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Udayan Care launched an academic journal, Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond (ICEB), in 2014. This 10th issue of the journal, released in September 2018, is a Special Focus issue on ‘Aftercare.’ The issue includes research studies, legal and policy perspectives, case studies, desk reviews, opinion pieces, international perspectives, interviews with experts from the field, good models and best practices, and movie and book reviews.
The issue features an interview with a care-leaver from Sri Lanka who grew up in institutions…
This newsletter issue from Senator Linda Reynolds of Western Australia, written in conjunction with Kate van Doore of Griffith Law School, was written in preparation for the Australian Parliamentary inquiry on modern slavery and describes the ways in which orphanage trafficking constitutes modern-day slavery. The senator calls on her constituents to help by committing not to volunteer in orphanages overseas and encouraging others to do the same.
Australians have long known the harm institutionalised care can do to children, yet Australians are rushing in record numbers to…
This 10-page newsletter, translated into English, is issue number two of a series produced by the “Protecting children of Moldova from family separation, violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation” project, which is implemented by Partnerships for Every Child, the Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Family of Moldova, and the Ministry of Education of Moldova. The issue contains articles on respite placement for children with disabilities, the government’s approval of a draft law on the protection of children at risk and separated from parents, the inter-sector cooperation for assistance…
This concise document provides an overview of current topics in adoption. It includes an editorial, news, practice, and legislation. Specifically, the articles are:
- An editorial on the selection of prospective adoptive parents
- Adoption in Costa Rica, Denmark, Slovakia
- New regulation in Costa Rica and Ecuador
- Denmark's temporary suspension of adoptions from India
- The Phillipine's temporary suspension in the registration of unmarried prospective parents
- Orphans affected by HIV/…
Following on from our Focus Report on the Right of Children with Disabilities to Live in the Community, published in December 2006, this issue includes three articles relevant to questions of care for disabled children around the world:
Children and Young People With Disabilities in Residential Institutions in Greece - By Prof. John Tsiantis, APHCA
Prof. John Tsiantis points out that while within the Greek mental health system there have been successful moves towards developing community-based alternatives to institutional care there has been little improvement in the…
In November 2006 Cordaid and Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland organised a seminar in Bangalore, India. This seminar focused on alternative forms of care for children without parental care, an issue of growing concern across India.
This newsletter is designed to present the one-year progress of various organizations since the seminar. Fifteen organizations are featured here. Every example or news item includes contact information to facilitate futher follow-up. For more information (or postal addresses), interested parties are encouraged to contact Cordaid or Kinderpostzegels.
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This edition of the IFCO Informer focuses on the effects of HIV/AIDS on families and suggests ways in which foster care solutions can mitigate the impacts of the epidemic on children. Major articles illustrate how this disease is affecting millions of human lives in countries such as Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, the Ivory Coast, India, and The Netherlands. These articles highlight the systematic inadequacies of childcare in institutions and children’s homes and stress the importance of family- and community-based alternatives for children affected HIV/AIDS. This special…
An 8-page document containing articles and updates from ISS/IRC. Relevant resources include:
Editorial: From respite care abroad... to adoption?
Procedure: Cambodia: Is the country ready to resume the inter-country adoption?
Children’s Rights: A Rapid Assessment of Children’s Homes in post-Tsunami Aceh
Children's Rights: Foster Families in Paraguay
©International Social Services and International Reference Centre for the Rights of the Child Deprived of their Family (ISS/IRC)
This double edition of the ISS Monthly Review is a brief progress report on the situation of children in need of alternative care or at risk of so being, five years after the Guidelines’ acceptance at the United Nations’ General Assembly. The review highlights brief news on adoption, an overview of alternative care reform in Liberia, a feature on Ebola and alternative care, and an update from Florence Martin, director of the Better Care Network, entitled “Tracking Progress Initiative – Monitoring the Guidelines’ Implementation” which provides a brief overview of the Tracking Progress …