GUATEMALA ONE YEAR AFTER THE MASSACRE OF THE GIRLS - WEBINAR MARCH 08th, 2018, 8:00 - 10:00 AM GUATE
ENDING HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AGAINST CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS HOUSED IN INSTITUTIONS: A CALL TO ACTION Register for participation in the Webinar In Latin America, more than 243,000 children have been separated from their families and are growing up in residential care, where they lack the individualised care they need. Estimates suggest that in Guatemala at least 5,600 children are living in residential care facilities. Some are “macroinstitutions” that house hundreds of boys and girls who live in isolation from society, while having insufficient staff and scarce supervision from the state. Not only in Guatemala, but also in the majority of countries in Latin America and other regions, res
“Shaping High Quality Child and Youth Care” FICE International 70th Anniversary April 4th – 7th, 2018 in Trogen, Switzerland We cordially invite you to participate in the event “Shaping High Quality Child and Youth Care”, which will take place at Stiftung Kinderdorf Pestalozzi in Trogen, Switzerland from 4th to 7th April. The event is organized on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of FICE International. It includes celebration, regular FICE Federal Council, as well as Professional program. For this exciting gathering, we will return to Trogen - the place where FICE was founded 70 years ago with a mission to promote best quality standards and solutions in the field of child and youth care.
Human Rights Council side event, 8.30-10 am, 7 March 2018 Palais des Nations, Geneva, Room VIII, Light breakfast will be provided As one of the co-organizers of this side event, FICE would like invite you to take part. Supported by the Permanent Missions of Italy, France and Uruguay, a number of international organisations propose to have a side-event to complement the annual day on the rights of the childfocusing on humanitarian settings. The side event’s objectives are to use international standards, inparticular the UN Guidelines on alternative care of children to build bridges between the humanitariansector, alternative care workers and others to improve responses in order to: · Identify
Getting Care Right for All Children: Implementing the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Chil
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Nurturing Hope for Rohingya Orphans and Mothers Fleeing Burmese Genocide: Reflections on Personal En
The plight of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people is said to be currently the world's fastest growing refugee crisis. Risking death by sea or on foot, nearly a million women, children and men have fled the destruction of their homes and persecution in the northern Rakhine province of Myanmar (Burma) for neighbouring Cox's Bazaar - a district in Bangladesh - since August 2017. The United Nations has called the Rohingya people's the “world’s most persecuted minority group” and described the atrocities committed by Myanmar’s authorities as a, "textbook example of ethnic cleansing and genocide". Almost 60% of those fleeing Myanmar are children. Thousands have become orphans while others bec