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On 26 January 2012, the 41st National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria passed a law on the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Up until now, there have been 109 ratifications of the Convention. So far, 19 EU m...
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Since its inception in 2001, the Youth Empowerment and Partnership Programme (YEPP) has implemented an innovative approach that brings together foundations, municipalities and local actors to work in a systematic way that addresses complex social challeng...
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The European Commission is inviting individuals, organizations and institutions that follow policy debate in the field of employment and social affairs, as well as those involved in national and EU policy-making or implementation, to contribute to the per...
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The core aim of the project Supporting life after institutional care was to promote the autonomy of young people leaving residential care and their access to local services and opportunities, in order to increase their abilities to cope with the challenge...
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On the 18th of January Amici dei Bambini organized in Brussels the expert meeting "Supporting life after institutional care" in order to share the outcomes and the extensive experiences arising out a social experimentation project co-financed by the Europ...
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Greece's financial crisis has made some families so desperate they are giving up the most precious thing of all - their children.One morning a few weeks before Christmas a kindergarten teacher in Athens found a note about one of her four-year-old pupils."...
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The Belgium-based Children's Rights Knowledge Centre (in Dutch: Kenniscentrum Kinderrechten, abbreviated as KeKi) has launched the first part of a new children's rights database. At present, the database contains legal instruments and important policy doc...
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Eurodiaconia outlines some of the major obstacles migrants face in accessing their social rights and make recommendations for the EU and member states to improve migrants' access to social rights and to prevent situations of social exclusion and poverty o...
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Unfortunately it's something we hear all too often - another business closing down.
Adoption Alliance, one of Colorado's most reputable adoption agencies, has just announced they're closing their doors after 22 years in business.
"We are so saddened,...
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The new 'Youth Opportunities Initiative', adopted by the Commission, calls on Member States to work on preventing early school leaving; helping youngsters develop skills relevant to the labour market; ensuring work experience and on-the-job training and h...
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The event, planned for next 18th January in Brussels, is organised in the framework of a social experimentation project promoted by Amici dei Bambini and co-financed by the European Commission (DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities) under ...
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Last week in a hearing organised by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) on how to better involve civil society in the regulation of financial markets, the EESC President, Staffan Nilsson, encouraged the European institutions, member states a...
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Russia's ombudsman for child rights, Pavel Astakhov, said on Saturday he did not rule out that a moratorium for adoption of Russian children by U.S. citizens may be imposed.
"It is not ruled out that after the joint activities with the Prosecutor-General...
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Under the European Union DAPHNE programme, the multi-EU country project entitled "Child Abandonment and its Prevention" held its one day conference in Warsaw on 5-6 December. Organised by the Nobody's Children Foundation, the event presented outcomes so f...
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Entitled 'Fundamental rights of migrants in an irregular situation in the European Union', the report has been launched at the 2011 Fundamental Rights Conference, which deals with the theme ‘Dignity and rights of irregular migrants'.
The 2011 Fundament...
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ESN was in Zagreb at the conference on "Models of foster care" organised by the Forum for Quality Foster Care of Children, UNICEF and the Croatian Ministry of Health and Welfare. The conference follows the adoption of the new Foster Care Act in Croatia in...
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Eurochild concludes Annual Conference with a call for action to the European Union and the Member States.
Europe is facing difficult times but the turmoil must not jeopardise investment in children and families otherwise the losses in human and socia...
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Governments should strengthen laws and strategies to end violence against children, a coalition of children's rights organisations said in a new report released.
The report, Five Years On: a global update on violence against children, reveals how desp...
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A few days before the International Children's Day on 20 November, the General Assembly of the United Nations cleared the way for an individual complaints procedure for children. With the procedure, children and young people will have the opportunity t...
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Eurochild drafted specific amendments to the new legislative proposal for a Programme on Social Change and Innovation, one of the regulations under discussion in the framework of the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2014-2020.
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