IT'S ABOUT ABILITY

PODGORICA, APRIL 25, 2013 - Montenegrin national handball team player, Olympic silver medalist and European champion, Anđela Bulatović, together with UNICEF and Special Olympics representatives, presented the new It’s About Ability campaign TV commercial.

IT'S ABOUT ABILITY

PODGORICA, APRIL 11, 2013 - Within the “It’s about ability” campaign, a social network of teachers and parents supporting inclusive education of children with visual impairments has been established.

MEDIA AND CHILD RIGHTS

PODGORICA, APRIL 3, 2013
UNICEF and the Faculty of Political Science in Podgorica today launched the child rights syllabus aimed at developing responsible news reporting skills that respect child rights. 

CHILD PROTECTION

PODGORICA, MARCH 22, 2013 – The first national child protection database was launched in Montenegro, with the aim to provide reliable data on the situation and needs of children, as well as on protection measures and services provided to them by the social welfare centres.

CHILD PROTECTION

PODGORICA, MARCH 14-16, 2013 – More than 60 professionals from the local commissions for orientation of children with special educational needs in Montenegro completed training on assessing and identifying children with autism in order to refer them to the formal educational system in accordance with the specific needs of the child.

DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

PODGORICA, MARCH 13, 2013 – Bureau of Education and the Ministry of Interior - Division for Emergency Situations and Civil Security, in cooperation with UNICEF, are implementing a project titled “Emergency Preparedness, Response and Disaster Risk Reduction in Montenegro”.

FOSTERING

PODGORICA, MARCH 11, 2013 - Twenty-six professionals from the Social Work Centres, Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, and Children’s Home “Mladost” completed the training of trainers of foster families in Montenegro, in order to contribute that every child in Montenegro grows up in a safe and warm family environment.

MICS

PODGORICA, MARCH 5, 2013 – The Director of the Statistical Office of Montenegro Gordana Radojevic, UNICEF Montenegro Representative Benjamin Perks and Head of Demography and Population Census Department in the Statistical office of Montenegro Snezana Remikovic successfully launched the conducting of the fifth round of Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS5), on Tuesday, March 5, 2013.

INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

GENEVA, MARCH 1, 2013 — UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ms. Yoka Brandt, urged governments to accelerate their reform of the education systems to increase support for children with disabilities.

IT'S ABOUT ABILITY

PODGORICA, FEBRUARY 22, 2013 – Igor Luksic, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration and Benjamin Perks, UNICEF Representative in Montenegro discussed today on achieved results in implementation of UNICEF’s program in Montenegro with the focus on inclusion of persons with disabilities, as well as upcoming participation of Montenegrin government delegation in the Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council.

IT'S ABOUT ABILITY

NEW YORK, 6 February 2013 – 
At a briefing that is focusing on the issue of children with disabilities, on the margins of the First Regular Session of the UNICEF Executive Board in New York, delegates from Montenegro share the experience in advancing the realization of the right of children with disabilities to quality education.

Social inclusion

VIRPAZAR, MONTENEGRO 24 – 26 January, 2013 - Roma, Egyptian and Ashkali youth from Nikšić and Berane attended a three-day seminar in Virpazar held for the purpose of building their capacity and leadership within the Roma community and society at large.

IT'S ABOUT ABILITY

PODGORICA, 22 January 2013 – Every second citizen (49 per cent) learned something new about children with disability from the It’s about ability campaign, while one in five (19 per cent) changed attitudes and one in four (25 per cent) changed positively the behaviour towards children with disability according to the latest KAP survey conducted in December 2012. 

IT'S ABOUT ABILITY

PODGORICA, JANUARY 16, 2013 – Based on the UNICEF resource pack on producing effective communication for children “Communicating with Children” (http://www.unicef.org/cwc/ ) by Barbara Kolucki and Dafna Lemish, UNICEF Montenegro supported the Montenegro Media Institute to train a group of young people with and without disability to become TV reporters on inclusion.

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