherhood, Caregiving, and Maternal and Child Health. It is designed to help health care professionals engage with men in the health sector and promote active fatherhood. It focuses on the interaction between professional and father from prenatal through postnatal stages and how to encourage their participation in caregiving until the child is 4 years old.
This booklet from SOS Children’s Villages International was created for young people to explain in a simple manner the main points of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children approved by the United Nations General Assembly in 2009. The booklet helps its young audience think about the principles of alternative care and what these mean for children and families in different situations. By recommending and instructing actions children and youth can take under each principle, the booklet encourages its audience to advocate for adequate care and protection for…
This handbook, Moving Forward: Implementation of the ‘Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children,’ was developed by CELSIS under an initiative of the Working Group on Children without Parental Care of the NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the project’s Steering Committee which included representatives from ISS, SOS Children’s Villages International, Family for Every Child, ATD Fourth World, Better Care Network, RELAF, and UNICEF.
It is designed as a tool for legislators, policy-makers, and all…
The Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action were formulated between January 2011 and September 2012 by the Child Protection Working Group (CPWG), an inter-agency working group composed of child protection practitioners, other humanitarians, academics, and policy makers. Altogether, over 400 individuals from 30 agencies and 40 countries around the world contributed to the development of the standards. The standards set out a common agreement on what needs to be achieved in order for child protection in humanitarian settings to be of adequate quality.…