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As of this Fact Sheet, Serbia has no comprehensive deinstitutionalization strategy. The primary reason children in Serbia end up in care is the neglect of their parents. Family based care has contributed significantly to deinstitutionalization reform in Serbia.
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.
Meant to highlight the maxim that every child deserves the best that we all have to give; this book provides a review of progress made since The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It contains reports from 21 countries on the status of the rights of the child. The reporting countries are: Australia, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Japan, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Solomon Islands, Spain, the Netherlands, the UK, the USA, Uzbekistan and Venezuela. There are no reports from Africa.
At the time of publication, 195 countries had…
This book is designed to help children and young people understand what abuse and neglect are, and who to ask for help if it happens to them or to someone they know. The book is written in the Serbian context and is available in English and Serbian. The book defines abuse and neglect including physical violence, corporal punishment, emotional harm, verbal violence, humiliation, peer isolation, electronic bullying, sexual violence and sexual abuse, verbal sexual violence, physical and emotional neglect, and more, and provides examples of these forms of abuse and…
This book is designed to help children and young people understand what abuse and neglect are, and who to ask for help if it happens to them or to someone they know. The book is written in the Serbian context and is available in English and Serbian. The book defines abuse and neglect including physical violence, corporal punishment, emotional harm, verbal violence, humiliation, peer isolation, electronic bullying, sexual violence and sexual abuse, verbal sexual violence, physical and emotional neglect, and more, and provides examples of these forms of abuse and…
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…
The Project "Developing community based services for children with disabilities and their families’’ was developed in close cooperation among UNICEF and the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Policy of the Republic of Serbia (MoLESP) with the overall objective to strengthen policy frameworks, institutional mechanisms and capacities so that community-based services supporting children with disabilities could be developed and are responsive to the needs of these children and their families. The main purpose of this final, summative evaluation is to …
On 10 September 2014, UNICEF and the Permanent Mission of Bulgaria co-hosted a high level Lunchtime Discussion on the right of children below three years to live in a caring and supportive family environment: examples from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The discussion took place on the margins of the September meeting of the UNICEF Executive Board and brought together over 80 participants, including members of the UNICEF Executive Board, representatives of the Permanent Missions to the UN from the CEE/CIS region, international organizations, NGOs, high level UNICEF and…
In this paper, Save the Children International reviews the implementation of the UN Guidelines on the Alternative Care of Children in the Western Balkan Countries of Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The report reviews the current situation and accomplishments in the process of reforming the child welfare systems in these countries. The paper offers a regional perspective and recommendations for decision makers, practitioners, and other interested parties for further development of the child welfare system in accordance with the UN guidelines on alternative care and in…