"June 2016"--Table of contents page. "This report was researched and written by Emina Ćerimović, researcher in the Disability Rights Division of Human Rights Watch"--Page 87. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Acknowledgments. Life in institutions -- Obligations -- Way Forward -- Methodology -- Institutionalization in Serbia: National Framework and Initiatives -- Small Group Homes -- Family Outreach Service -- Illusion of Decline; Increase in Admissions -- More Investments in Institutions Instead of Community Care -- Serbia's International and National Legal Obligation to Ensure the Right of a Child to not be Separated from His or Her Family -- The Path to Institutionalization: Undue Pressure on and Lack of Information to Parents -- Lack of Community-Based Services -- Lack of Inclusive Education -- Poverty and the Broken Foster Care System -- Abuse of children with Disabilities in Institutions: Segregation and Seclusion -- Neglect -- Lack of Privacy for Personal Care -- Insufficient Safeguards Against Abusive Use of Restraints and Physical and Psychological Violence -- Right to be Free from Violence and Neglect -- Involuntary and Potentially Inappropriate Medical Treatment -- Right to Education -- Limited Freedom of Movement -- Denial of Legal Capacity -- Right to Legal Capacity for Adults with Disabilities -- Recommendations: To the Serbian Government, including the Ministries of Social Policy, Health, Education, and Finance -- To the European Union -- To Serbia's International Partners -- Acknowledgments.
Summary:
"The report, 'It is my dream to leave this place: Children with Disabilities in Serbian Institutions,' documents the pressure families face to send children born with disabilities to large residential institutions, often far away from their homes, separating them from their families. There, children may experience neglect, inappropriate medication, and lack of privacy and have limited or no access to education"--Publisher's description.
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