Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

35 years after the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the best interests of the child remain a contentious issue: A case study on the repatriation of children from ISIS (EJIL: Talk Blog, Nov. 2024) [text]

Reports:

From Congregate to Community-Based Care: Strengthening Reunification and Support of Unaccompanied Children (Women's Refugee Commission, Oct. 2024) [access]

- Focuses on the US. Follow link for report, brief and snapshot.

Guía para presentar solicitudes de reconocimiento de la condición de refugiado de niñas, niños y adolescentes en Colombia (Govt. of Colombia, UNICEF & UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text via Refworld]

Insights on Child Marriage: Discussions on Gender-Based Violence (UNRWA, Dec. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

*“It does not feel like real life”: Children’s everyday life in Greek refugee camps (Save the Children, Dec. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Missing Futures: The Urgent Need to Protect Gaza’s Children & Safeguard their Futures (Save the Children, Nov. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Russia’s Systematic Program of Coerced Adoption and Fostering of Ukraine’s Children (Yale Univ., Dec. 2024) [access]

Unaccompanied Refugee Minors’ Journey to Greece: Displacement, Protection, and the Impact on Mental Health, RLI Working Paper, no. 72 (Univ. of London, Oct. 2024) [text]

UNHCR Guidelines on international legal standards relating to family reunification for refugees and other beneficiaries of international protection (UNHCR, Dec. 2024) [text]

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1 (20 Nov. 2024)

- Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 2 (20 Nov. 2024)