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In keeping with the spirit of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, family and parenting support is increasingly recognized as an important part of national social policies and social investment...

Official Records of the Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2002, General Assembly Official Records, Fifty-seventh session.


Official Records of the Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2009, General Assembly Official Records, Sixty-fourth session.


Official Records of the Economic and Social Council for 2010, General Assembly Official Records, Sixty-fifth session.


Official Records of the Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2015, General Assembly Official Records, Seventieth Session.


Official Records of the Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2014, General Assembly Official Records, Sixty-ninth session.


Official Records of the Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2011, General Assembly Official Records, Sixty-sixth session.


Official Records of the Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2012, General Assembly Official Records, Sixty-seventh session.

Official Records of the Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2013, General Assembly Official Records, Sixty-eighth session.

There is a growing global consensus in favour of family-based alternatives to institutional care for children. No residential institution --no matter how well meaning-- can replace the family...

This is the annual report of the Economic and Social Council submitted to the General Assembly on its 2016 session.

This is the annual report submitted to the General Assembly by the Economic and Social Council on its 2017 session.

This Innocenti Insight looks at how children with disabilities and their families fare in the rapidly changing environment of this wide region, since transition in the early 1980’s. It builds upon the...

Trafficking in human beings is increasingly understood as a major and worldwide human rights violation and development issue. UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre new Insight Trafficking in Human Beings...

This is the annual report submitted to the General Assembly by the Economic and Social Council on its 2019 session.

This study provides a critical and constructive analysis of how far the international community and individual states have come in their efforts to establish the normative, legal, and institutional...

The Convention on the Rights of the Child introduced for the first time in an international human rights treaty, the concept of the ‘evolving capacities’ of the child. This principle recognizes that...

The present study describes the evolution of childhood in Italy and the emergence of a new culture of the city. It analyses the consideration given to the Child Friendly Cities initiative and in...

The present publication reviews the problem of non-registration in conflict-affected countries while drawing on case studies to analyze successful or promising initiatives to ensure registration. The...

The study analyses how the Philippines national Child Friendly Movement has enhanced the capacity of local governments, communities and young people to fulfil the rights of the poorest children. The...