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This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Committees' recommendations on the issues of Family Environment and Alternative Care as well as other care relevant issues 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.
The Government of the Russian Federation has submitted its fourth and fifth combined report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (dated 3rd June 2011), which is due to be examined by the Committee on the Rights of the Child at its 65th Session, taking place between 13-31 January 2014.
This documents provides the care-related sectiions of the report.
Of particular note:
116. The activities of the foster family, which is a form of bringing up children deprived of parental…
Russia is home to one of the fastest-growing AIDS epidemics in the world, but the government has done little to address the problem. A growing number of HIV-positive pregnant women and new mothers must make a very difficult choice: whether or not to keep their children. Shunned by society, these women are vulnerable to discrimination on many fronts: access to health care, employment and education. Many are dependent on drugs and have no access to rehabilitation programs. Still others are living on the brink of poverty. With little or no means to provide for themselves, many find…
EveryChild is an international development charity working in 17 countries with a strategic focus on children without parental care. This document outlines EveryChild’s approach to the growing problem of children without parental care by defining key concepts, analysing the nature and extent of the problem, exploring factors which place children at risk of losing parental care, and examining the impact of a loss of parental care on children’s rights. It also provides principles for good practice in trying to reduce the number of children without parental…