You are here: News
Secrétariat Général
Protéger les enfants et réunir les familles au-delà des frontières depuis 96 ans
UN Network on Migration: COVID-19 & Immigration Detention / May 2020
| 
The Working Group on Alternatives to Immigration Detention of the UN Network on Migration recently released practical recommendations with guidance for States and stakeholders on preventing and responding to COVID-19 in the context of immigration detention.
ISS-UNICEF project in Mexico: New activities despite complex times
| As part of its partnership under the joint project initiated in 2019, on 6 May, ISS and UNICEF gave together a remote training on residential care in times of COVID-19 in Mexico.
OPEN ONLINE COURSE – MOOC
| CARING FOR CHILDREN MOVING ALONE:
PROTECTING UNACCOMPANIED AND SEPARATED CHILDREN
STARTS 10 FEBRUARY 2020
LAUNCH: A guide for prospective adoptive parent(s), adoptive families and older adoptees
| Financial and other support to countries of origin linked to intercountry adoption: A guide for prospective adoptive parent(s), adoptive families and older adoptees.
ISS undertook its first mission to Baja California in the framework of its project with UNICEF Mexico
| From 18 – 20 November, ISS travelled to Tijuana and Mexicali, Mexico, to undertake an initial joint mission with UNICEF and RELAF, aimed at identifying the current situation of child protection and alternative care in the state of Baja California, including for children on the move.
Day of General Discussion 2020 of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
| As part of the Day of General Discussion on children without parental care that will be held by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva on September the 18th. A call for application to create two advisory team is launched. One committee will be composed of children (under 18) and the other of young people (18 to 25) concerned by alternative care.
ISS attended the international seminar on the protection of children across borders in Rabat (Morocco)
| On 14 and 15 November 2019, ISS participated in the international seminar organised by the Ministry of Justice in Morocco, with the technical support of UNICEF and the HCCH, and the financial support of the EU, in Rabat (Morocco).
Launch of the European Platform for Access to Personal and Family Rights (EPAPFR) on 12-13 March 2020 in Lyon, France
| An international conference in Lyon, France, will take place on 12 and 13 March 2020, during which the newly established European Platform for Access to Personal and Family Rights (EPAPFR) will be officially launched.
Fourth Congress of the Latin-American Care Leavers’ Network
| On 4 and 5 of November, the ISS/IRC's Regional Adviser for Latin America actively attended the Fourth Congress of the Red Latinoamericana de Egresados de Protección, which took place in Mexico City.
ISS at the first plenary meeting of the Steering Committee for the Rights of the Child of the Council of Europe
| ISS assisted as an observer to the first plenary meeting of the Committee for the Rights of the Child of the Council of Europe (CDENF) hold in Strasbourg from 4-6 February.
18- 20 November 2019
| ISS welcomes the planned activities at the Palais des Nations as part of the Celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
ISS Presentation
