Publication details
Institutional violence against children: how to cope with the inevitable and the unconquerable
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
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| Description | This paper, produced for the Know Violence global learning initiative, looks at the violence children experience in closed institutions in the Central Asian countries, specifically the former Soviet republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. In these countries, despite considerable efforts to develop alternatives, the number of children placed in various residential care units remains extremely high. In-depth interviews with local experts and focus group discussions in these four countries were the main method of gathering data well as desk research focusing on statistical reports, analysis of residential care reports produced by the Ombudsmen, and various publications from the projects, which were involved in monitoring closed institutions and preventing violence against children in them. |