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EveryChild pushes for full implementation of new UN childcare guidelines
Following a significant campaign by children’s charities from around the world, including EveryChild,the UN General Assembly agreed to new guidelines setting out how governments can develop family-based alternatives to institutional care and services to help keep vulnerable families together. The adoption of the guidelines in November 2009 coincided with the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Thanks to our supporters and friends who emailed their MPs, over 40 MPs supported a motion in Parliament calling for the guidelines to be adopted.
‘We now call on all governments to develop an action plan for the full implementation of the UN guidelines. It is time to recognise the right of every child to grow up in a loving family environment,’ said our Chief Executive, Anna Feuchtwang.
Our team in Ukraine joined the call for thefull implementation of the guidelines in their country by contributing to a report on children’s rights. The report highlighted a number of areas in which their government is failing to address specific rights, or support specific groups of children.
‘We urgently call on the Ukrainian government to fully implement the new UN guidelines on alternative care. They need to do much more to ensure children access their rights and combat discrimination against marginalised groups of children, such as those affected by HIV and children from the Roma community,’ said Vasylyna Dybaylo, Deputy Director of EveryChild in Ukraine.
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