Examples of using Caged beds in English and their translations into German
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There are no caged beds in any other accession country apart from these four.
What pressure can the Council bring to bear to end this outrageous use of caged beds?
That includes such things as caged beds, which should not be a part of any country's policy.
In this context we have also studied the suspicion about the use of caged beds in Romania.
The use of caged beds breaks international law: it is contrary to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and is condemned by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
If he does not know,I can tell him that there are no caged beds in any existing Member State.
The Commission has information that the Slovak Government has taken relevant measures andis at present working on a plan to phase out caged beds.
One example of particular concern is the continued andsystematic use of'caged beds' as a form of restraint in state institutions.
The Czech Government has assured the Commission that itis investigating the matter in detail in order to provide us with more precise information about the occasional use of caged beds.
Will it welcome the announcements in Hungary and Slovenia that caged beds are to be abolished, and will it continue to protest against their continued use in the Czech Republic and Slovakia?
One of the speakers was a young man called Michael,a 29-year-old who had been put in one of these caged beds for a week, unable to get out.
My final point is that the use of caged beds in some of the existing Member States is definable as inhumane and I hope to take that topic up with you personally as well.
As a result of this report,the Commission made enquiries about the exact position on the use of caged beds in these countries and drew the attention of the national authorities to the necessity to remedy this problem.
You are right that caged beds may be a problem in several countries, but I have noted with some satisfaction that this is not the case in many countries, although only in some is there is a strong trend towards abolishing this method.
I hope that you will say to Romania, as indeed to the othercountries that have engaged in this barbaric practice, that caged beds are inappropriate for children, the confused elderly or for people with mental health problems in any civilised country, and certainly in a Member State of this European Union.
That report points out that caged beds are still used to restrain people with mental disabilities in four accession countries, namely the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia.
Commissioner, if you really have not seen the evidence of the caged beds in Romania, I refer you to the front page story of a recent edition of the London and to the well-documented cases published by the Mental Disability Advocacy Centre.
So far as the problem of caged beds is concerned, which you raise in your question, the an international organisation for the promotion and protection of the rights of people with mental disabilities, presented a report to the European Parliament on 17 June.
As I said,we have never had any proof about the use of caged beds in Romania but, if you have some concrete evidence in this regard, I am willing to study it and I will ask my civil servants to take another look at it and we can then raise the matter with Romania if need be.
The Commission is aware of the use of caged beds within psychiatric and social care facilities in Hungary and Slovenia as well as in Slovakia and the Czech Republic and welcomes the report on this issue that was published in 2003 by the Mental Disability Advocacy Center.
The Commission will therefore be using every means at its disposal to pursue this matter further andwe shall not cease until the last caged bed has vanished from each of these countries.
I was particularly pleased also that my amendment regarding the use of cage beds in psychiatric institutions and social care homes was passed, and that it was recognised that this was in contravention of all international standards regarding the care of people with mental health problems and/or intellectual disabilities.
It was reported that Hungary has imposed a caged bed ban that will come fully into force at the beginning of 2005.