21 April 2021

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

CFP: (Dis)connecting people? The law and practice of family reunification, Ghent, 9-10 September 2021 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 1 May 2021.

Blog posts & press:

"It’s time to end aid agency child sponsorship schemes," The New Humanitarian, 20 April 2021 [text]

"Nearly 17 child migrants a day vanished in Europe since 2018," The Guardian, 21 April 2021 [text]

*Spotlight on the Best Interests of the Child in Returns of Unaccompanied Children & Reflections for the New Pact on Migration and Asylum (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, April 2021) [text]

Reports:

Child Marriage in Humanitarian Settings: Study Overview (Women's Refugee Commission, April 2021) [access
- Follow link for more information about the study and an interactive infographic. See also related infographic on Key implications for Practice. Two regional reports and associated infographics are listed below. Additional infographics are available for Ethiopia and Lebanon.

Child Marriage in Humanitarian Settings in South Asia (Women's Refugee Commission, Oct. 2020) [text]
- See also related infographics for Bangladesh and Nepal.

Child Marriage in Humanitarian Settings in the Arab States Region: Study Results from Djibouti, Egypt, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and Yemen (Women's Refugee Commission, Dec. 2020) [text]
- See also related infographics for Djibouti, Egypt, Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Yemen.

"The Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Failure to Protect Refugee Children on the U.S.-Mexico Border," Peace Policy (March 2021) [text]

Expert Opinion on the Possibilities of Obtaining Documents for Eritrean Refugees in the Context of Family Reunification (Equal Rights Beyond Borders, April 2021) [text]

Reimagining Migration Responses: Learning from children and young people who move in the Horn of Africa, Innocenti Research Report (Unicef, 2021) [text]

A Web of Insecurity: How gender impacts childhood migration amid a pandemic, IDAC Issue Brief, no. 1 (International Data Alliance for Children on the Move, April 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

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