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Celebrating the International Day of Play 2025
On June 11, 2025, the second International Day of Play was celebrated across the world. This year’s theme, “Choose Play – Every Day,” reminds us all to make daily choices that value and prioritise play in children’s lives. To mark this important day, we invited all our partners to celebrate with the children they work…
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Breed gedragen oproep tot stop op alle adoptieprocedures en betere steun geadopteerden
Sinds 21 mei mogen er geen nieuwe interlandelijke adoptieprocedures meer worden gestart. Na een jarenlange strijd van geadopteerden, organisaties en klokkenluiders voor erkenning van de structurele misstanden en ongelijkheden binnen het interlandelijke adoptiesysteem, waar ook ICDI een belangrijke bijdrage aan leverde, lijkt het einde nu in zicht. Echter, de adoptieprocedures die al gestart zijn, mogen…
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Ten new children-led projects to celebrate ICDI’s 30th anniversary!
This year, ICDI is celebrating an important milestone – its 30th anniversary! To celebrate this special occasion, ICDI is supporting ten mini-projects about climate action, developed and implemented by children and young people. For ICDI, it is essential to ensure that children and young people, particularly girls, have a voice in decisions regarding climate change.…
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Nederland stopt met (nieuwe) interlandelijke adopties
Een kind uit het buitenland adopteren mag niet meer, heeft demissionair minister Weerwind (Rechtsbescherming) besloten. Hiermee komt een einde aan enkele jaren van ‘heen-en-weer beleid’ en worden kinderrechten eindelijk centraal gezet. Lopende adoptieprocedures mogen nog wel worden afgerond. Dit besluit is een overwinning voor de vele geadopteerden, organisaties en klokkenluiders die, soms al decennia lang,…
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Climate Action: Series Launch and March for Climate & Justice
Climate change is undoubtedly one of the main challenges affecting our world. It also has profound affect on children’s lives and well-being. Contributing to our mission to exchange knowledge on issues that affect the rights and well-being of children, ICDI is launching a series of articles about how children’s lives are being affected by climate…
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Joint Statement on the Forcible Transfer, Deportation, and Adoption of Children from Ukraine by Russia
The forcible transfer, deportation and adoption of children from Ukraine, resulting in permanently separating children from their families, communities and culture, is a clear violation of their human rights and of international humanitarian law, and poses a substantial threat to their safety and well-being as well as to their sense of identity and belonging. ICDI condemns these practices and,…
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Global Joint Statement on Supporting Children and Their Families During the Ongoing Crises in Syria and Türkiye
ICDI has signed the Global Joint Statement on Supporting Children and Their Families During the Ongoing Crises in Syria and Türkiye promoted by the Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN). Together with more than 30 international organisations we call on governments, local authorities, and donors to direct funds and efforts to support all young children and families affected by…
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The role of INGOs: ICDI’s approach described
Recently, we came across an online article (“International Non-Governmental organisations (INGO friends), it’s time to reimagine our role. What better time to do it than at the start of a new year?“ by Dylan Mathews –CEO at Peace Direct) in which the author describes alternative roles that INGOs might play in future international cooperation, and we were happily surprised to…
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COP27: ICDI’s take on climate change and children’s lives
Introduction to COP27 The UN has been bringing together almost every country on earth for global climate summits for nearly three decades on the so-called “COP”, which stands for “Conference of the Parties“. World leaders, policymakers and intergovernmental organisations are involved in reaching an agreement on how to tackle climate change together. The COP takes…
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ICDI joins and supports the ‘Orange the World Campaign’
This global campaign aims to end violence against women and girls and takes place annually from 25 November, the International Day or the Elimination of Violence Against Women to 10 December, International Human Rights Day. Through our projects we work on empowering girls and strengthening girls and boys while investing in their knowledge, skills and…
