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This presentation was given at Disability Rights International and the European Network on Independent Living's webinar on the right of all children to a family by Dr. Joan Kaufman, Director of Research of the Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Professor at the Department of Psychiatry of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The presentation outlines the Consensus Statement Position on Group Care for Children and Adolescents of the American Orthopsychiatric Association and reviews the research on the…
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This article reports the findings of a multi-country study of medical professionals' perceptions and evaluations of children. The primary aim of the study was to establish the perceptions medical professionals working in three Eastern European countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova) hold toward children identified as “typical”, “at-risk” and “with disability”. A second aim was to explore the existence of country-level differences in medical professionals' perceptions of children. The third aim was to examine the pattern of associations between attitudes toward children and a change…
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child during the seventy-fifth session (15 May 2017 - 02 Jun 2017) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Committee’s 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.
This report provides a summary of work undertaken by Lumos - together with governmental authorities, international partners, local medical professionals and families - to ensure that all children born with hydrocephalus receive the life-saving treatment they need, and which is their fundamental human right.
This report includes a definition of hydrocephalus and its impact on children. It describes the standard treatment and provides a case study that discusses Lumos' work in Bulgaria. The report includes a brief discussion of the situation in Europe where access to treatment is…
Article 7 of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) states that every child has “the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents.” When a child is abandoned, this right is violated. Infants and young children are those most at risk of being abandoned There is a distinct lack of research in understanding the extent, causes, and consequences of child abandonment. Such studies are essential in order to develop effective prevention programs and strategies aimed at protecting children most vulnerable in the European society.
This comprehensive manual provides an overview of…
The European Declaration on the Health of Children and Young People with Intellectual Disabilities and their Families: Better Heath, Better Lives outlines ten priorities for action aimed at ensuring healthy and full lives for these children and their families. The purpose of this paper is to provide background information and offer pragmatic steps in relation to priority no. 3: “Transfer care from institutions to the community”. The paper was produced in preparation for the conference in Bucharest, Romania 26-27 November, 2010.
The paper includes a statement on the impact of…
Day care centers for children with disabilities, further referred to as DCCD, are child protection services aiming at preventing child abandonment and institutionalization, by providing, during daytime, activities such as care, education, habilitation-rehabilitation, recreation-socializing, counseling, development of independent life skills, school and professional guidance etc. for children, and support, counseling, education activities for parents or legal representatives, as well as for other individuals having children in care.
The services provided by DCCD are complementary to the…
Shortly after Nicolar Ceauscu was overthrown on December 22, 1989, the world was exposed for the first time to the shocking images of Romania's orphans, especially its children with disabilities and babies with AIDS. These children, numbering over 100,000, live for the most part in institutions - bleak, understaffed orphanages built by the Ceausescu government to deal with the consequences of its policy of coercively raising the birth rate.
In 1990, the world learned about a secret network of prison-like institutions housing thousands of children in Romania. Today, big orphanages are beginning to close as alternatives such as smaller residential homes, mother-child shelters, foster care, and family counseling take hold. Unwanted children were objects to hide and control. Today, Romania is putting the child’s well-being and family support at the center of social policy.
This is the story of how organized human compassion, international political pressure, a willing national government, and local non-governmental organizations…
This report is the product of an 18-month investigation by Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) into the human rights abuses of children with disabilities in Romania. This report documents a broad range of atrocious conditions for children with disabilities inside Romania’s institutions. While Romania has reduced its orphanage population and created foster care placements for many children, the reforms have left behind children with disabilities. This report documents serious human rights violations against children with disabilities in an institution for babies and in adult…