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This chapter appears in Child Maltreatment in Residential Care: History, Research, and Current Practice, a volume of research examining the institutionalization of children, child abuse and neglect in residential care, and interventions preventing and responding to violence against children living in out-of-home care settings around the world.
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Although for the last two…
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.
TransMonEE is a database that captures a vast range of data on social and economic issues relevant to the situation and wellbeing of children, adolescents and women in 28 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Commonwealth of independent States and the European Union. TransMonEE is used to support national reforms for the advancement of children rights, inform sector strategies, measure trends and provide benchmarking for countries and sub-regions, and improve the quality of monitoring trends in the situation of children and women at the national level. This document includes inter-country…
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…
This report by Human Rights Watch is based on field research conducted in Bacău, Bucharest, Constanţa, Giurgiu, and Ilfov counties in February 2006, and follow-up telephone and email contacts through June 2006. Two Human Rights Watch researchers conducted individual interviews with thirty-five children and youth age sixteen to twenty living with HIV, as well as a group interview with nineteen children and youth living with HIV (representing nineteen of the twenty-four affiliates of the National Union of Organizations of Persons affected by HIV/AIDS (UNOPA), a…
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…
Although valuable national and local responses to HIV have been mounted, effective HIV treatment and prevention programmes in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have largely failed to reach those who are most vulnerable, in particular young people. The insidious consequence of this has been a hidden epidemic which disproportionately strikes young people, adolescents and children. The central challenge of responding to HIV in most countries of the region is the need to come to terms with an epidemic that mostly affects people deemed by society to be ‘delinquent’ or ‘anti-social’. Every day…
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…
According to official data, the number of children in need of social protection is on the increase in Moldova. Along with traditional categories of children at risk or in difficulty, new categories have emerged such as “social orphans”, children left without parental care and supervision in the community due to migration-out, street children, children which do not go to school, children which are victims of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation (including trafficking), children in conflict with the law, and children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
A significant number of children in…
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…