N° 72-73 – Improving Protection for Children without Parental Care: A Call for International Standards

Millions of children throughout the world are currently in, or in need of, out-of-home care because their parents are unavailable or unable to care for them. They live with relatives, in foster care, in residential facilities, in child-headed households or in the street. They reside in their own country or are displaced internationally (children placed abroad, separated child asylum seekers or undocumented migrants …). Sometimes, care is provided under conditions that violate their rights: abuse, lack of efforts towards family reunification and/or permanency planning, deprivation of liberty, etc.