Our written statement ahead of the 2024 ECOSOC High-level Segment of the UN High-level Political Forum 2024
Tag: Global
This communication, establishing the NDICI funding instrument, calls for, among other things, the promotion of the transition from institutional to community-based care for children.
During Covid19, children and young people around the world have lived through an experience unique to our age. Here is a presentation of their thoughts on the lockdown experience, the challenges and opportunities and their hopes for the future.
Alongside other like-minded organisations, we developed a set of key recommendations for the 2019 UN General Assembly Resolution on the Rights of the Child.
A key resolution focussing on children without parental care. For the first time, it recognises the harm caused by institutionalisation, prioritises prevention, and endorses family- and community-based care over institutions.
This study details the human rights violations in institutions for children, including deprivation of liberty and, in certain cases, torture.
In this 2016 document, we outline the questions and answers about institutional care.
Hope and Homes for Children calls on all the stakeholders that play a role in developing, running, supporting or influencing national care systems to join forces in a collaborative action to eradicate institutional care once and for all.
The paper discusses how institutional systems cumulate violations of children’s rights
The paper examines available evidence on the typical reasons why children end up in institutions, and the consequences and costs of providing this type of care compared to other options.
