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This report is prepared within the MONEE project of UNICEF Regional Office for CEE/CIS. It provides an overview of alternative care in Azerbaijan, including a system assessment of national child care and protection mechanisms and the legal system of children's rights and protection as well as quantitative data on the number of children in alternative care and the financing of the alternative care system.
In this video from United Aid for Azerbaijan, several experts and public officials discuss the importance of deinstitutionalization. The video covers the extreme problems of neglect in institutions and discusses attempts by UAFA to re-integrate children with families. The video discusses how Azerbaijan has called in foreign experts to help implement projects to improve the condition of children in institutional care.
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as part of its examination of the first periodic report of Azerbaijan under Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at its 125th and 126th meetings, held on 1 and 2 April 2014, respectively. The Committee’s recommendations on the issue of children and institutionalisation are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review…
On 29 March 2006, the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliev, signed the State Program on De-Institutionalisation and Alternative Care Services. This program comes at a time when Azerbaijan’s economy is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, and many other related reforms are under-way. There simply is no excuse today to keep children in institutionalized care when alternatives can be developed and families supported through improved wealth re-distribution systems.
The main goal of the Program is ‘to provide the formation and effective operation of the mechanisms of placing…
In Azerbaijan, internally displaced persons, refugee children, and asylum seekers are forced to bear the consequences of traumatic exposure to an armed conflict.
This report is a first analytical draft of the emerging protection problems for children in Azerbaijan, as seen from the perspectives of both service providers and service beneficiaries. The objectives of this report are to draft a map of the institutional system related to child welfare, and to identify the priority protection needs of children in Azerbaijan.
The first part of the report lists the levels of governance and the…
Azerbaijan still has problems in the field of protecting rights of children, the Head of the State Committee for Family, Women, and Children Issues Bahar Muradova said at the V All-Republican Forum of Azerbaijani Children held in Baku, Trend reports on Nov.18.
According to Muradova, there are still reports of early marriages.
"Another problem is violence against children," Muradova said.
She noted that special committees are functioning in the districts to combat these negative phenomena.
“The responsibility of parents…