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UNICEF and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights will host a launch of two reports on Deinstitutionalisation on 28 June 2011.
Across Europe, including within the European Union, there are more than a million people living in long-term residential institutional care, often for life. In these settings their rights are often violated. It is a type of care found to be particularly harmful for children under the age of three.
Two international legal frameworks recently adopted: the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2010), and the…
In 2015 the world leaders made a decision to establish “End violence against children” global partnership and to eliminate all forms of violence against children by 2030 with the goal of making the following vision a reality: “a world where all children – girls and boys, grow up in an environment free from violence and exploitation”. Violence against children has an adverse effect on the child’s development, health and education. At the same time, it slows down economic development, causes damage to the human and social capital of a country. Aimed at contributing to prevention and elimination…
Based in Ankara, Turkey, Hayat Sende Derneği seeks to confront stigmatization and discrimination against children and youth under legal protection in Turkey through advocacy campaigns, lobbying, education and training, and social entrepreneurship and innovation projects. Hayat Sende has built a platform that offers youth from state institutions and other disadvantaged backgrounds a myriad of training and experience opportunities to develop their professional and life skills. Hayat Sende envisions a world in which children under legal protection live in loving and caring…
UNICEF's Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia coordinates and supervises UNICEF’s work in 22 countries and entities to ensure that no child is left out in our efforts to realize their rights. The Regional Office advocates at regional level for investment in children and for children-centred social policies.
The Transformative Monitoring for Enhanced Equity (TransMonEE) Database captures a vast range of data relevant to social and economic issues relevant to the situation and wellbeing of children, young people and women in countries of Central Eastern Europe and Commonwealth of independent States (CEE/CIS).
The 2013 version of the database contains over 400 social and economic indicators divided into 11 topics (Population, Marriage and Divorce, Fertility, Mortality, Health, Education, Child Protection, Crime, Social Protection, Child-wellbeing, Economics). Data collected and…