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Introduction:
This Thematic Brief on Volunteering, Voluntourism, Tourism, and Trafficking in Orphanages was developed to provide guidance to governments, policy and decision-makers. It also supports the implementation of international commitments made in the context of the 2019 UN General Assembly Rights of the Child Resolution on children without parental care.
It explains how to take appropriate measures to address and prevent the harms associated with orphanage volunteering, orphanage tourism and voluntourism and the orphanage trafficking connected to it.
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WHAT IS ORPHANAGE TRAFFICKING?
Orphanage trafficking is a form of child trafficking defined as the recruitment or transfer of children into orphanages, or any residential care facility (RCF), for a purpose of exploitation or profit. It involves both ‘acts’ and ‘purposes of exploitation’ that meet the definition of child trafficking under the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons (‘UN Trafficking Protocol’).
This document provides clear definitions of what orphanage trafficking is and how to detect this kind of exploitation.
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Results from the Enhancing Identification, Prosecution and Prevention of Orphanage Trafficking Study in Cambodia.
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This is a list of indicators of acts: Unlawful Removal, Recruitment, and Transfer of a Child into a Residential Care Institution
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This is a list of indicators of acts: Unlawful Removal, Recruitment, and Transfer of a Child into a Residential Care Institution
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The Context
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed children at a higher risk of abuse and violence at home with domestic and gender-based violence increasing around the world. This has had both immediate and longterm consequences for children. z In the first three months of the pandemic up to 85 million more girls and boys worldwide may have been exposed to physical, sexual and/ or emotional violence. School closures interrupted education for 1.6 billion children and meant that 500,000 more girls were at risk of forced marriage. Eighty per cent of studies looking at violence against women and…
Case management can be a complex process where multiple factors must be considered for the safety and well-being of a child in any care option. Miracle Foundation’s proprietary Home Thrive ScaleTM is a strengths-based assessment tool that makes it easier to identify strengths, risks and address areas of support within a family home over time. A home’s safety is measured based on five well-being domains—family and social relations, health and mental health, education, living conditions and household economy—with the child and family’s thoughts at the core. Intervention options are then…
This document presents a set of minimum standards of care, which it is recommended that residential care facilities (RCFs) strive to adopt, particularly those RCFs engaged with or receiving support from CRS. The standards are designed to be applicable to a variety of residential care settings and are recommended to be used to promote care practices and approaches that contribute to positive child well-being.
The Minimum Standards for the Care of Children in Residential Care Facilities guidance document includes:
- Summary of Minimum Standards for the Care of…
This Toolkit for Disability Inclusion in Care Reform represents a collection of work developed from the experience of many practitioners and organizations. As we learn about and scale care reform globally, we must consider disability inclusion in all that we do. Children with disabilities are disproportionately represented in residential care facilities and that they are too often are the last to be reunified with their own families, supported for independent living, or placed in alternative families. The aim of this toolkit is to increase the capacity and confidence of those working…
This toolkit is the outcome of four seminars organised by the Service Civil International (SCI), an international peace organisation dedicated to promoting a culture of peace by organising international voluntary projects.
The toolkit asks the questions:
- 'How can we make volunteers reflect on the colonial power structures that are behind their ideas of “development” and “help”?
- How can we make them lose their unconscious or even conscious imperial and white supremacist approaches, seeing countries in the Global North as superior to those in the Global South…