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The government of Rwanda has announced that effective today, August 31, 2010, the Ministry of Gender and Family Protection is suspending all new applications for international adoption.
MGFP states that it is taking this step as part of Rwand...
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The China Center for Adoption Affairs has announced the creation of a "Special Focus" adoption category, to begin on September 1. In keeping with CCAA's emphasis on placing waiting children (children with identified special needs or older children), Speci...
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Pleegzorg Vlaanderen vzw, the umbrella association for foster care services in Flanders/Belgium, is organising a European conference on Foster Care in Leuven, Belgium.
Foster Care is the strongest growing area in Flemish welfare, with registrati...
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Belgium has made the fight against child poverty a priority of its EU Presidency mandate. Eurochild has developed therefore a scoreboard to assess the achievements of the EU Belgian Presidency in 6 months time.
The scoreboard will have a spec...
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The story of Munir - an Egyptian orphan placed under the kafala that can not enter in Italy where his family is living - brings the attention on an alarming phenomena, children abandonment in North African Countries. UNICEF's statistics (December 2009) s...
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EveryChild Ukraine is calling for support from local and international NGOs for the appeal against the Implementing Order of the Prime Minister of Ukraine, issued on 23 June 2010. This Order calls for revival and further development of childcare residen...
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Nothing for children without listening to children! Children themselves are part of the solution not part of the problem. And they proved to have very clear insights of what they want during the Eurochild children's meeting, which has taken place from 11 ...
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The 7th Meeting of the China-EU Round Table will take place on 21-22 July 2010 in Chongqing, China. The agenda includes, for the first time, a discussion on the Rights of the Child.
Ms Jillian Van Turnhout, Member of the Economic and Social Commit...
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On Thursday 16 and Friday 17 September 2010, Pleegzorg Vlaanderen vzw, the umbrella association for foster care services in Flanders/Belgium, is organising a European conference on Foster Care in Leuven, Belgium: "Taking Care of Foster Care".
Th...
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The European Union deemed the Hague Convention of 1996 an essential tool for protecting children's rights in situations of international "care" and involving more Countries. The European Council has, in fact, adopted a decision urging Member States to s...
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Ambassador Mark Gitenstein told AFP news in Romania that he "would like to see a change in the Romanian law on adoptions, so that children can be adopted more easily and quickly, whether adopted by Romanians or foreigners.
Because I believe that i...
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The European Social Network draws the work of its working group on deinstitutionalisation to a close after its final meeting on 3-4 June held in Sofia, Bulgaria. ESN members met in Sofia to discuss the situation of children in children's homes and special...
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Italy is under test because has not respected the European Union Council indications to ratify an important instrument for the protection of children: the 1996 Hague Convention. For this reason Italy has been called by the European Council on Monday, July...
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Amici dei Bambini has been working on the topic for many years in a very positive collaboration with European Commission: starting from previous projects and outputs (for instance latest "Guidelines for care-leavers' social inclusion" available at www.chi...
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Amici dei Bambini launched in January 2010 the 18-month research project "The Child's right to a family: foster care under the lens", financed by the Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Programme of the European Commission. The general aim of the project...
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"Protecting children in child protection system" is a two-year project financed by the Daphne III Programme of the European Commission and involving Italy, Bulgaria and Romania. The project aims at allowing social care providers (public, local authoriti...
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Millions of children live and grow up in the world without parental care. Millions of children live in institutes very often in poor conditions and subject to violence. Millions of young people without parental care suffer of social exclusion when left in...
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European Open Days to talk about inter-country adoption will be held the 28-29 October in Oslo (Norway) by the European network Euradopt. The network's aim is to advocate intercountry adoption as an option in child welfare when pursued in the best interes...
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To live in a family environment that cares about sustainable development and is also engaged with community life enable children to grow up as involved members of a liveable and fair world.
Families in particular, through the ways they live, mo...
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The Better Care Network is pleased to share the launch of its newly available online portal: theBetter Care Network Toolkit! Available at: http://bettercaretoolkit.org/bcn/toolkit/
Worldwide child care practitioners face increasing challenges...
