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The National Child Protection System and Alternative Child Care in Jordan

This report on the National Child Protection System and Alternative Child Care in Jordan was commissioned by SOS Children’s Villages International, Regional Office…

Care of Abandoned Children in Sunni Islamic Law: Early Modern Egypt in Theory and Practice

The concept of the best interests of the child comes into tension with premodern Islamic law with respect to the issue of adoption because Islamic law does not…