Learn more about children’s issues and our work by checking out the following resources.
General – Child Protection
RESEARCH PAPERS
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
UN Children’s Rights and Business Principles, UNICEF, United Nations Global Compact & Save the Children
UN Global Compact Principles, United Nations Global Compact
Safeguarding Policy for Children and Vulnerable Young Adults, ChildHope, 2016
Child Protection Policy and Procedures, Friends-International, 2013
Children’s Rights in Policies and Codes of Conduct, UNICEF & Save the Children, 2013
A Guide for Business: How to develop a human rights policy, United Nations Global Compact Office & Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2011
Children are everyone’s business: Workbook 2.0, UNICEF, 2013
The State of the World’s Children, UNICEF, 2017
PSEA Implementation Quick Reference Handbook, CHS Alliance, 2017
WEBSITES
Friends-International: https://friends-international.org/
Save The Children Cambodia: https://cambodia.savethechildren.net/
Children are not tourist attractions: https://www.thinkchildsafe.org/thinkbeforevisiting/
UNICEF Cambodia: https://www.unicef.org/cambodia/
Lumos: https://www.wearelumos.org/
Next Generation Nepal: https://nextgenerationnepal.org/
Good Travels Advisor: http://www.goodtravels.org/
Child protection in the tourism industry
STUDIES
International Volunteering and child sexual abuse, Better Volunteering Better Care, 2016
Offenders on the move: Global Study in Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism, ECPAT International jointly with Defense for Children-ECPAT Netherlands, 2016
Street Children Profile Cambodia, Friends-International, 2015
Street Children Profile Bangkok, Friends-International, 2010
The Nature and Scope of the Foreign Child Beggar Issue (especially as related to Cambodian Child Beggars) in Bangkok, Friends-International, 2006
GUIDES
Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) Industry Criteria, Version 3, December 2016
Human Rights in Tourism: An Implementation Guideline for Tour Operators, Roundtable Human Rights in tourism, 2013
Know How Guide: Human Rights & the Hotel Industry, International Tourism Partnership, 2014
CSR Tools: Integrating children’s rights into your business, Corporate Social Responsibility, UNICEF Children’s Rights and Business team
Global Code of Ethics for Tourism (GCET), World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), 1999
Certification for sustainable tour operator, Travel Life
The Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism (The Code), available at http://www.thecode.org
ASEAN Homestay Standard, ASEAN, 2016
ASEAN Community Based Tourism Standard, ASEAN, 2016
15 Years of the UNWTO World Tourism Network on Child Protection: A Compilation of Good Practices, World Tourism Organization, 2014
GSTC Tour Operator Criteria, Global Sustainable Tourism Council, 2016
VIDEOS
Undercover Asia: Cambodia’s Child Predators, Channel News Asia, 2015
Don’t Give to Begging Children (In Khmer), Mission of the Week (Facebook page), March 2017
Orphanages
ARTICLES
Werner Gillioz, Emmanuelle. ‘Les Enfants Du Népal Ont Besoin de Soutien, Pas D’orphelinats’. Le Temps, May 17, 2015
Papi, Daniela. Why You Should Say No to Orphanage Tourism (And Tell All Tour Companies to Do the Same), The Huffington Post. Posted 20 November 2012
The business of orphanages: where do ‘orphans’ come from?, The Conversation, March 10 2015
Modern slavery and tourism: when holidays and human exploitation collide, The Conversation, July 19 2017
Moves to Stop Volunteering at Overseas Orphanages, Probono News Australia, September 13 2017
GUIDES
Moving Forward: Implementing the ‘Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children’, CELCIS, 2012
VIDEOS
Orphanage ‘recruited kids to get donations’, CNN, March 2017
Le tourisme des orphelinats, RTS, January 29 2017
Le tourisme des orphelinats – Interview, Emmanuelle Werner Gillioz, présidente Friends International Suisse, RTS, January 29 2017
Cambodia’s Scam Orphanages, The New York Times, June 16 2014
Orphanages as tourist attractions, France 24, Jun 3 2014
I want to go back to my family, Friends-International, Avril 9 2014
Cambodia’s Orphans Business, Aljazeera, June 27 2012
STUDIES
National estimation of children in residential care institutions in Cambodia: A modeling study, Authored by Lindsay Stark Beth L Rubenstein, Kimchoeun Pak, Sok Kosal, 2017
Mapping of Residential Care Facilities in the Capital and 24 Provinces of the Kingdom of Cambodia, UNICEF & Royal Cambodia Government, 2017
Better Volunteering Better Care, Orphanage volunteering – Why to say no, Better Volunteering Better Care, 2016
State of the World’s Children in Numbers: Every Child Counts, UNICEF, 2014
With the Best Intentions – Study of Attitudes Towards Residential Care in Cambodia, UNICEF & Royal Cambodia Government, 2011
Factsheet: Residential Care in Cambodia, UNICEF, 2011
Keeping Children out of Harmful institutions, Save the Children, 2009
Alternative Care of Children, Resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly, UNICEF, 2009
The Nature and Scope of the Foreign Child Beggar Issue (especially as related to Cambodian Child Beggars) in Bangkok, Friends-International, 2006
A Last Resort: The growing concern about children in residential care, Save the Children, 2003
Families, Not Orphanages, Better Care Network, John Williamson and Aaron Greenberg, 2010
The paradox of orphanage volunteering, Next Generation Nepal, 2014
Voluntourism
ARTICLES
Volunteer tourism: What’s wrong with it? The Herald, December 28 2017
Overseas orphanages under scrutiny as Australians told to withdraw support, Sydney Morning Herald, August 16 2017
Push to end orphanage volunteering as World Challenge stops trips for students, ABC News, September 14 2017
Seven Questions You Should Ask before You Volunteer Abroad, The Guardian, Banning-Lover, Rachel January 4, 2016.
The Problem with Little White Girls, Boys and Voluntourism, The Huffington Post, Biddle, Pippa, February 23 2014
Voluntourism Is a “Waste of Time and Money” – and Gappers Are Better off Working in Britain, The Independent – News & Advice, Brown, Jonathan, October 24 2014
Volunteer Holidays: How to Find an Ethical Project, The Guardian, Coldwell, Will, January 27 2016
The Voluntourist’s Dilemma, The New York Times Magazine, Kushner, Jacob., March 25 2016
Viewpoint: Is Gap Year Volunteering a Bad Thing?, BBC Magazine, Papi, Daniela, May 1 2013
Volunteer Travel: Experts Raise Concerns over Unregulated Industry, The Guardian, Purvis, Katherine and Lindsey Kennedy, January 26 2016.
Tourisme humanitaire: la vrai fausse pitié, Libération, Rousseau, Noémie , August 15 2016.
Le Business de La Pitié, Le Temps, Werner Gillioz, Emmanuelle July 1 2014.
Boom in ‘voluntourism’ sparks concerns over whether the industry is doing good, Reuters, June 29 2015
Before you pay to volunteer abroad, think of the harm you might do, The Guardian, November 14 2010
As ‘Voluntourism’ Explodes In Popularity, Who’s It Helping Most?, NPR, July 31 2014
Gap yah volunteers not all bad, says new report, The Guardian, March 19 2015
Travelers inspired to do good while seeing the world, NBC News, May 9 2014
STUDIES
From Volunteering to Voluntourism, Challenges for the Responsible Development of a Growing Travel Trend, ECPAT Germany, Tourism Watch, Bread for the World, Working Group, 2015
International volunteers’ perceptions of children’s residential care in Cambodia, Friends-International, 2015
International Volunteering from the United States between 2004 and 2012, Benjamin J. Loug, Center for Social Development, June 2013
It takes a global village: Troubling discourses of global citizenship in United Planet’s voluntourism, SAGE Journals, Research Article, March 16, 2015
International Volunteering Filling in the Gaps, International Volunteering Report 2014, Tourism Concern, Campaign called “Should you volunteer overseas?”
The role of volunteering in sustainable development, Institute of Development Studies (IDS). 2015
GUIDES
International Voluntourism Guidelines for Commercial Tour Operators, International Eco Tourism Society, 2012
Orphanage Volunteering – Why to say no, Better Volunteering, Better Care, 1 May 2016
Volunteer Tourism Guidelines, ABTA, November 2016 (Paywall)
Tips for Having Meaningful Volunteer Experiences, Good Travels Advisor, 2016