International Union for Child Welfare

Today, as wars and political upheavals rob people of the conditions for survival and create refugees, it is the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) that is providing assistance to refugee children. Meanwhile, private international children's organizations include the International Social Service (ISS), which has a long history in international adoption, the International Red Cross, which is involved in child rescue work, and the International Union for Child Welfare, which serves as an international liaison and coordination organization for child welfare.
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Although Japan is an industrialized nation that boasts one of the world's highest gross national product levels, there are still cases of infanticide known as mother-child suicide, people being forced to go out to work in private facilities under poor conditions, and many other serious situations that call into question the very protection of children's right to life.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "International Union for Child Welfare" is listed below.

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…今日戦争や政変が人間の生存条件を奪い，難民を生む中で，難民児童に援助の手をさしのべているのは国連難民高等弁務官事務所(UNHCR)である。　一方，民間サイドの国際児童機関としては国際養子縁組で長い歴史をもつ国際社会事業団(ISS)や，児童の救護事業にかかわる国際赤十字や，児童福祉の国際的連絡調整機関である国際児童福祉連合(International Union for Child Welfare)がある。
【児童福祉の今後の課題】
　国民総生産高では，日本は世界のトップ･レベルを誇る先進工業国でありながら，いまだ母子心中という名の子殺しが行われたり，劣悪な条件下にある私的施設を利用して働きに出なければならなかったり，児童の生存権保障すら疑われる深刻な事態も多く存在する。…

※「International Union for Child Welfare」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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