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Argentina rights organization identifies adopted son of couple disappeared during brutal 1976-1983 military dictatorship

Recovering my identity is for me a tribute to my parents,' Darroux Mijalchuk said at a press conference

Javier Matias Mijalchuk Darroux, the 130th grandson found after being stolen and illegally adopted during the last military regime (1976-1983), speaks next to an image depicting his mother, Elena Mijalchuk, during a press conference at Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo) human rights organization headquarters in Buenos Aires, June 13, 2019.EMILIANO LASALVIA/AFP/Getty Images

BUENOS AIRES — Argentine human rights group Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo divulged the identity on Thursday of the son of a couple disappeared during the nation’s brutal 1976 to 1983 military dictatorship.

With the discovery, the organization, which works to identify children of dissidents who were killed by Argentina’s government and reconnect them with their relatives, says it has now identified some 130 sons and daughters who were separated from their parents.

Human rights groups estimate that about 30,000 people were killed by Argentina’s military government, many of them tortured beforehand. Most were students, union leaders or dissidents who were murdered for their political beliefs.

In some cases, young children of the murdered were put up for adoption and were never told of their biological parents.

Javier Matías Darroux Mijalchuk, who was born in 1977, told reporters on Thursday that he knew he was adopted, but did not know who his parents were or the circumstances of his adoption, as he was only a few months old when his biological parents were taken by government forces.

While he said he felt comfortable with his adopted family, he began to suspect as an adult that he may have been the child of disappeared dissidents. That led him to seek out The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, whose members confirmed his suspicion.

“Recovering my identity is for me a tribute to my parents,” Darroux Mijalchuk said at a press conference.

He thanked his biological uncle, Roberto Mijalchuk, who he said had searched for him for 40 years. He said he will now seek to learn the fate of his parents, who were disappeared in 1977, and to find the biological sister he suspects he may have.

It is widely believed that there are still hundreds of adopted children of dissidents who still have not been identified. Efforts by The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo to identify the children of the disappeared have been helped in recent years by advances in DNA technology.

— Reporting by Miguel Lo Bianco; writing by Gram Slattery Editing by Susan Thomas

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Uganda: 100 Babies Dead - NGO Wants U.S. Missionary Prosecuted in Virginia

By Nontobeko Mlambo

Johannesburg — Missionary Renee Bach, who runs a local non-governmental organisation called Serving His Children in eastern Uganda, is being accused of representing herself as a doctor, and treating children in her care. She allegedly took children with malnutrition from local hospitals to "treat" them at her organisation - and some of them died.

Gimbo Zubeda and Kakai Rose from Masese in Jinja District alongside civil society organisation, Women's Probono Initiative, are suing Bach for the actions they allege led to the death of their children while in her care.

The two women say that they were led to believe that Renee Bach was a medical doctor and that her home was a medical facility as she was often seen wearing a white coat, a stethoscope and often administered medications to children in her care. They say they learned that Bach had no training at all in medicine after their children died. They also found out that in 2015, the District Health Officer had closed her facility and ordered her to not offer any treatment to any children.

So how then did an American missionary without any medical qualification end up allegedly performing medical procedures and giving treatment to children even after her facility was ordered to shut down?

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Jogellenesen elvettek egy kisfiút nevel?szüleit?l, és nem mondták meg, miért

They illegally took a little boy from his foster parents and did not tell him why

In August last year, a two-and-a-half-year-old boy was taken from his foster parents for reasons not yet clear. The child had been raised since he was nine days old, and according to his foster father, it had become a real little miracle. The prosecution found that there had been a number of offenses against foster parents by the guardianship authority and the child protection service, but the little boy was still unable to return to his usual environment.

Lacika was born in March 2016, and at the age of nine she was placed in temporary care by the territorially competent guardianship office, so the little boy was taken to his foster parents, Éva and Andras. Lacika was born with only 2 kilograms, kidney disease, nervous system problems, but her condition gradually improved, she communicated well by the age of two and a half, she already knew a few English words, she was an interested little boy. His father served his prison sentence, and his mother visited him only occasionally, but these occasions became less and less rare until the relationship was completely severed. However, a close relationship developed between the little boy and the foster parents, so the couple indicated that they wanted to adopt Lacika. That's when their calvary began.

The names in the article have been changed in order to protect the rights of those concerned and the young child as fully as possible.

On March 2, 2018, Évék wrote to the county child protection center and regional child protection specialist service (Do It) asking them to examine their suitability for adoption. Their application was forwarded to another county, where the child protection guardian is employed.

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Md. Azizul Alam is the National Project Director (NPD) of Strengthening Public Financial Management for Social Protection (SPFMSP) project and an Additional Secretary of Ministry of Finance of Bangladesh. He is the focal point for social protection, coordinate financing SSNPs, gender budget report, support disability, child focused budgeting.

 

Dr. Md. Ferdous Hossain is the Executive Director (ED) of Strengthening Public Financial Management for Social Protection (SPFMSP) Project, Finance Division, Ministry of Finance.In 1988 he joined in BCS administrative cadre as Assistant Commissioner and Magistrate. He has vast experience as Assistant Commissioner and Magistrate, Assistant Commissioner (Land), Nazaratte Deputy Collector (NDC) in the field administration. He has been working in different capacities like, Assistant Secretary, Senior Assistant Secretary, and Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Water Resources, Economic Relations Division, Finance Division, and Ministry of Science ICT. He has also working experience as Deputy Director in the Deepening Mid-Term Budgetary Framework (DMTBF) Project under the Finance Division and in the Basic Literacy Project under the Ministry of Primary and Mass-education. He has worked as a national consultant in Deepening Mid-Term Budgetary Framework (DMTBF) Project of Finance Division and Strengthening Land Management in Bangladesh of the Ministry of Land. Dr. Ferdous completed Ph. D form the Institute of Bangladesh Studies (IBS), University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh in 2005. He obtained BSS (Hons) and  MSS  in International Relations from University of Dhaka  in 1982 and 1983 respectively and Post Graduate Diploma in Development and Planning from the Academy of Planning and Development, Bangladesh in 1998. He has also received several national and international training from different institutions.

ataurMd. Ataur Rahman is the Deputy Director of Strengthening Public Financial Management for Social Protection (SPFMSP) Project, Finance Division, Ministry of Finance. He obtained a BSc Ag (Hons) and an MSc in Agriculture from Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymenshing and Post Graduate Diploma in Good Governance. He has also got different types of national and international training from different institutions. He has long experience in the field administration. He has been working in the field administration as well as different ministries in different capacity like Assistant Commissioner & Magistrate, Assistant Commissioner (Land), Revenue Deputy Collector (RDC), Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO), Senior Assistant Secretary, Deputy Director (DMTBF) Project, Deputy Director (Basic Literacy) Project and Deputy Secretary.

Siddiqur Rahman ChoudhurySiddiqur Rahman Choudhury is working as a Team Leader of Strengthening Public Financial Management for Social Protection (SPFMSP) project. He is a former Secretary of Ministry of Finance of Bangladesh. Mr. Choudhury held many important positions during his service to the Government of Bangladesh. Currently, he works also as a Director and Member of Social Marketing Company (SMC) of Bangladesh.

moinMoin Chowdhury is the Project Manager for Strengthening Public Financial Management for Social Protection (SPFMSP) project. Previously he has managed the finances and administration of DfID-Bangladesh’s flagship, award-winning extreme poverty reduction intervention, The Chars Livelihoods Programme Phase 2 (CLP2 £82.7M) as the Finance Director. Moin began his career as an officer in the Bangladesh Army. During his time in the Army, he was assigned as the Operations Officer at the Forces Headquarters of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) in 2001. Moin has an MBA from CASS Business School, City University, London in his credit. Besides MBA, he also achieved Masters of Defence Studies (MDS) degree from the Defence Services Command and Staff College in Bangladesh.

manzoorMd. Manzoor Alam Bhuiyan is a Social Protection Specialist (SPS) for the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs in the Strengthening Public Financial Management for Social Protection (SPFMSP) Project. He Obtained an MSS in Economics, MBA and LLB Degree. He has vast experience in the field administration. He has also got different types of national and international training from different institutions. He has been working in the field administration as well as different ministries in different capacity like Assistant Commissioner & Magistrate, Assistant Commissioner (Land), Nezarat Deputy Collector (NDC), Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO), Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC), Deputy Commissioner (DC), Deputy Secretary and joint Secretary.

A K M ShamsuddinA.K.M Shamsuddin is currently working for the Strengthening Public Financial Management for Social Protection (SPFMSP) Project of the Finance Division as Social Protection Specialist (SPS) of the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education (MOPME). He is a retired Secretary to the Government of Bangladesh and worked as Secretary of the Ministry of Primary and Mass education. After retirement from government service in 2007, he worked in some very import projects of the GOB as a consultant. He also worked directly with different development partners as a consultant. He worked in the diplomatic circle also and was the High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Kenya.

abdul-matinMd. Abdul Matin Chowdhury is currently working as a Social Protection Specialist for Ministry of Education under Strengthening Public Financial Management for Social Protection (SPFMSP) project. He had been working for a long time in the field of poverty alleviation, income generation, self-employment, education, skill development, gender issues, disaster management, administration of land and criminal justice and management of labour migration. He previously worked for the Government of Bangladesh in different capacities at the field and the policy levels.

Kazi Ariful Huda is currently working as a Social Protection Specialist for Ministry of Social Welfare (MoSW) under the Strengthening Public Financial Management for Social Protection (SPFMSP) project. He has more than thirty years’ experience in multi-sectoral development project management and technical assistance in the area of Social Protection and development programs. He also provided consultancy services as National Consultant at the World Bank, DSS of MoSW, National Consultant of Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment, ILO, SDC, UN Women and IOM, UNICEF, GTZ, Comic Relief UK, Boom NL, AKF UK, CRI UK, CARE International, DAM UK, BRAC etc. He previously worked with a number of INGOs and national NGOs such as SC Australia, Tere des Hommes NL, Concern Worldwide etc.

Md Golam MoulaMd. Golam Moula is currently working as the Finance Manager of Strengthening Public Financial Management for Social Protection (SPFMSP) Project. Moula is an accounting professional working in development field last 24 years in line with finance, administrative and HR management in Bangladesh. He is a master degree holder in accounting with CA course completed. He worked as the managerial position in different international development agencies likes; Save the Children-USA, Concern Worldwide-Ireland, Room to Read-USA and many other organizations. Moula has highly professional experience and strong skill in the field of finance and administrative works.

Tania Islam Sara is working as the National Communication Specialist of Strengthening Public Financial Management for Social Protection (SPFMSP) Project. She has over nine years of experience in communications, brand management, events management, media campaigns, and market communications. She has extensive knowledge and experience in working with various development organizations and private sector firms around Bangladesh.  Tania has a proven track record of organizing high profile events for clients, having won several awards for her creative supervision of numerous launch campaigns while working at Carrot Communications Ltd., a sister concern of Market Access Group. Her experience spans a rare gamut of acquired expertise due to working for leading organizations in both the private and development sectors – for instance Unilever Bangladesh Limited and Maxwell Stamp PLC. Prior to the SPFMSP Project, Tania has worked for Community Legal Services (CLS) Bangladesh Programme as a Communications and Knowledge Management Specialist, and also for the world’s largest NGO BRAC as a Communications and Documentation Manager for one of their core programmes called Community Empowerment Programme (CEP). Academically, Tania obtained an Advanced Certificate in Business Administration (ACBA) in 2014, under Management Development Program (MDP) of Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Dhaka, with distinction. She also has an Executive Masters of Business Administration, EMBA degree with distinction from North South University, obtained in 2013 with a Major in Marketing. Tania did her Bachelor of Computer Science with a Minor in Business from BRAC University in 2006.

Justus OgunaJustus O. Oguna – a successful and talented IT Consultant with extensive experience in ICT including System Analysis, Design and Development, Project Management, Technical Documentation, Web Development, Systems Administration, Systems Training, Systems Support and Maintenance and vast Internet Technologies experience. He has more than 6 years’ experience in reviewing and developing MIS for Social Protection having worked in Uganda, Ghana, Kenya, Somaliland and now in Bangladesh social protection programmes as MIS Consultant.

A B M Salah Uddin Sarker is currently working as a National MIS Coordinator for the SPFMSP Project. He has more than 14 years of experiences in the field of Information Technology specializing in Design and Development of MIS, IT Project management, IT application development and maintenance, business process development and implementation of information systems especially NID System. He successfully worked as a MIS and Database Consultant, managed IT unit in various projects both in the public and private sectors, funded by World Bank, UN, GOB and other donors. He coordinated with a many number of stakeholders of different organizations for different types of partner services and implemented different services and API. He is an Oracle Certified Expert (OCE) and Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA). He also has received several national and international training from different institutions.

Md. Ahsan Habib is currently working as a Maintenance Engineer for the SPFMSP Project. He has more than 19 years of experience in the field of Information Technology specialising in Network System and Server Solution, Power Management and Maintenance and web Development.He has depth knowledge in PHP, MySQL, HTML, Joomla, Word Press, RDBMS, Java EE, Windows Server, Microsoft Exchange, and Red Hat System Administration. He also has knowledge on   server hardware including rack mounted, blade server, and server administrations. He has working experience with government financial management projects especially in Ministry of Finance Bangladesh funded by DFID, World Bank, Aus Aid, and GoB. He successfully worked in various projects RIBEC, FMRP, FSMU, DMTBF, PEMS and SPFMSP. He graduated in Computer Science and Engineering from Asian University of Bangladesh, Dhaka.

Naila Karim Chowdhury is currently working as a programmer for the Strengthening Public Financial Management for Social Protection (SPFMSP) project. She has more than 11 years of experience in the field of Information Technology specialising Network and Communication, Web Development, End User Support, and Asset Management. She has knowledge on ISO, CMMI Level3 Documentation, Cisco, PHP, MySQL, Web Development framework (MVC, Joomla), RDBMS, Java EE, Windows 2012 Server and Microsoft Exchange 2013, Red Hat System Administration, Police Information Management System (ERP). She successfully worked for 5 years as an ICT Management Officer in different UNDP projects funded by DFID, World Bank, Aus Aid, GoB, and other donors. She also has worked for financial projects of DMTBF, PEMS, and joint-venture company. She graduated in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Science and Technology, Chittagong in 2004.

Md. Sajidur Rahman is currently working as a programmer for the Strengthening Public Financial Management for Social Protection (SPFMSP) project. He has more than 6 years of experiences in the field of Information Technology specialising in design and development of MIS, business process analysis and design, development and implementation of information systems especially in Govt. and Non-Govt. organisations. He has experience in ISO, CMMI Level3 Documentation, JAVA EE, Android, ASP.NET, Java Spring framework, Hibernate, Bootstrap, Angular JS 1, Angular JS 4, Oracle, MSSQL SERVER, MySQL, Web Server (JBoss, Tomcat), Web Service (REST, SOAP), and different web development frameworks like (MVC, larval, joomla etc.), Red Hat System Administration. He post-graduated in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and published his thesis on ‘Big Data Analysis and Data Mining Field’ in IEEE Explore.

kavimDr. Kavim V. Bhatnagar is a Social Protection Economist. He has an in in-depth knowledge and broad based experience in designing, developing and articulating inclusive pension systems in developing countries like India, Nepal, Bangladesh (Ongoing), Rwanda, Cambodia etc. and has vast experience of implementing inclusive contributory and co contributory pensions for the poor in India. A specialist in development economics, social protection, social security and inclusive growth, he brings to the table a unique combination of an ex Indian civil servant (voluntarily retired in 2012) with a broad canvas on strengthening public financial management in social protection policy and strategy; a researcher and a writer, a consultant on PFM pension reforms and social protection and implementer of inclusive pension reforms –formal and informal sector. His achievements include Micro Pension Innovation in India including designing, innovating, testing, rolling out and implementing individual account based co/contributory micro pensions for the working poor and labour classes. An MBA and a PhD in Management (Pension Economics) he is well accomplished with vast research, consulting and implementation experience and has written extensively on inclusive finance, pension and development sector in refereed journals; presented several research papers at national and international conferences and has made substantial impact on Public Policy Domain and Governance. He is also a visiting faculty at the South Africa based Economic Policy and Research Institute (EPRI), National Academy for Training and Research in Social Security, Ministry of Labour, Government of India; Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) Bangalore (IIMB), Indore (IIMI), Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and has rendered consultancy on projects to the ADB, DFID, KfW, UNDP, World Bank, etc.

Naheed Sultana is working as a Social Protection Specialist for Capacity Development & Institution Building with SPFMSP Project of Maxwell Stamp Plc. in Bangladesh. Her professional responsibility with MSP relates with Assessment of capacity and learning needs of GoB officials who are working with Social Protection Program in Bangladesh. She coordinates study visits and other national and international capacity building events for GoB officials, planning and delivery of training events, network training and workshops. Organizing logistics of internal and external SPFMSP training events including liaising with external training providers, arranging suitable venues, publicity and delegates bookings, answering delegate queries, monitor attendance, assist in creating a working registration through intranet and dealing with any problems which might arise. Support/manage the production of seminars and conferences. She evaluates effectiveness of capacity building interventions through feedback from participants, measures impact through various research methods. Naheed Sultana has over 20 years of experience as a Training Specialist. She worked in that capacity for International Fertilizer Development Center, Counterpart International, and Academy for Educational Development, Plan International, PRIP Trust, Save the Children (USA), and BRAC. She has obtained a Master’s in Education from Queen’s University in Canada and a Masters in Social Work from Rajshahi University in Bangladesh. Core areas of her interests are but not limited to broadly Capacity building and mainstreaming gender in the organization. She has professional knowledge on, gender analysis, gender audit, client needs assessment, design & implement gender awareness training, gender policy formulation & monitoring of implementation, integration of gender in program planning, steps against gender-based violence, writing report, appraise proposal & organization review.

Neda Shakiba Moore
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Child adoption process to speed up

TEHRAN – Child adoption process being piloted in Tehran will speed up, Darioush Bayatnejad, Tehran province welfare organization director has said.

Currently, some 2,800 applicants are awaiting adoption process, most of whom are parents not having children or intending to foster a child, he added.

The website will be soon operational nationwide, he highlighted, Mehr reported on Tuesday.

Among these applicants, some tend to foster children who suffer from different diseases to help them with treatment processes and costs, he noted.

He went on to say that applicants will be assessed to have required qualifications, then they will be on the waiting list to adopt the child, which is going to get faster, so the children sooner join a family to grow in a proper place.

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Member Organizations Member organizations in the Network for the Child Convention The following 47 organizations are members of the Network for the Convention on the Rights of the Child. If your organization wants to become a member, email your application to info@barnkonventionen.se. We would love to be more!

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Hoe Paula (93) de situatie van kinderen van ongehuwde moeders voor altijd veranderde: 40 jaar arrest-Marckx

How Paula (93) changed the situation of children of unmarried mothers forever: 40 years Marckx judgment


40 years ago, the European Court of Human Rights handed down the 'Marckx' milestone judgment. As a result, children of unmarried mothers, and at the same time children from an adulterous relationship, received the same rights as children of a married couple. The judgment came after a complaint from Paula Marckx against the Belgian State. Anne Vanrenterghem Thu 13 Jun 5:36 13 June 1979. Paula Marckx is proved right in the case she brought against the Belgian State at the European Court of Human Rights. She herself was a unmarried mother, of baby Alexandra, and she did not understand why she had to acknowledge her daughter, while married mothers should not. Moreover, even then her child did not have the same rights as the children of a married mother, among other things in terms of inheritance and ties with the family of Paula. Paula wrote an angry letter about it, and it therefore had an effect. "After that letter we left," says Paula Marckx in the Podcast "Somebody" on Radio 1. "We arrived there, in an impressive hall with a large placard:" Paula and Alexandra Marckx contre la Belgique. I have to say something. "

I didn't save a person from a burning house, just written a letter in the kitchen     Paula Marckx The European Court agreed with Paula on the whole line. According to the Court, everyone was entitled to an automatic bond with the mother, including children of unmarried mothers or so-called adulterous children. Paula Marckx was overwhelmed by the news. "I got a call from my cousin. Paula, we won, she said." She remains modest about her role in the history of family law. "If you think of it, it is something very simple, I am not going to save a person from a burning house, I have not climbed a mountain, I have just written a note in my kitchen." Delphine Boël can also thank Paula Marckx But the Marckx judgment was indeed a milestone. Not only for children of unmarried mothers, but also for children from an adulterous relationship. "A child who was adulterous on the father's side, think for example of Delphine Boël, who never had the possibility to establish paternity. Because that was adulterous and that was not allowed," says Professor Family Law Frederik Swennen. "So even if King Albert's paternity were confirmed with DNA, it was 'aunt pis' before the Marckx judgment. Then there was no way to deny Jaques Boël's paternity," says the professor. Even if mothers were adulterous, nothing was possible by the way. That child automatically had the husband as father, and that was undeniable. "Napoleon - who drafted the law book at the time - then said, he should have watched his wife," says Swennen.


But the judgment also had major consequences for our right to privacy. The Court stated in its judgment that Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which states the right to respect for private, family and family life, contained a positive obligation. This means that the state had to actively ensure that that right was protected. The recent European privacy legislation GDPR is also a spur of this. Family law on its head throughout Europe The judgment came as a real shock. In politics, the situation of so-called illegitimate children had never been in question until then. "Everyone in Europe thought it would lead nowhere. Because there was almost no country where it was different from Belgium," says Swennen. But it was nevertheless so. The judgment had to change the legislation in our country. "That happened for the first time in 1987, and the last adjustment was made in 2006," said Frederik Swennen. But that also had to happen in other European countries. "Many countries have had to adapt. They have done so step by step. Until the 2000s, countries were still convicted of inheritance law, such as France and Austria. It took a long time before all countries had adjusted," says Swennen.


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Sisters, Reunited ( Rekha )

Sisters, Reunited

Meet Rekha, Deborah and Christina — three Indian adoptees from different families with one very strong and powerful connection: their shared beginning.

Rekha, Deborah and Christina

If you see us in person or in a picture, we are three little Indians: petite, of Indian nationality, and a group of three. Our names are Deborah, Rekha and Christina. We are three different people with one very strong and powerful connection: our shared beginning. Together on December 11, 1988, we traveled on Pan Am Flight 067 as infants 20+ hours from Pune, Maharashtra, India, to New York City, New York, USA. There were five of us total, accompanied and cared for by our American travel chaperones, Barbara, her husband, Lee, and their 20-year-old son, Kip. What we share is not only a past, but since finding each other and then meeting again 30+ years later, a new beginning of friendship and sisterhood.

While we are a group of three in this story told to you today, we are actually a group of five. We are hopeful that one day all five of us can reunite and be together once again.

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Commissie Geweld Jeugdzorg | Eindrapport

Final report In the final report Insufficient protection. Violence in Dutch youth care from 1945 to the present are the results of the large-scale study by the Commission for Research into Violence in Youth Care, which it conducted between 2016 and 2019. Three parts You can view the research results on three levels, which go one step deeper:     Part 1: The final report: this describes the findings of the study as a whole and contains recommendations.     Part 2: The sector and theme studies: the results of all sub-studies (seven sector studies and eight theme studies) can be found under this heading.     Part 3: The source studies: all studies that have been carried out to produce the reports of part 2 can be found under this heading. You can read the details in thirteen PDF files: from interviews to archive material. Cabinet response On 12 June 2019, Ministers Hugo de Jonge (Health, Welfare and Sport) and Sander Dekker (Legal Protection) gave their response to the final report of the Committee for the Investigation of Violence in Youth Care to the Lower House. Read the reaction here: ( see attachments )


Part 1: Final report In the final report "Insufficient protection. Violence in Dutch youth care from 1945 to the present "you will find the results of the large-scale study by the Commission for Violence in Youth Care, which it conducted between 2016 and 2019. Below is a brief summary of the findings Violence In the entire period from 1945 to the present, physical, psychological and sexual violence occurred in youth care. Victims reported physical and psychological violence over the years before 1970, mainly exercised by group leaders and foster parents. After 1970 this shifts to more physical violence among pupils. Psychological violence also remains present during that period. Based on representative research, the Committee estimates that 1 in 10 people who have ever been in youth care often experienced violence very often. Almost a quarter of those surveyed have never experienced violence. Participants in the study also reported good experiences. Effects For former pupils, psychological violence, such as persistent harassment, humiliation and isolation, is a major influence on their later lives. Commonly mentioned consequences are psychosocial health problems, relationship problems and problems with raising own children.

How could this happen? In youth care, various factors contributed to the occurrence and persistence of violence. For a long time, the negative view of the child who was placed out of the home in society encouraged violence. Youth care had insufficient financial resources to find suitable staff and to retain them for a longer period of time. For a long time, there was a lack of sufficient training and methodologies, protective laws and regulations and government supervision. Supervisors often did not intervene in situations where violence occurred. The juveniles placed out of the home could not or did not dare to talk about violence and could turn to virtually no one. Recognition and prevention The committee makes various recommendations to offer victims recognition and to prevent violence in youth care in the future. Offering recognition to victims of violence in youth care is an important part of this.


Part 2: Sector and theme studies In part 2 of the publications of the Youth Violence Care Commission you will find seven sector studies and eight thematic studies. These have formed the basis for the analysis, the conclusions and recommendations as they can be read in part 1 of the final report of the committee. Sector studies The sector studies describe the seven sectors of youth care on which the committee's research has focused. Three questions were always central: what happened, how could it happen and what has been the impact on the lives of the victims in the short and long term. Thematic studies A number of overarching or more specific topics have been further elucidated and investigated in the thematic studies.


Part 2 - Sector and theme studies     Sector study Violence in residential youth care     Sector study Violence in foster care     Sector study Violence in closed (Judicial) youth institutions     Sector study Violence in the residential LVB youth sector     Sector study Violence in deaf and blind boarding homes     Sector study Violence in child and adolescent psychiatry     Sector study Violence in the reception of unaccompanied minor aliens (1990 - 2018)     Archive study Traces of violence in youth care after 1945     Perpetrators of violence against juveniles in institutions and foster families in the context of social, pedagogical, situational and individual factors     Analysis of reports at the hotline of the Commission for Research into Violence in Youth Care     Analyzes of the Kantar Public population panel. Violence in youth care     Youth experiences and current health of participants in sector surveys. Analysis of their answers to the ACE and EQ5d3l questionnaires     Prevalence estimation of child abuse in mainstream Dutch youth care     The offer of assistance for adults with a history of violence in youth care: an exploration     Research into violence in youth care by committees in other countries Underlying source studies The research teams based the sector and theme reports in part 2 on their own source studies: archive research, interviews, standardized questionnaires, media and literature research. These source studies can be downloaded on the Part 3: Source studies page.

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Eindrapport

In het eindrapport Onvoldoende beschermd. Geweld in de Nederlandse jeugdzorg van 1945 tot heden staan de resultaten van het grootschalige onderzoek van de Commissie Onderzoek naar Geweld in de Jeugdzorg, dat zij tussen 2016 en 2019 uitvoerde.

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De onderzoeksresultaten kunt u op drie niveaus bekijken, die steeds een stapje dieper gaan:

  • Deel 1: Het eindrapport: hierin zijn de bevindingen van het onderzoek als geheel beschreven en staan aanbevelingen.
  • Deel 2: De sector- en themastudies: de resultaten van alle deelonderzoeken (zeven sectorstudies en acht themastudies) zijn onder dit kopje te vinden.
  • Deel 3: De bronstudies: alle studies die zijn uitgevoerd om tot de rapportages van deel 2 te komen, vindt u onder dit kopje. In dertien pdf-bestanden leest u de details: van interviews tot archiefmateriaal.

Kabinetsreactie

Op 12 juni 2019 gaven ministers Hugo de Jonge (Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport) en Sander Dekker (Rechtsbescherming) hun reactie op het eindrapport van de Commissie Onderzoek naar Geweld in de Jeugdzorg aan de Tweede Kamer. Lees de reactie hier:


Deel 1: Eindrapport

In het eindrapport ‘Onvoldoende beschermd. Geweld in de Nederlandse jeugdzorg van 1945 tot heden’ vindt u de resultaten van het grootschalige onderzoek van de Commissie Onderzoek naar Geweld in de Jeugdzorg, dat zij tussen 2016 en 2019 uitvoerde. Hieronder vindt u een korte samenvatting van de bevindingen

Geweld

In de gehele periode 1945 tot heden kwam fysiek, psychisch en seksueel geweld in de jeugdzorg voor. Slachtoffers meldden over de jaren voor 1970 fysiek en psychisch geweld dat vooral uitgeoefend werd door groepsleiding en pleegouders. Na 1970 verschuift dit naar meer fysiek geweld van pupillen onderling. Het psychisch geweld blijft ook in die periode aanwezig.

De commissie schat op basis van representatief onderzoek dat 1 op de 10 personen die ooit in jeugdzorg verbleven, vaak tot zeer vaak geweld meemaakte. Bijna een kwart van de ondervraagden heeft nooit geweld meegemaakt. Deelnemers aan het onderzoek rapporteerden ook goede ervaringen.

Gevolgen

Voor ex-pupillen blijkt psychisch geweld, zoals aanhoudend treiteren, vernederen en isoleren van grote invloed op hun latere leven. Veel genoemde gevolgen zijn psychosociale gezondheidsklachten, relatieproblemen en problemen met het opvoeden van eigen kinderen.

Hoe kon dit gebeuren?

In de jeugdzorg droegen verschillende factoren bij aan het ontstaan en voortduren van geweld. De in de samenleving heersende negatieve kijk op het uit huis geplaatste kind werkte lange tijd geweld in de hand. Jeugdzorg had onvoldoende financiële middelen om geschikt personeel te vinden en voor langere tijd aan zich te binden. Het ontbrak lang aan voldoende opleidingen en methodieken, aan beschermende wet- en regelgeving en aan overheidstoezicht. Toezichthouders grepen vaak niet in in situaties waarin geweld voorkwam. De uit huis geplaatste jeugdigen konden of durfden niet over geweld te praten en konden bij vrijwel niemand terecht.

Erkenning en preventie

De commissie doet verschillende aanbevelingen om slachtoffers erkenning te bieden en geweld in jeugdzorg in de toekomst te voorkomen. Het bieden van erkenning aan slachtoffers van geweld in jeugdzorg is hiervan een belangrijk onderdeel.


Deel 2: Sector- en themastudies

In deel 2 van de publicaties van de Commissie Geweld Jeugdzorg vindt u zeven sectorstudies en acht thematische studies. Deze hebben de basis gevormd voor de analyse, de conclusies en aanbevelingen zoals die in deel 1 van het eindrapport van de commissie te lezen zijn.

Sectorstudies

De sectorstudies beschrijven de zeven sectoren van jeugdzorg waarop het onderzoek van de commissie zich heeft gericht. Daarbij stonden steeds drie vragen centraal: wat is er gebeurd, hoe heeft het kunnen gebeuren en wat is de invloed geweest op het leven van de slachtoffers op korte en lange termijn.

Thematische studies

In de thematische studies is een aantal overkoepelende of meer specifieke onderwerpen nader belicht en onderzocht.

Deel 2 – Sector- en themastudies

  1. Sectorstudie Geweld in de residentiële jeugdzorg
  2. Sectorstudie Geweld in de pleegzorg
  3. Sectorstudie Geweld in gesloten (Justitiële) Jeugdinrichtingen
  4. Sectorstudie Geweld in de residentiële LVB-jeugdsector
  5. Sectorstudie Geweld in doven- en blindeninternaten
  6. Sectorstudie Geweld in de kinder- en jeugdpsychiatrie
  7. Sectorstudie Geweld in de opvang van alleenstaande minderjarige vreemdelingen (1990 – 2018)
  8. Archiefstudie Sporen van geweld in de jeugdzorg na 1945
  9. Geweldplegers tegen jeugdigen in instellingen en pleeggezinnen in de context van maatschappelijke, pedagogische, situationele en individuele factoren
  10. Analyse van meldingen bij het meldpunt van de Commissie Onderzoek naar Geweld in de Jeugdzorg
  11. Analyses data bevolkingspanel Kantar Public. Geweld in de jeugdzorg
  12. Jeugdervaringen en huidige gezondheid van deelnemers sectoronderzoeken. Analyse van hun antwoorden op de vragenlijsten ACE en EQ5d3l
  13. Prevalentieschatting van kindermishandeling in de reguliere Nederlandse jeugdzorg
  14. Het hulpaanbod voor volwassenen met een verleden van geweld in de jeugdzorg: een verkenning
  15. Onderzoek naar geweld in jeugdzorg door commissies in andere landen

Onderliggende bronstudies

De onderzoeksteams hebben de sector- en themarapportages in deel 2 gebaseerd op eigen bronnenonderzoeken: archiefonderzoek, interviews, gestandaardiseerde vragenlijsten, media- en literatuuronderzoek. Deze bronstudies zijn te downloaden op de pagina Deel 3: Bronstudies.



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