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El estudio fue orientado al conocimiento de buenas prácticas en la transformación de servicios de cuidado residencial a familiar y comunitarios de la niñez y adolescencia en Guatemala. Los aportes de y reflexiones del personal de los hogares de protección públicos y privados contribuyeron a crear un espacio de puesta en común, apoyando la búsqueda de información para conocer las buenas prácticas que se están implementando en estos hogares en la promoción y restitución del derecho de los niños, niñas y adolescentes a vivir en un entorno familiar, seguro y sostenible y que responda a su Interés…
Cambiando la Forma en que Cuidamos (o sus siglas en inglés, CTWWC) Guatemala realizó un estudio con el objetivo de identificar y documentar buenas prácticas en la prestación de servicios de cuidado residencial, con el objetivo de transformar los servicios de cuidado a la niñez en Guatemala.
Algunas buenas prácticas identificadas para los hogares de protección (orfanatos):
El 100% reportó trabajo para la restitución del derecho a la familia y el desarrollo del proceso de reunificación. El 70% tiene un perfil definido de atención especializada. El 80% prepara a los niños para una vida…
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Committee on the Right of the Child at their recent examinations of Guatemala's report. The Committees' recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
One paragraph of note in the CRPD's 2016 Concluding Observations is:
74. The Committee…
Entre el 7 y 11 de marzo de 2017, investigadores de Disability Rights International (DRI) viajaron a Guatemala. Durante este viaje visitamos a los sobrevivientes del Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción (Hogar Seguro), una institución pública de Guatemala que albergaba a más de 700 niños y en la cual, el pasado 7 de marzo, se produjo el incendio el 7 de marzo de 2017 que ha cobrado la vida de más de 30 niñas (el número ha seguido incrementando en los últimos días). También visitaron a por lo menos a 43 sobrevivientes que fueron transferidos al Hogar de Abrigo y Bienestar Integral (una…
From March 7-11, 2017 Disability Rights International (DRI) visited Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción (Hogar Seguro), a public institution where more than 700 children were detained. DRI intereviewed the survivors of a fire that took place on March 7, 2017. This fire that killed more than three-dozen girl has gained international attention. In addition to Hogar Seguro, DRI visited several other institutions in Guatemala to interview survivors of the fire and assess the conditions of Guatemala's institutions.
DRI’s assessment finds that survivors of the fire at Hogar…
From Intercountry Adoption to Global Surrogacy: A Human Rights History and New Fertility Frontiers tackles the constantly changing landscape of intercountry adoption. Extracting on chronologic data, this book discusses the politics and practice of intercountry adoption starting with the state of international adoption to in the 1950s continuing to present-day adoption practice and protections. Chapters include: 1) Rescue, refugees, orphans and restitution; 2) The politics of adoption from Romania to Russia and what we know about children languishing in residential care…
This petition was submitted to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) by Disability Rights International and the Human Rights Office of the Arch-Bishop of Guatemala requesting precautionary measures, in accordance with article 25 of the IACHR rules of procedure, on behalf 334 children and adults with disabilities detained at the National Mental Health Hospital in Guatemala City (“Federico Mora” hospital). The petition documents the serious risks of physical and psychological harm of those detained at Federico Mora because (1) they…
Since 1986, American parents have adopted over 17,300 children from Guatemala. This study assessed the health, growth, and developmental status of 103 Guatemalan adopted children (48 girls; 55 boys) after arrival in the United States. Physical evidence suggestive of prenatal alcohol exposure and adequacy of vaccinations administered were also reviewed.
Retrospective chart review was conducted of 103 children who were evaluated after arrival in the United States in an international adoption specialty clinic, and a case-matched study was conducted of a subgroup of 50 children who…
The report documents the baseline study of institutions that provide care and shelter to institutionalized children and adolescents in Guatemala and helped determine the state of children and adolescents that live in those institutions. The following specific objectives were developed in order to achieve the general objective:
- To identify the number of institutions that provide care to institutionalized children and adolescents, the locations of these homes as well as their technical capacity, infrastructure and access to care resources.
- To determine the main…
Recent consultations undertaken by the ILO in Kenya, the Philippines and Guatemala have confirmed that there is little awareness about child labour issues among indigenous peoples; that previous child labour studies and research largely ignore indigenous communities; and that few programmes and projects address indigenous child labour.
It has, however, also become increasingly clear that indigenous children are disproportionately affected by the worst forms of child labour. Specific approaches are needed to effectively combat child labour among indigenous peoples.
The following…