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A pesquisa aqui apresentada teve como objetivo construir informações sobre as principais políticas, medidas e ações desenvolvidas no nível regional, visando acompanhar a saída de adolescentes e jovens do sistema de cuidados alternativos e indagar a sua eficácia, efetividade, sustentabilidade e adaptação a uma abordagem de direitos na Argentina, Bolívia, Brasil, Colômbia, México e Peru. Este relatório…
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In the present report, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 37/20, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights provides an overview of the legal framework and practical measures to empower children with disabilities. She focuses on empowerment through participation and inclusive education, and analyses how to foster the personal and public decision-making of children with disabilities, their inclusion in the community and their protection from abuse, exploitation and violence. The High Commissioner concludes the report with a number of recommendations to…
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Too many children, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups are being deprived of their family and community by being placed in large-scale residential institutions. These institutions are extremely harmful to an individual’s well-being and development, and significantly more expensive than community- or family-based care.
This document was developed by UNICEF with funding support from the Oak Foundation, and in broad consultation and partnership with a range of civil society groups, NGOs and networks which are engaged in advocacy, monitoring, and…
This report from the Child Protection Area of Responsibility (CP AoR) highlights the child protection needs and responses in Syria and includes objectives and targets for continued child protection interventions and strategies. The report describes the situation of children's care and protection in Syria, including the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict, child marriage, child abuse and neglect, and family separation. It defines UNICEF's intervention priorities and strategies in the country, including providing psycosocial support and specialized services, strengthening the…
This position paper from Opening Doors for Europe's Children explains the position of the organization in regards to the EU's Multiannual Financial Framework and the measures within it to support or inhibit the transition from institutional care to family-based care of children. Opening Doors welcomes and affirms many aspects of the Framework that recognize the importance of reforming child protection systems and providing more support to children in alternative care. However, the organization also expresses its concern in regards to other features of the Framework which will not ensure the…
This joint memo was issued by a group of European organizations to clearly state their belief that the draft language on community living in the proposed EU Structural Funds Regulations should be amended to enhance the effect and to better advance the rights of children, persons with disabilities, and older people. The memo highlights the need to clarify and improve the text, and why this is necessary in order to uphold the international legal obligations of the EU to promote the right to community living, particularly for children, persons with disabilities, and older people.
In 2013, Better Care Network (BCN) initiated an important process of developing a new Strategic Plan identifying the main strategic focus for its work over the next four years (2014-2017). The plan is based on an analysis of BCN’s achievements to date, the strategic areas in which BCN can have most impact in the future by working with key actors to strengthen the response to children without adequate family care.
The Strategic Plan was developed with the support of Global Child Protection Services through a collaborative …
This document is intended as a guide, primarily for UNICEF staff and partners, to building effective partnerships with larger religious, and local faith, communities and networks, especially religious leaders. Religious communities are often key actors in working with vulnerable children and families and experience dictates that it is important for child rights actors to have adequate knowledge, skills and attitudes for effective and constructive collaboration with religious communities.
This guide suggests that partnerships with religious communities should contribute to children’s well-…
In its 2013 State of the World's Children Report, UNICEF has chosen to highlight the particular issues, needs, and circumstances ofchildren with disabilities worldwide. The report describes ways in which responses to the situations children with disabilities face often do not grant them the opportunity to flourish and are largely limited to institutionalization, abandonment, or neglect. The report features powerful personal testimonies and recommendations from children with disability, parents, and…
The first ever World report on disability, produced jointly by WHO and the World Bank, suggests that more than a billion people in the world today experience disability.
People with disabilities have generally poorer health, lower education achievements, fewer economic opportunities and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities. This is largely due to the lack of services available to them and the many obstacles they face in their everyday lives. The report provides the best available evidence about what works to…