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On 7 April 2022, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on "EU Protection of Children and Young People Fleeing the War Against Ukraine" calling for greater protection of children fleeing war in Ukraine, particularly vulnerable children, for the registration of children entering the EU from institutional care, as well as monitoring their well-being and location in the EU. MEPs called on member states to halt child adoptions in order to avoid further or permanent separation of children from their parents and families against their best interests.
This resource from Opening Doors for Europe's Children features an interactive map of Europe which offers a brief description of children's care reforms in highlighted countries. According to the resource, Poland has made family strengthening a priority in recent legislation, Lithuania has developed quality alternative care options (including professional foster care), Ukraine adopted a national deinstitutionalization strategy, and Moldova has reduced the number of children in institutions by 87% since the beginning of its deinstitutionalization strategy in 2007, to name a few.…
Resulting from the June 2017 Africa Expert Consultation on Violence against Children in All Care Settings and adopted by all participants of the meeting, this Declaration calls upon leaders at national, sub-regional, pan-African and global levels for further action to fulfill their obligation to protect children against violence in all care settings, with emphasis on…
This roadmap to ending the detention of children in immigration from the Initiative for Child Rights in the Global Compacts outlines the commitments, examples of practice, reference documents, and guidelines for each stage of the strategy from June 2019 to June 2025. Stages include:
- Developing national action plans for ending child immigration detention
- Reporting on the number of children held in immigration detention each year
- Developing and implementing child-sensitive alternatives to immigration detentio
- Reporting on progress in…
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…
INTRODUCTION
The New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants is an important reaffirmation by Heads of State and Government and High Representatives of their intention “to fully protect the human rights of all refugees and migrants, regardless of status”. A key outcome of the Declaration is the creation of two new Global Compacts, one on refugees and one on migrants. These Global Compacts, to be agreed by government representatives at the United Nations (UN) in 2018, will articulate common commitments in respect of the protection of refugees and migrants. Regarding children, …
This document describes the 2017-2020 strategy of Family For Every Child. The Strategy paper highlights the mission and vision of Family For Every Child, provides examples of past work and key lessons, and describes its approach and goals to create change toward better care for children.
The current 2017-2020 goals for change are:
- Enabling children to grow up in permanent, safe and caring families
- Ensuring a range of high-quality alternative care choices
Summary
This policy outlines the issues of voluntourism and orphanages in relation to child protection, and states the criteria by which organisations (private commercial companies, social enterprises and charities) involved in voluntourism activities may apply to join The Code. This document is primarily intended for use by the Secretariat of The Code and Local Code Representatives (LCRs) when assessing a membership application from an organisation engaged in…
The 21-22 June 2017 Africa Expert Consultation on Violence against Children (VAC) in All Care Settings was the second in a series of regional consultations focused on engaging experts within the region to collaborate, share learning, and formulate a set of regional recommendations for key actors to effectively address violence against children within all care settings,…
Executive Summary
In December 2015, Altai Consulting was commissioned by Save the Children’s Middle East and Eurasia Regional Office to conduct a research study on the protection of children fleeing from the Syria conflict and traveling to Europe. The specific objectives of the study are:
1. To identify the drivers compelling Syrians to undertake secondary movements from neighbouring countries to Europe;
2. To trace the routes of travel that they follow on their journeys;
3. To identify the key protection issues that children face along the way;
4. To map the…