Policy Paper

Lumos has endorsed this joint call for a moratorium on intercountry adoption in response to the conflict in Ukraine. In line with the Ukrainian Government’s ...

On 24 March, the European Commission adopted its first encompassing EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child, aimed at mainstreaming children’s right throughout all ...

March 24 marked an important date for the rights of the child. The European Commission released the new EU Strategy on the Rights of the ...

The EU must prioritise social inclusion in its COVID-19 Recovery - Urgent call for targets and safeguards for investments in social inclusion and the shift ...

Thousands of children in Ukraine with disabilities, developmental disorders, illnesses, or from disadvantaged social backgrounds are deprived of their human rights and grow up without ...

Lumos calls on the Portuguese EU Presidency to recognise the risk of trafficking for children that are in institutional care, including the role of the ...

This paper outlines how children with disabilities end up in institutional care and explains how growing up in an institution is particularly harmful to this ...

Following the EU’s acknowledgement of the harm caused by institutionalisation and its commitment to supporting the shift from institutional to family and community-based care, Lumos ...

Millions of children around the world live in institutions – including so-called “orphanages”, residential special schools and reception centres – that expose them to a ...