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Why Care Matters: The importance of adequate care for children and society
This report reflects the views and collective expertise of 15 national organisations working hands on with millions of vulnerable children worldwide. These organisations have come together to form Family for Every Child, an alliance aimed at enabling more
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Child Protection Issue Brief: Alternative Care
This Issue Brief addresses Alternative Care and the relating key concepts of: unaccompanied children, separated children, caregivers, family tracing and reunification, and child-headed households. The UN Refugee Agency is in a unique position to emphasize
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The Best Interests of the Child in Intercountry Adoption
From the perspective of intercountry adoption, this study responds, in particular, to the question: what is it that enables a policy, process, decision, or practice to be qualified as either respectful of or in violation of the best interests of the child
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Development perspectives of foster care in Armenia: Research Analysis Results
This report, produced by the Center for Educational Research and Consulting (CERC) and Save the Children, summarises the broader research study ‘Development Perspectives of Foster Care in Armenia’, which examined the foster care pilot programme introduced
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Save the Children Intercountry Adoption Policy Brief
Globally, tens of thousands of children are adopted from one country to another every year, with the vast majority of them being adopted from developing to developed countries. While the number of international adoptions in the last several years has decl
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National experiences on the management of the demand for intercountry adoption
A ChildONEurope study that compares and analyses the different laws and practices in the field of intercountry adoptions within EU countries and their way of cooperating and managing the demand of their residents. In particular, the survey aims to:- compa
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Adopting better care: Improving adoption services around the world
Adopting better care promotes positive care choices for children living without parental care. It examines domestic and inter-country adoption and aims to explore why adoption is so rarely used globally. The paper also explores whether or not an expansion
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Child Abandonment and its Prevention in Europe
Article 7 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child clearly states that every child has “the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents”. When a child is abandoned, this right is violated. Infants and young children are those m
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Families, not orphanages
AIDS and other diseases, armed conflict, natural disasters, forced displacement and extreme poverty leave millions of children orphaned, separated, or on the brink of family breakdown. These children need and have a right to protection and care, and gover
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HAITI: “Expediting” intercountry adoptions in the aftermath of a natural disaster … preventing future harm
Haiti has been a 'popular' country of origin, meaning that thousands of children were at some stage of the adoption process – albeit simply "identified" as potentially adoptable – when the earthquake struck. There were diverse and contrasting responses by
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Alternative Childcare Guidelines on Community-Based Childcare, Reunification and Reintegration Program, Foster Care, Adoption and Institutional Care Service
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Women’s Affairs has revised and updated the country’s alternative care guidelines, which general objective is “to establish a regulatory instrument on childcare systems with a view to contribute towards improving the quality of care
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Fostering better care. Improving foster care provision around the world
The paper suggests that further efforts are needed to ensure that foster care is an option open to a wider range of children. Foster care leads to better outcomes for children than harmful forms of residential care, and may be a more suitable choice than