ISS/IRC Projects
As part of the services being offered, the ISS/IRC
undertakes specific and timely projects. In particular, the ISS/IRC has
obtained solid experience in providing technical support in the realm
of socio-legal reform of systems concerned with the protection of
children deprived of their families, the training of professionals in
this domain and research projects.
In the upcoming months, the ISS/IRC will undertake the following projects:
- Lobby and advocate for the Draft UN Guidelines for the Appropriate Use and Conditions of Alternative Care for Children- which has been co-drafted with UNICEF with the objective of being adopted at the General Assembly at the end of 2009. For more information, please click here.
In the past years, the ISS/IRC has undertaken the following projects:
- Advice and technical support- In collaboration with other stakeholders (in particular UNICEF), the ISS/IRC has embarked upon numerous missions to evaluate child protection systems, with a particular focus on intercountry adoption, in the following countries Romania (1991-1993), Albania (1992), Rwanda (2002), Ukraine (2005), Moldava (2006-2007), Azerbaijan (2007), Kazakhstan and Kirghistan (2007).
- Support and follow up of legislative reforms in intercountry adoption and/or protection of children deprived of their family – at the request of international stakeholders, notably UNICEF or the European Union or governments, for example in Moldova, Mauritius and Cyprus.
- Training of professionals working for the protection of children - notably in Peru, Romania, Azerbaijan and France etc.
- Thematic Research and Publication of Circulars - relating to adoption of older children, Kafala in Muslim countries, the modes for contact between the child and biological parents etc.
- Participation in numerous conferences, such as Czech Republic, Peru, Italy, India, France and Russia.
- Support to students, International Institute for the Rights of the Child in Switzerland - for a project relating to the reintegration of non accompanied minors in their countries of origin.