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Over the two days of May 23-24, 2022, the Jesuit Justice and Ecology Network – Africa (JENA) and the Africa Task Force of the Vatican COVID-19 Commission brought together practitioners and specialists for a critical examination of the Theology and Practice of Child Protection in Africa.
The objective of this conference was threefold:
- To listen to God and to one another in order to discern the best ways to carry out the work of child protection in Africa
- To develop proposals and interdisciplinary discussion papers that will be used to contribute to taking forward…
The Context
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed children at a higher risk of abuse and violence at home with domestic and gender-based violence increasing around the world. This has had both immediate and longterm consequences for children. z In the first three months of the pandemic up to 85 million more girls and boys worldwide may have been exposed to physical, sexual and/ or emotional violence. School closures interrupted education for 1.6 billion children and meant that 500,000 more girls were at risk of forced marriage. Eighty per cent of studies looking at violence against women and…
Eurochild has published two new pieces of analysis to support efforts by the EU and the Ukrainian government to ensure the care of children arriving from Ukraine unaccompanied, separated from their families or who are placed in alternative care.
Building on Eurochild’s DataCare project with UNICEF ECARO, Eurochild is supporting UNICEF’s emergency response work to the invasion of Ukraine to support coordination efforts with the Ukrainian Ministry of Social Policy, the EU and Member…
This discussion paper addresses issues facing unaccompanied and separated children fleeing Ukraine and arriving in the European Union (EU). In particular, it focuses on the priority issue of how care and custodial arrangements and guardianship under child protection and migration measures are established within EU Member States. This question has implications for how children access protection, how information on their circumstances is managed and ultimately how durable solutions are identified and secured for children.
This discussion paper was prepared by Child Circle…
Background:
The coronavirus pandemic has led to a situation without precedent in modern history. The aim of this study is to analyse the consequences after one year of the pandemic on a group of children and adolescents assessed at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 and to determine the most effective ways of psychologically coping with this pandemic.
Method:
Two different, but equivalent, groups with a total of 604 (study I, 2020) and 743 (study II, 2021) children and adolescents in residential care, foster families, kinship families or family strengthening…
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic significantly disrupted education systems in the United States as evidenced by school closures, the rapid implementation of online learning, physical distancing policies, and restrictions on extracurricular activities. Youth in foster care are a vulnerable population in need of school-based services and supports to ensure positive educational outcomes.
This qualitative interview study assessed the pandemic’s impact on the educational experiences of foster youth in the United States from the perspectives of their caseworkers. Participant…
The COVID-19 pandemic is not just a biological phenomenon and is laying bare social, political and economic inequalities in a way not witnessed in recent times. Society’s most vulnerable and most invisible populations, including marginalised populations in low- and middle-income countries, are on course to suffer disproportionately from the social and economic effects. As vaccines are developed and countries compete to purchase them it becomes increasingly clear that those in the Global South will be the last to receive sufficient numbers of vaccines for their populations. This overview…
With the spate of armed conflicts, development displacements and natural hazards across Nigeria in the past couple of decades, the menace of internal displacement remains a major concern for the Nigerian government and the humanitarian sectors. While the government has mechanisms for support and protection of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) across the country, a majority of the interventions for the support of IDPs across Nigeria comes from humanitarian organizations. Within this vulnerable population, children are more vulnerable in terms of access to health care, education, water,…
This review will first highlight systemic/institutional inequities accentuated by the pandemic for subgroups of vulnerable children. These include Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI), Black and Latinx, Indigenous populations, refugee communities, those with disability and LGBTQIA+ youth. It will then examine the impact of COVID-19 on the lives of American children including the effects on poverty, food insecurity and housing instability. It then explores the disruptions in health care access and utilization, childcare, and education. It will then review the overarching implications…
The WHO European Framework for Action on Mental Health (EFAMH), covering the period 2021–2025, sets out a response to current mental health challenges arising from the negative impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on population mental health and well-being. The EFAMH provides a coherent basis for intensified efforts to mainstream, promote and safeguard mental well-being as an integral element of COVID-19 response and recovery; to counter the stigma and discrimination associated with mental health conditions; and to advocate for and promote investment in accessible quality…