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EveryChild helps raise plight of separated children up UN's agenda
EveryChild has helped bolster the UN’s commitment to helping children separated from their families. The UN’s new guidelines for children without parental care call on governments around the world to prioritise family-based care, such as adoption and fostering, over institutional care. This is thanks to pressure from EveryChild and other members of the Children Without Parental Care Working Group. These guidelines are included in a new Resolution on the Rights of the Child that has just been adopted by the UN General Assembly.
EveryChild used its experience of helping children in Georgia and Ukraine to persuade the UN to adopt a stronger stance on alternative forms of care to residential children’s homes. The resolution on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the UN General Assembly in November. EveryChild’s work to raise the issue of the reform of institutional care up the international political agenda continues.
Download copy of UN Resolution on the Rights of the Child here