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Premiere for Europe — the UN Guidelines on the Alternative Care of Children were adapted in a child-friendly language in the Republic of Moldova.

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

The goal of the UN Guidelines approved by the United Nations’ General Assembly in 2010 is to help adults implement the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as appropriately as possible. They tell the Governments HOW to respect children’s rights, WHAT they must DO to prevent children’s separation from their families and HOW to improve the care of children living outside families.

According to Natalia Semeniuc, EveryChild Consultant in Child Participation, the key message of the paper is that every child must grow up in a family and when this is not possible, the state is required to provide protection to the child in alternative family-type services.

The brochure also contains a series of stories told by children who lived in alternative care, as well as positive practices of the authorities in charge for child protection.

The UN Guidelines were adapted with support of Partnerships for Every Child by a group of experts in child rights protection and communication and by the members of Advisory Boards of Children of Falesti, Ungheni and Calarasi districts. The complex text of the document was transformed so as to be accessible to children who are the key beneficiaries of the residential system reform.