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The 2024 edition of this UN Human Rights Council’s annual event will take place on the 14th March 2024 in Geneva and discuss children rights and inclusive social protection.
On the 14th March 2024, from 11:00 to 17:00 CET, The Palace of Nations in Geneva, home of the United Nations Office, will host the 2024 edition of UN Human Rights Council’s Annual Day on the Rights of the Child (ADRC), where States, United Nations representatives, children and more will meet to discuss challenges and opportunities concerning children’s rights and…
The Permanent Bureau (PB) of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) seeks a Project Coordinator (Full-Time) to coordinate trainings, workshops and other events in relation to the HCCH 1993 Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (1993 Adoption Convention).
The Project Coordinator will, among other things:
- assume responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the Intercountry Adoption Technical Adoption Programme (ICATAP);
- develop documentation that succinctly and effectively…
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As the war in Ukraine enters its third year, the nation's children are feeling the overwhelming stress of…
The most important phone call of Yevhen Mezhevyi’s life came in mid-June of 2022. His anxiety, fear and exhaustion at the time makes him fuzzy about the exact date.
What he does remember is the sound of his son’s voice. Matvii was calling from Russia, where he and his two younger sisters had been forcibly deported nearly a month before — the same morning Mezhevyi, a single father and Ukrainian soldier from Mariupol, had been released without explanation after spending 45 days as a…
Temporary cover for period: March 2024 – August 2024 (6 months) contract
Salary:
3200 – 3500€ gross monthly salary depending on experience
Benefits:
Benefits (13th month, lunch tickets, full hospitalisation & pension insurance)
Location:
Brussels based
Only short-listed candidates will be notified and invited to the first round of online interviews (6 March 2024 - date to be confirmed).
The Children’s Homes Association (CHA) has released the trailer for its series of short documentary films in a bid to “reset the narrative” around residential care for children. The Children’s Homes Association (CHA) has released the trailer for its series of short documentary films in a bid to “reset the narrative” around residential care for children.
Working with local and national governments, CHA provides insight and consultation on policy changes within the residential sector.
It said that the “sensitive nature” around filming in residential settings has led to “poor and…
Teenager Dima lost his mum, dad and two grandparents when they were all killed in a missile attack on his village of Hroza in north-eastern Ukraine last October.
"I still can't grasp it completely," the 16-year-old tells me.
"Now I am responsible for our house," he says.
He adds that he feels most sorry for his youngest sister: "Before this happened she didn't like it when I hugged her. Now she wants to hug me all the time."
On 5 October 2023, a missile struck a cafe in Hroza, in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine, killing 59 people - a fifth of the village's…
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Application of scientific findings to effective practice and informed policymaking is an aspiration for much research in the biomedical, behavioural, and developmental sciences. But too often translations of science to practice are conceptually narrow, ethically underspecified, and developed quickly as salves to an urgent problem. For developmental science, widely implemented parenting interventions are prime examples of technical translations from knowledge about the causes of children’s mental distress. Aiming to support family relationships and facilitate adaptive child development, these…