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The Opening Doors for Europe’s Children – a pan-European campaign of leading international and national civil society organisations – welcomes the EU’s continued commitment to end the era of institutional care in Europe and calls for an expansion of this commitment to continue progress with national reforms of the child protection systems in all European countries.
As a coalition representing 124 civil society organisations working towards improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of children living in institutional care across Europe, we have three key demands to the European Union in…
A total of 327 children and young people in street situations from 32 countries were consulted in the development of General Comment 21 on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, issued by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. General Comment 21 "provides authoritative guidance to States on developing comprehensive, long-term national strategies on children in street situations using a holistic, child rights approach and addressing both prevention and response in line with the Convention on the Rights of the Child." While the…
Executive Summary
Across Europe hundreds of thousands of children are growing up in institutional care. The consequences are devastating for children, devastating for families and ultimately, devastating for society as a whole.
The Opening Doors for Europe’s Children Campaign seeks to improve the quality of life of children and young people in, at risk of entering, or leaving institutional care across Europe by promoting the transition from institutional to family-based care, also called deinstitutionalisation (DI). Through coordinated advocacy at national and EU level…
This report, from the African Child Policy Forum, is aimed at informing and accelerating pan-African, regional and national efforts to prevent and respond to violence against children. The report provides an overview of violence against children, including its nature and magnitude in the African continent. The report outlines the primary forms of violence against children - physical violence, neglect, sexual violence, mental and psychological violence, and cultural practices that involve physical or emotional harm - as well as the contexts in which violence may occur, including in the home,…
The stigma, discrimination and diminished life chances faced by children who are abused, exploited and neglected exacerbates inequity, and in general these boys and girls are not able to contribute to economies to their full potential. In addition to the damaging impacts on children themselves, the negative effects of child maltreatment on human capital, combined with the costs associated with responding to abuse and neglect, means that inadequate care and protection also hinders economic growth.
A group of leading international and national Non-Governmental Organizations working to ensure…
Cette déclaration a été développée à partir d’un ensemble grandissant de pratiques et de faits probants sur le renforcement des systèmes de protection de l’enfance en Afrique subsaharienne1 et s’inspire du dialogue et des résultats d’une conférence interinstitutionnelle sur le sujet qui a eu lieu à Dakar au Sénégal en mai 2012.
Son objectif est (i) de présenter une vision commune des systèmes de protection de l’enfance en Afrique subsaharienne et d’expliquer pourquoi ils sont importants et méritent des investissements et (ii) lancer un appel à l’action auprès des…
The 4th Forum on the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) was held between 18 and 20 March 2011 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. As is customary, the Forum was organised ahead of the 17th Ordinary Session of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) also taking place in Ethiopia. Ninety-seven activists from 23 countries (of which 19 were in Africa) attended the Forum, which is a framework for strategic partnership to improve child rights in Africa. The following recommendations were made to the…
This document is the seventh, and final, chapter of Doing Better for Children: The Way Forward, produced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The aim of this chapter is to contribute to the policy debate on child well-being, synthesising the previous chapters and drawing on the existing research and policy literature. It examines the wide range of policy choices confronting governments as they seek to improve child well-being and offers a policy synthesis of broad recommendations to enhance child well-being across the OECD.
The policy recommendations for improving…
This report focuses on the social protection aspects of children’s property and inheritance rights in southern and eastern Africa. The introduction summarizes the findings of the author’s previous report for FAO on the legal aspects of children’s property and inheritance rights, and it discusses the findings of the current report.
The second section discusses the bi-directional relationship between HIV/AIDS and agriculture, food security, and rural livelihoods (including the relationship between HIV/AIDS and children’s property and inheritance rights). The report also considers the factors…
International human rights declarations such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child address children’s rights to food, shelter, nationality, education, health, and freedom from torture, sexual violence, and exploitation. The conditions of life of street children are a violation of these human rights.
In medicine, patients who present with life-threatening behaviors are treated with prevention counseling, pharmacotherapy, and environmental modification. The medical community accepts the obligation to treat. For the medical community to accept responsibility for caring for children of…