Course: Caring for Children Moving Alone: Protecting Unaccompanied and Separated Children

To assist you in the work you are undertaking particularly at this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, we would like to offer the selection of resources you will find on …

In this video you will hear from Sophie Etzold who is working as a Child Protection Officer for UNHCR in Uganda. Sophie tells us how UNHCR has been working through …

When we were developing this course, we asked different frontline workers what makes them happy about the work they do to support unaccompanied and separated children. In this video we …

In this video you can watch episode one of a drama that will run throughout the course. This drama is called ‘Aden’s Journey’. Each week you will be able to …

Thank you for participating in Week 1 of this course. We know it has been a lot of information but we hope you found it interesting. This week we thought …

On this course page we will consider some other international agreements that offer protection and support to children on the move including unaccompanied and separated children. These agreements can guide …

We recognise that offering support and alternative care to unaccompanied and separated children, and those who may have to be separated from parent/s and legal/customary caregivers they are travelling with, …

In this video we hear from Benyam Dawit Mezmur. Benyam is an academic who specialises in children’s rights law. He is a member of the United Nations Committee on the …

The UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children A principal focus of this course is how we can offer suitable alternative care to unaccompanied and separated children on the …

We have already considered some of the difficult situations children are moving away from. But understanding also the risks children face while they move across countries, and reach countries of …

In this video we hear from Gurvinder Singh. Gurvinder is the Child Protection Advisor for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC). He tells us about …

Let us also consider why some children also become separated from their parents or legal/customary caregiver while on their journey. This occurs, for example: During times of panic as, for …

In order to develop the most appropriate policies and services for unaccompanied and separated children on the move, it is essential we understand as much as possible about where children …

In this video produced by UNHCR, we hear the voices of children who became refugees and travelled by themselves in order to flee conflict. The children come from different countries …

As we noted on the previous course page, children leave home and travel as unaccompanied and separated children for different reasons. In this video produced by UNICEF, we learn about …