Collaborative on Global Children's Issues

Religious belief systems and practices have justified or opposed the separation of children from families in a variety of historical and regional contexts.

Extreme poverty, inadequate access to social services, conflict, disaster, disability, forced labor, discrimination, and human rights violations have led to millions of children living outside of family care.

Hundreds of thousands of children are leaving their homes, either with family members or on their own, experiencing internal displacement, and attempting to cross borders throughout the Americas.

Nearly half of the world’s children are at an extremely high risk of experiencing negative effects from climate change, with significant implications for their well-being across their lifetime.