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Significant improvement made in children's rights last year
Belgrade,
14 March 2008
State Secretary of the Serbian Ministry of Labour and Social Policy Ljiljana Lucic said today that during the reform process in Serbia in 2007, the greatest progress has been made in the field of institutional protection of children without parental care.
Lucic said at a conference titled "Implementation, protection and monitoring the rights of the child at local level: experiences so far and future challenges" that there are some 800 children without parental care in social care institutions, while more and more children are being placed with foster care families, where there are currently 3,800 children.
Director of UNICEF for Serbia Judita Reichenberg specified that 300,000 children in Serbia live in poverty and have neither appropriate health care, nor the conditions to receive quality education.
She said that Roma children are most vulnerable and all parameters that relate to poverty are much more prevalent among them than among the rest of the population.
Head of Operations of the European Commission Delegation in Serbia Ferenz Simon said that in 2007 Serbia made a big step forward in improving the rights of the child, but that the discrimination of socially vulnerable groups, first of all Roma children and those with special needs, is still a big problem.
The conference " Implementation, protection and monitoring the rights of the child at the local level: experiences so far and future challenges " was organised by the Serbian government's Council for Children's Rights and UNICEF in cooperation with the European Commission in Serbia.
Director of UNICEF for Serbia Judita Reichenberg specified that 300,000 children in Serbia live in poverty and have neither appropriate health care, nor the conditions to receive quality education.
She said that Roma children are most vulnerable and all parameters that relate to poverty are much more prevalent among them than among the rest of the population.
Head of Operations of the European Commission Delegation in Serbia Ferenz Simon said that in 2007 Serbia made a big step forward in improving the rights of the child, but that the discrimination of socially vulnerable groups, first of all Roma children and those with special needs, is still a big problem.
The conference " Implementation, protection and monitoring the rights of the child at the local level: experiences so far and future challenges " was organised by the Serbian government's Council for Children's Rights and UNICEF in cooperation with the European Commission in Serbia.
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