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Catalogue by titles / Abandoned to the state. Cruelty and neglect in Russian orphanages

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ISS/IRC Code	TOOL-PRACTICE RUS-001(FL)
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Title	Abandoned to the state. Cruelty and neglect in Russian orphanages
Author	Human Rights Watch
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Date published/issue	12-00-1998
Date received	00-00-0000
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Publisher	Human Rights Warch http://www.hrw.org/
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Page	133
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ISBN	1-56432191-6
Type of material	Book
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Document description	Report
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Index	Legislation-comment Abandon-cause Conv-crc-implement Child-health-info Institution-child Orphan Abandonment Neglect
Free text	In this report available at http://www.hrw.org/reports98/russia2 Human Rights Watch documented the treatment of the abandoned children in the Russian orphanages. The authors show how in Russian orphanages, thousands of children are exposed to appalling levels of cruelty and neglect by the institution staff. From the moment the state assumes their care, "orphans" in Russia, 95 percent of whom have at least one living parent, are shockingly mistreated. Infants classified as disabled are segregated in "lying-down" rooms, where they are changed and fed, but bereft of stimulation and essential medical care. Those who are officially diagnosed as "imbeciles" or "idiots" at age four are condemned to life in little more than a warehouse, where they may be restrained in cloth sacks, tethered by a limb to furniture, denied stimulation, training, and education. These children suffer a lifelong stigma that robs them of fundamental economic, social, civil and political rights guaranteed by international treaties. (adapted from publishers web site http://www.hrw.org/children/abandoned.htm)