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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 from Human Rights Watch focuses on the institutionalization of children with disabilities in Serbia. It is based on 118 in-depth interviews with children with disabilities and their families, disability advocates, staff of residential institutions for children with disabilities, and government officials. The report documents a range of issues experienced by children with disabilities in institutions in Serbia, including segregation, neglect, lack of parental/guardian involvement, lack of privacy, inappropriate medical treatment, lack of access to education, limited freedom of…
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. 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.
The reform of the social protection system in Serbia began after the change of government in 2000, with deinstitutionalization as one of the most important of these changes. This report gives an overview of implemented activities in the process of deinstitutionalization, identifying the main obstacles, effects, and achieved results. The overall objective of the report is to achieve greater understanding of the progress and shortcomings of the process of deinstitutionalization and transformation of social protection in Serbia, and to analyze relevant policies…
A major ministerial conference on ending the placement of children under three in institutional care was held in Sofia, Bulgaria on 21 and 22 November 2012. Organized by the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria in collaboration with UNICEF, it brought together representatives of twenty governments from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, experts from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, international and local NGOs and the academic world to discuss strategies and emerging good practices to support vulnerable families…