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News - According to a report prepared by the Center for Mental Health, girls who are imprisoned are at greater risk of self-harm. The challenges they face are the procrastination and pervasive experience of abuse and adversity that befell them. According to the report, another…
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Webinar - About the webinar: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ABANDONED CHILDREN BECOME ADULTS? When they become 18 (or when they graduate from secondary school), young people raised in alternative care have to take their lives in their own hands. The state has…
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News - According to children's rights advocates, new legislation aimed at placing children with foster families will not bring about real change. The Czech Republic is the last country in the…
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News - SOS The Children's Villages provided information on the backlog in deinstitutionalization, the operation of more than 80 closed institutions, the lack of educational criteria for quality care, and the inhibition of institutionalization of the lives of…
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News - UNICEF Child Rights Officer Viola Szlankó summarized how an epidemiological emergency affects child protection care in a new UNICEF blog post. Most of the children in child protection care have been removed from their families due to abuse, neglect, and violence, and it is…
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News - The reform of the child protection system has achieved significant progress in Romania over the past decades. Starting from a child protection system with 100,000 children institutionalised in 600 institutions at the end of 1989, it currently has 181 institutions that…
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Multimedia - We are sharing this video material with interviews conducted at last month's International Conference Deinstitutionalization of Childcare: Investing in Change. In the video, Professor Nathan Fox, Professor Charles Nelson III and Dr. Charles…
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News - The Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (MLSP) sent their views on the findings of the Disability Rights International report, which was presented last week, to news website Dnevnik. The Ministry called the findings tendentious, unrepresentative, and aimed at…
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News - Balkan Insight reported on Disability Rights International's (DRI) critique of the lack of significant change in the ways in which children with disabilities are cared for, despite the recent move towards deinstitutionalisation. According to DRI, the conditions of group…
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News - A declaration on ‘Protecting children in out-of-home care from sexual exploitation and sexual abuse’ has been adopted in Nicosia, Cyprus, on 18 October by the Lanzarote Committee. The declaration’s main concepts include: ‘Out-of-home care’ represents all…
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News - Like all socialist countries in the former Soviet bloc, Bulgaria developed a state-based child care system in the second half of the 20th century. This system was based on the socialist ideology which allowed the state to control families and “shape” future…
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Event - Mental Disability Rights Initiative of Serbia and the Citizens' Association FemPlatz are inviting you to a two-day training on preventing violence against women with disabilities in residential institutions, which will be implemented on
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Online library - The Opening Doors for Europe’s Children released recommendations as part of their advocacy effort to support and inform negotiations on the 2021-2027 EU budget. They are campaigning to support the European Commission’s proposals for the regulations on MFF 2021-2027…
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Event - Coram Children's Legal Centre (CCLC) invites professionals and practitioners who work with children in justice, residential care or detention settings to take part in a free, three-day practical skills-based training course on topics relating to children’s rights, child…
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Multimedia - Hope and Homes for Children in Bosnia and Herzegovina  published info-graphic with data on placement of the children withot parental care in the area of Federation of BiH Despite all undertaken efforts to raise awareness on harmful consequences on children's…
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Online library - Countries in the CEECIS region have traditionally relied heavily on formal care for children. For the most vulnerable families, placing a child in an institution is a choice guided both by necessity and love, and sometimes even encouraged by the…
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News - This organization provides a pan-European platform which emphasizes on the strengthening of familial units and the elimination of institutional care. Furthermore, this organization seeks to act in unison with the global human rights organization, Mental Disability…