Center for Civil Society International ([email protected])
Thu, 9 Apr 1998 11:16:32 -0700 (PDT)
The International Foundation for Mother and Child Health Care
announces a roundtable discussion entitled "Russia will help its
Children: The First All-Russian Forum of Non-governmental
Organizations Acting in the Interests of Children", to be held in
Moscow, on June 25th, 1998.
The purpose of this form is to combine efforts of the society in the
improvement of the child status. The necessity of discussing the main
directions of joint action in this field is connected with the fact
that up to now there still remains a gap between existing legal rules,
documents, and the actual situation in the provision of children's
rights for survival, protection and development. The unstable
economic situation, the inertness of social processes, the slow reform
of health services and education system, the lack of action on the
part of state institutions to develop and support the moral and
intellectual sphere of children, the reductions in the network of
children's sanatoria, summer recreational facilities for health
promotion, physical activities and sports, the early start of labor
activity, the decrease of the level of life in a large number of
refugee and migrant families, general deterioration of ecological
situation -- all this resulted in the stable rise of morbidity,
disability, child neglect, devaluation of value orientations in the
life of children, the increase in the number of children with asocial
behavior (drug addicts, alcoholics, juvenile delinquents).
We propose to discuss the following issues:
-- Legislative provision of children's rights under present
socioeconomic conditions; the ways to overcome the lag between legal
documents and measures taken in the interests of children;
-- Social guarantees of providing support to families -- the natural
environment of child development;
-- Child health protection in the hotbeds of interregional conflicts
and wars, in the regions of ecological disasters and that of foster
children at boarding schools;
-- Ways of solving the issues of cultural, intellectual, physical
development, optimizing the social integration of children, including
those with limited capacities and the disabled;
-- Rights of children with limited capabilities for education,
development of mental and physical faculties;
-- Liquidation of occult (protein, vitamin, micro-element) deficiency;
-- Protection of quality and safety of products and goods for
children;
-- Child labor and health;
-- Forms of protection from physical violence and child abuse;
-- Society and asocial forms of child and adolescent behavior (alcohol
abuse and drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, prostitution,
infringements of the law);
-- Child and adolescent education and health;
-- Participation of specialty public foundations in the protection of
child and adolescent health (associations, union, etc.);
Role of international non-governmental organizations in the support of
socio-medical programs of child health care in Russia;
-- Mass communication media in the formation of health;
-- Forms of interaction between governmental and public organizations
on child and adolescent health promotion.
For more information please contact:
Larisa Scheplyagina
International Foundation for Mother and Child Health Care
5 Noviy Arbat
121019 Moscow, Russia
tel: 290 33 00
290 33 10
fax: 290 33 63
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