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• Getting Care Right for All Children: Implementing the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children

  All around the world, for many different reasons, hundreds of thousands of children cannot live with their parents. The UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children set out the principles for policy and practice that have been agreed upon globally, to help towards tackling this issue. Read More

  2017-05-02 • Read More

• 6th Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI)

  The International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI) will hold its 6th Conference under the theme “Children in a World of Opportunities: Innovations in Research, Policy and Practice” in Montreal, Canada from June 28-30, 2017. Read More

  2017-03-02 • Read More

• Call for Applications: Young Researchers’ Participation in SVRI Forum 2017

  The Sexual Violence Research Initiative is seeking to identify 10 young researchers between the ages of 18-24 who have engaged in participatory research activities on violence against children to attend the upcoming SVRI Forum 2017 as well as 5 NGO facilitators to support their participation in the conference. The Forum is scheduled to take place from 18-21 September in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Participants selected for this program should be based in Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and/or East Africa. Read More

  2017-02-28 • Read More

• My Perspective on the ECPAT Global Survivors’ Forum in Strasbourg

  By Sophie Otiende Read More

  2017-01-30 • Read More

• 10 lessons learned in care system reform in India

  By: Ian Anand Forber-Pratt Read More

  2017-01-24 • Read More

• Call for Articles

  The RISE Learning Network is inviting contributions from professionals around the world working on projects and programmes that aim at the recovery and reintegration of children affected by sexual exploitation and other forms of violence and abuse. Read More

  2017-01-22 • Read More

• Protection against Human Trafficking – How is That Done?

  An Interview with Dr. Luke S. Bearup  Read More

  2017-01-18 • Read More

• Webinar on Child and Youth Participation in Monitoring and Evaluation of Reintegration

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  2016-11-22 • Read More

• Railway Children & Juconi International Conference – “Breaking the cycle: Reintegrating street-connected children: applying theory, developing practice”

  The NGOs Railway Children and Juconi International will host a conference from 17-18 November, 2016 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania titled  “Breaking the cycle: Reintegrating street-connected children: applying theory, developing practice”. Read More

  2016-08-01 • Read More

• Launch of Global Terminology Guidelines for the protection of children from sexual exploitation and sexual abuse

  An 18-member Global Interagency Working Group (IWG) coordinated by ECPAT International has released the ‘Terminology Guidelines for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse’. Read More

  2016-06-16 • Read More

• Call for Expressions of Interest to participate in a Community of Learning on Monitoring and Evaluation of Reintegration of Children and Adolescents

  The RISE Learning Network is inviting all organisations to participate in a Learning Project on Monitoring and Evaluating Reintegration Projects for Children and Adolescents. Read More

  2016-06-04 • Read More

• Call for a Photographic Exhibition

  The Inter-American Children’s Institute (IIN) is the specialized agency of the OAS responsible of promotion of studies related to children, adolescents and the family in the Americas and to generate technical instruments that improve the performance of States in the promotion and protection of the Rights of children and adolescents
  through their public policies. Read More

  2017-04-28 • Read More

• Call for short stories: “Rights should not be a fairy tale”

  With the purpose of promoting and encouraging children’s participation in the region, through artistic, expressive and creative spaces, the Inter-American Institute of the Child, within the framework of its 90th Anniversary, invites them to take part in a Collection of Short Stories “RIGHTS SHOULD NOT BE A FAIRY TALE”. Read More

  2017-04-28 • Read More