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Recognizing the increasing number of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and the need to provide standardized and quality alternative childcare and support services, The Ministry of Women and Social Affairs (MOWSA) in collaboration with pertinent child welfare stakeholders, took the initiative to produce a Directive on Alternative Childcare and Support.
The Directive serves as a comprehensive legally binding document aiming to reduce reliance on institutional care services by standardizing alternative care service…
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Cet article est un extrait de la recherche menée pour le Comité des droits de l’enfant de Hong Kong (HKCCR) qui examine la mise en œuvre à Hong Kong du droit des enfants d’être entendus dans les procédures les concernant, garanti par l’article 12 de la CIDE. Alors que les recherches commandées par le HKCCR s’é tendent à de multiples domaines, de l’éducation et la santé à l’élaboration de politiques constitutionnelles, ainsi qu’aux loisirs et à la culture notamment, cet article propose une analyse critique de la manière dont la voix des enfants est entendue dans le cadre…
On November 20 and 21 Member States of the UN General Assembly participated in a High-level meeting on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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In its resolution 73/155, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to submit to it at its seventy-fourth session a comprehensive report on the rights of the child containing information on the status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with a focus on children without parental care. The present report outlines Legal and normative framework related to children without parental care, Programmatic advances for children without parental care, Ongoing challenges to care reform, and Conclusions and recommendations.
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is a human rights treaty establishing rights of persons with disabilities. It was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 13 December 2006 and it came into force on 3 May 2008. It has been ratified by 157 countries to date. A number of provisions of the Convention are especially relevant to children's care. A number of articles are directly applicable to the care of children with disabilities as well as support for caregivers who have disabilities, in particular Article 7 on children with…
The Convention on the Rights of the Child is a human rights treaty establishing the rights of children. It was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 20 November 1989 and it came into force on 2 September 1990. It has been ratified by 195 countries to date. A number of provisions of the Convention are especially relevant to children's care, in particular, Articles 9, 10, 19, 20, 21, among others.
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This Declaration on Child Rights and Wellbeing was adopted by the Partner States of the East African Community (EAC) in Bujumbura on 3rd September 2012 during the First EAC Child Rights Conference under the theme, “Addressing the issues that negatively impact on the realisation of child rights in the EAC.”
The American Convention on Human Rights in an international human rights instrument adopted in San Jose, Costa Rica in November 1969. It has been ratified or acceded by 25 countries in the region (As of September 2015). It includes a number of articles relevant to children's care including, Article on the Right to Personal Liberty, Article 17 on Rights of the Family, Article 18 on the Right to a Name, Article 19 on Rights of the Child and Article 24 on the Right to Equal Protection.
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This Unified Resolution from the Twenty-First Pan-American Child and Adolescent Congress highlights resolutions, declarations, recommendations and general comments relevant to violence against children, made by various treaty bodies and general assemblies. The Resolution recognizes the legislative impact the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has had in the Inter-American System and the progress Member States have made in addressing violence against children. The Resolution also considers the imperatives and responsibilities of Member States to maintain and increase efforts…
In advance of the 21st Pan American Child and Adolescent Congress, the United Nations General Assembly, the Government of Brazil, together with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Latin American and Caribbean Chapter of the Global Movement for Children, and the NGO Group on Children without Parental Care based in New York, convened an international consultation on the elimination of violence against children in alternative care. Experts in government and civil society gathered together to…