Child Protection in Europe - Update #138

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.0. .0. .0. Top News » .0. .0. .0. .0. Europe Mario speaks out at largest human rights gathering in Europe 10 Oct 2011 Warsaw, 5-6 October 2011: On the occasion of the 11th OSCE Human Dimension Implementation meeting, the project Mario partners drew the attention of the 56 participating states to the child protection concerns identifi... Read More .0. .0. .0. .0. News on the net - Headlines » .0. .0. .0. .0. Russia Russian families sue child mix-up hospital 10 Oct 2011 'BBC News' reports that two families in Russia are suing their local maternity hospital for giving them the wrong babies 12 years ago. Read More .0. .0. .0. .0. International Stateless Children: Denied the Right to Have Rights 9 Oct 2011 'Open Society Foundations' reports that the blight of statelessness affects an estimated 12 million people around the world. Read More .0. .0. .0. .0. UK Unicef criticises Britain for jailing children over riots 9 Oct 2011 'The Guardian' reports that Unicef has criticised the UK judicial system for locking up children allegedly involved in the August riots and warned ministers that they are likely to be in breach of their UN obligations... Read More .0. .0. .0. .0. Serbia 14,000 children live below poverty line 9 Oct 2011 'B92' reports that 14,000 children live below the poverty line in Serbia. Roma, children without parental care and disabled children are in the worst position. Read More .0. .0. .0. .0. Sweden UN bashes Swedish children's rights 8 Oct 2011 'The Local' reports that For the fifth time, Sweden has been criticised by the UN's Committee on the Rights of the Child for not having introduced their children's rights convention as Swedish law. Read More .0. .0. .0. .0. UK Details of young offender deaths revealed 6 Oct 2011 'Children and Young People Now' reports that Youth Justice Board released fresh information on the incidents which details of how 23 children under the supervision of youth offending teams died in the community last y... Read More .0. .0. .0. .0. Europe Four countries urged to act against choosing babies' gender 5 Oct 2011 'Euronews' reports that parents actively selecting their baby's sex in some countries has raised serious concern in the human rights defence body the Council of Europe. Read More .0. .0. .0. .0. UK Children's commissioner hails 'profound' transformation in care for young people in Wales 5 Oct 2011 'WalesOnline' reports that hildren's Commissioner Keith Towler said that the landscape of child protection had "changed immeasurably" in the past decade and that children in care were safer than ever before. Read More .0. .0. .0. .0. Turkey Turkey Fails in Children's Rights 4 Oct 2011 'Bianet' reports that on the World Children's Day 2011, a part of imprisoned children in Turkey is still being kept in adult prisons. Read More .0. .0. .0. .0. Belarus Belarus Makes Plans to Help Older Orphans 4 Oct 2011 'SOS Children's Villages' published on its website that Belarusian officials are creating a database to follow-up on orphaned children up to the age 23. Read More .0. .0. .0. .0. News from the field - Headlines » .0. .0. .0. .0. Moldova Children win over the bad weather at Fair Play event 8 Oct 2011 September 24th, 2011, Suruceni, Moldova: On Saturday, more than 120 children between 7 and 11, forty parents and twenty animators participated at a FAIRPLAY Event. Because of the bad weather the event didn't take plac... Read More .0. .0. .0. .0. Moldova Child Protection Adviser supports the Moldovan team 8 Oct 2011 Neil Whettam started to work as a regional child protection adviser for Terre des hommes in July, 2011. His responsibilities are to support, strengthen and develop the child protection safety net in Tdh's countries of... Read More .0. .0. .0. .0. Albania Children's assessment of child protection services 7 Oct 2011 Tirana, September 2011: Children views, experiences, beliefs and attitudes regarding the services they have received from Child Protection Workers have been collected and documented in a report that aimed at measuring... Read More .0. .0. .0. .0. Documents » .0. .0. .0. .0. Hungary Legislation, Rights Protection and Assistance 4 Oct 2011 MONA — Foundation MONA — Foundation for the Women of Hungary framed a publication, which was issued within the framework of the project "Development of interdisciplinary cooperation in Hungary to support the fight aga... Read More .0. .0. .0. .0. Image Galleries » .0. .0. .0. .0. Moldova MOVE Project Fair Play Event, Suruceni, Moldova, September 2011 11 Oct 2011 Read More .0.