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Most parents of domestic workers in Ambositra receive a salary twice a month. In other regions, parents receive a salary every six months, or even on a yearly basis. (...) Parents try to marry off their daughters to a man with many cattle.

Militia are currently occupying the building. Twenty parents in Bendery and as many as 50 parents in Ribnita stayed overnight in the other schools. (...) However, a number of Moldovan parents remained around the clock in School No. 19 in Bendery and the school in Ribnita, fearful of attempts by Transdniestrian local authorities to seize the schools. (...) Parents and Mission members were checking the building periodically.

Article 9 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child addresses the protection and well-being of children who are separated from their parent or parents against their will, irrespective of the causes of the separation. (...) While the Convention recognises the need for States Parties to ensure the non-separation of the child from its parents in Article 9(1), the Convention also accepts that action initiated by States Parties such as detention, imprisonment, exile, deportation or death as set out in Article 9(4) can result in separation. (...) The thematic discussion should follow the framework of Article 9 of the Convention and focus on protecting the human rights and best interests of children who are separated from their parents against their will, irrespective of the causes of the separation.

The statistics include step-parent adoption. 8 In 2015-2016 the number of children whose birth parents were indicated in birth certificates upon a court decision increased considerably (39 cases as opposed to 4 cases in 2012-2014). (...) A/HRC/34/55/Add.1 GE.16-22623 8 parents from Azerbaijan, through networks, for targeted begging. (...) In addition, this provision establishes that the commissioning couple are deemed to be the legal parents of the child while the donor or the surrogate mother has no right to be recognized as a parent of the child.

Of these, approximately 126,000 were affected by the migration of both parents, 50 per cent were below the age of 10, and 16 per cent had lived apart from their parents for more than one year.6 The phenomenon seems to be on the decline, since information provided by the National Authority for the Protection of Children’s Rights updated to include March 2009, showed that at least 51,790 children were left behind by one migrating family member. Of these, at least 10,995 had a single caregiving parent working abroad and 28,447 children had both parents working abroad. (...) L=1. 13 The full list of countries as provided by the Ministry of Labour is available at the Secretariat. 14 “National analysis of the phenomenon of children left home by their parents who migrate abroad for employment”, p. 19.

Children left behind as a consequence of parents’ emigration 57. A recent phenomenon, which has emerged as a consequence of the economic situation pushing parents to go abroad to find employment or better jobs opportunities, is what is referred to as “children left behind” without parental care. 58. (...) The law provides that parents emigrating need to notify authorities about this, but it was reported that few parents do so, and most of these situations remaining therefore undocumented. 59. (...) The Special Rapporteur appreciates the issue of children left behind as a consequence of parents’ emigration has been recognized by the Government as constituting a specific vulnerability risk that needs to be adequately addressed as a matter of priority. 2.

The desire of families to maintain contact with their child and the actual capability to do so have been screened, and as a result parents of 90 children have initiated to get in contact with them; parents of 30 children have telephoned the respective home looking for __________ b The Action Plan was further agreed by all relevant Ministries before the Council of Ministers approved it. c http://sacp.government.bg/detstvo-za-vsichki/ A/HRC/22/G/19 GE.13-12732 4 information about their child, and parents/relatives of 60 children have visited the home to meet their child. (...) The Project ‘I have a Family’ covers actions to decentralize and widen the scope of foster care and develops services in support of foster parents. Project is expected to run for the period 30 September 2011 – 31 October 2013.

Since the collapse of the Communist regime, a child’s parents have become primarily responsible for his or her care and many individuals are not equipped to handle this responsibility. (...) The children who visit the centre even though they are still living at home reported a very low level of awareness and understanding from their parents of what they had suffered. The staff of the centre reported regularly being confronted with situations in which a child had been scolded by her parents after confiding in them that she had been raped. (...) NGO sources in Moscow reported that an average of 1,000 children each year in Moscow are beaten and injured by their parents, sometimes so badly that they are handicapped. 61.

• Distribution of leaflets to parents, threatening them not to send their children to schools (...) They have also killed them because of intellectual or religious affiliations of their parents. The most famous cases in this regard were murdering the sons and nephews of General Tellawi, while he was taking them to school, in the beginning of 2012. Another child has been murdered in front of his A/HRC/24/G/5 GE.13-17042 4 parents and younger brother, in June 2012, because he appeared on TV while he was participating in a march supporting reform in Syria • Armed terrorist groups have targeted children in general, either to horrify their parents and force them to change their positions.

The Special Rapporteur encountered many children who had been placed in residential care because their parents lacked the means and support to take care of them. (...) Adoption is granted by a court upon application by the prospective adoptive parents and following a special procedure established by the Code of Civil Procedure. (...) Information on adoptive children and prospective parents should be accessible only to adoption bodies and professionals directly concerned with the matching process, not prospective parents. 36.