Ukraine President Opens Nationwide Meeting on Children’s Rights Protection

By on 10-27-2011 in Domestic Adoption, Ukraine

Ukraine President Opens Nationwide Meeting on Children’s Rights Protection

“Chaired President Viktor Yanukovych, a nationewide meeting on the protection of children’s rights has started.

Participants of the meeting were to analyze the state of children’s rights protection in Ukraine and identify steps to improveme government activity in this area.

The meeting’s agenda also included the issue of executive authorities protecting childrens’ rights to education and healthy development, family education, overcoming the problem of homelessness, disabled children’s rights, and tose of orphans and deprived of parental care.”

President opens nationwide meeting on children’s rights protection
[Official Website of Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych 10/27/11]

“It should be done instead of financing boarding schools for orphans. This is what the Ukrainian President said during the All-Ukrainian meeting on child rights protection.

This is a common principle of financing in the world. “Money follows the child,” the President explained. He noted that in Ukraine for four years now the issue of reforming boarding schools has been discussed but few practical results have been achieved so far. The Cabinet of Ministers “so far failed to adopt provisions of a new type of institution,” Viktor Yanukovych said. This is despite the fact that in Chernivtsi, Kirovohrad, Kyiv and Cherkasy regions institutions of new type have been already created on a voluntary basis.”

 
President Viktor Yanukovych supports implementation of targeted funding of orphaned children
[NRCU 10/27/11]

“Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said that it is necessary to conduct state policies aimed at increasing the adoption of children by Ukrainian citizens.

“We must do everything to ensure that all children deprived of parental care, regardless of their age and health, are adopted by Ukrainian citizens and stay in a [family] home,” he said in Kyiv on Thursday at a nationwide council on the protection of children’s rights.

Yanukovych noted that the number of children adopted by Ukrainians had been gradually falling over the past two years.

“We need to improve this work and overcome stereotypes in a sensitive area like adoption, better inform Ukrainian citizens and actively involve the media in this noble cause,” he said.

He also said that such projects as “Children Search Service,” “This Child Needs a Family” and the national portal sirotstvu.net were being successfully implemented in Ukraine.

Yanukovych: Ukraine should conduct policies aimed at increasing adoption of children by Ukrainians
[Interfax 10/27/11]

The Ombudsman was interviewed a few weeks ago. See here.

Ukraine Parliament passed a new law in September  allowing older people to adopt.

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