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Statement Allegations in News Reports of Inappropriate Child Care at Komanski Most PODGORICA, March 26th, 2010 - UNICEF expressed concern about allegations in the media of the mistreatment of children in the Komanski Most institution. UNICEF noted that while much had been achieved this decade the work remained unfinished. The allegations, as well as the publication of the CPT report, were a wakeup call to end institutionalisation of children in Montenegro. UNICEF stands ready with other international partners to support speeding up Montenegro’s efforts to bring about reform in this area. Concerning the situation in Komanski Most, UNICEF and the Government are preparing and implementing plans for the remaining ten children in the institution to be cared for within family or community settings. Individual assessments of all the children in Bijela Children’s Home and Komanski Most institutions have been conducted and individual care and treatment plans have been developed to improve their social skills and prepare them for reintegration into the family or (in the case of the children from Komanski Most) for their movement into Small Group Homes. The two Small Group homes will be built with the support of the US Embassy in Montenegro. “The US, through the US Militaries European Command, will support the children of Komanski Most by providing funds for constructing Small Group Homes in Danilovgrad. We are delighted to contribute to the establishment of a new family-type model that will support the process of reform of the child protection system in Montenegro” says Ambassador Roderick Moore. UNICEF Representative in Montenegro, Noala Skinner said it was important to make the rights and needs of the ten children the first priority. Great care and caution needed to be taken with the children to ensure their move out of Komanski Most did not endanger them. Suitably trained and adequate staffing was required, and the children needed to have access educational opportunities, including attendance in classes at appropriate Centres in Podgorica. “UNICEF is confident that the Komanski Most children will have a better future. The challenge now is to reach every child in this situation in Montenegro so this never happens again,” Skinner said. “UNICEF is working with the Government to develop a comprehensive child care system including the dismantling of institutions.” The Country Programme Action Plan 2010-2011 signed March 24 by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the UNICEF Representative aims at increasing the percentage of children and families having access to family and community-based alternatives to institutionalization. The implementation of this programme will enhance support to biological families for prevention of separation and for formal child care in line with international standards. This will be achieved through the transformation of residential institutions and the development of local capacities for provision of family support and family substitute services. An example of this is the UNICEF supported Day Care Centre for Children with disabilities in Bijelo Polje that is now being replicated across Montenegro. “UNICEF welcomes the expansion of the network of Day Care Centres in the country, and urges complete coverage, with Centres in every municipality” says the UNICEF Representative. Substantial support for child care system reform is also envisaged by the European Union which attaches specific importance to child protection (including de-institutionalization) in the accession process. “ In the case of previous enlargement of the EU, reforming the child protection system was an important milestone on the road to the European Union and it will be no less important for Montenegro" says Clive Rumbold, Acting Head of the EU Delegation to Montenegro The overarching reform is to provide assistance to families needing support to care for their children. UNICEF believes that the best environment for raising children is within a loving and supportive family. Alternative means of caring for a child should only be considered when, despite this assistance, a child’s family is unavailable and unable to care for him or her. For children who cannot be raised by their own families, an appropriate alternative family environment should be sought in preference to institutional care. This can include small group facilities. But placing a child in any kind of institution should be a last resort and for the shortest time possible. “There is much to be done to develop a continuum of child and social protection services, and UNICEF is fully committed to supporting child protection reform” says Ms. Skinner. For additional information, please contact: Ms. Jelena Perovi?, Communication Officer, UNICEF Montenegro; Phone: +382 20 224 277 Ext. 3; Fax: +382 20 224 278; Mobile: +382 69 225 315; Email: jperovic@unicef.org; Website: www.unicef.org/montenegro https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=127&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CFsQFjAGOHg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unicef.org%2Fmontenegro%2FKomanskimostStatement.doc&ei=kXsVVJKlKeXuyQOy1YGgCA&usg=AFQjCNH98PnwF_e4qTaKEQXTz7ob3yZc2A&sig2=YjMMnqRAq3czPkbggBxFoQ&bvm=bv.75097201,d.bGQ

One million USD for taking care child adoption in Vietnam

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CPV: "The US Agency for International Development is contributing 300,000 USD to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) program to help officials create regulations meeting international standards covering child adoption in Vietnam", said the US Embassy to Hanoi on April 25.

Developed in close cooperation with Vietnam’s Ministry of Justice and other relevant authorities, the “Strengthening legislation and monitoring systems for child adoption” program will assist in improving the legal and regulatory framework to better protect children without parental care by developing and implementing national legislation and policies on domestic and inter-country adoption.

Updated : 4/27/2011 3:20:00 PM

USAID helps child adoption reform in Vietnam

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has granted US$300,000 to UNICEF in Vietnam to support the programme “strengthening legislation and monitoring systems for child adoption” in the nation from now until 2013.

The USAID grant will contribute to the improvement of the current legal and regulatory framework to ensure its compliance with international standards to better protect children without parental care through the development and implementation of national legislation and policies on domestic and inter-country adoption, and the ratification of the Hague Convention.

In addition, the grant will support setting up a national monitoring system for child adoption and building the capacity of policy makers, welfare and enforcement personnel to better protect children.

Adoption breakthrough for families seeking to adopt overseas children EXCLUSIVE Samantha Maiden National Political Editor The Sunday Telegraph April 26, 2014 10:00PM PRIME Minister Tony Abbott will slash adoption red tape in Australia, take full control of overseas adoption from the states and opening discussions with Vietnam, Kenya, Bulgaria, Latvia, Poland, the US and Cambodia. After joining forces with actor Deborra-Lee Furness and her husband Hugh Jackman to champion adoption reform, Mr Abbott promised action within 12 months. Mr Abbott will announce tomorrow the government’s response to a major report of the interdepartmental committee on inter-country adoption, which calls for governments to cut costs, waiting time and uncertain outcomes. It will include plans to streamline the complex application process for prospective parents and slash red tape. The Prime Minister will then put the reform agenda to state premiers on Friday at the Council of Australian Governments Meeting. Australia will also open a new program with South Africa immediately and work to open discussions with Kenya, Bulgaria, Latvia, Poland, the US, Cambodia and Vietnam.

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Adoption law must improve to protect children Vietnam’s laws on child adoption have been improved and brought closer in line with international standards, especially in the case of foreign adopting parents, but further improvement is needed. The information was heard at a conference in Hanoi on April 4. The discussion was co-organised by the Ministry of Justice and the United Nations Children’s Fund to review three years of implementing the Law on Adoption and two years of executing The Hague Convention of Child Protection and International Cooperation in Child Protection. Participants pointed out several difficulties in adopting children at home and abroad, such as defining suitable parents, profiling orphans and conducting the necessary procedures for adoption. They agreed that the Vietnamese Government should continue perfecting its regulations on adoption, and strengthen coordination between ministries and sectors in order to effectively implement the Law on Adoption and The Hague Convention. They also stressed the need to publicise guidance on the law to raise the public’s awareness, and invest in technology application to serve the State management in child adoption.

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Trafic d’enfants : la DGM démantèle un réseau dirigé par un citoyen américain

septembre 14, 2014, | Denière mise à jour le 14 septembre, 2014 à 10:20 | sous Actualité, Kasaï Occidental, Katanga, Kinshasa, Régions. Mots clés: DGM, Etats Unis, RDC, Trafic d'enfants

Ces enfants sans domicile fixe, passent la nuit le long de ce mur de la clôture de la gare centrale où ils ont été surpris ce 17/06/2011 Radio

M. Samuel Jessy, un citoyen américain résidant en République démocratique du Congo est impliqué dans un réseau de trafic d’enfants. La Direction générale de migration (DGM) l’a révélé samedi 13 septembre dans une déclaration à la presse. Selon le directeur adjoint de la police des frontières à la migration, Bonaventure Ibanda, cet Américain collabore avec un Congolais vivant aux Etats-Unis, Gauthier Mukoko.

Bonaventure Ibanda affirme que sept enfants dont quatre de Kananga et trois de Kinshasa âgés de deux à huit ans récupérés par ce service, s’apprêtaient à quitter la RDC par Kasumbalesa au Katanga pour les Etats-Unis.

Why did an adoption agency tell Angelina Jolie I had died of AIDS when they gave her my baby?

By STEPHEN BEVAN

Last updated at 07:58 26 November 2007

She's happy her daughter Zahara has a better life in America with Angelina Jolie, but in her first-ever interview the child's mother raises disturbing questions about how she was adopted...

Her credentials as a caring superstar could hardly be bettered. Angelina Jolie, mother of four, is as famous for her well-publicised adoptions of children from Third World countries as she is for her Oscar-winning movies and marriage to Brad Pitt.