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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …