According to the report of the Fars news agency’s judicial group, citing the public relations of the Ministry of Justice, Amin Hossein Rahimi, at noon today, Tuesday, 11 Bahman 1401, in the second synergy meeting regarding the establishment of a cooperative support mechanism for orphaned and abused children in Tehran, Alborz and Fars provinces. considered the issue of children’s rights as one of the most important social issues.
He said: “The Ministry of Justice, as the national authority of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, has the role of coordinating governmental and non-governmental institutions related to the rights of children and adolescents, and in this context, one of our main concerns is determining the role of working and street children and facilitating the process of handing over welfare children to Eligible families.
The head of the National Authority of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, expressing his hope regarding the facilitation of the conditions for the transfer of guardianship and adoption through legal mechanisms and referring to the successful experience of “Joy of Life Complex” in the city of Mashhad, said: Identifying and using legal capacities and actualizing legal capacities to determine Homeless children welfare task facilitates the way to collect and improve the livelihood of working and street children.
Emphasizing that the long-term presence of children in welfare centers will naturally cause mental and emotional damage to these children, the Minister of Justice said: it is necessary to cooperate with government agencies, charities and non-governmental organizations and use legal capacities to determine the duties of the unaccompanied children present. Take care of orphaned children in welfare and family centers.
Before the speech of the Minister of Justice, Seyed Ali Kazemi, the Deputy Minister of Justice and the Secretary of the National Authority of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in a speech presenting statistics on children at risk and children in high-risk situations, stated: Unsupervised and abused children include children at risk and in need of protection. are.
Emphasizing the need to change the approach in caring for children from an institution-centered to a family-centered one, Kazemi said: According to the Child and Adolescent Protection Law of 2019, it is possible to change the use of Amina Nursery to a Child and Adolescent Protection Center.
In the continuation of this meeting, the audience and the representatives of the prosecutor’s office, the welfare organization, the judiciary, and the representatives of the relevant institutions in Alborz, Tehran, and Fars provinces discussed and exchanged information on how to set up a child and adolescent support center and the necessary mechanisms in this regard.
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