22 September 2006 - Update: The Secretary-General's Study on Violence against Children 20
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- Human Rights Council: Follow-up to the SG’s Study on Violence Against Children [event]
- Council of Europe prepares new treaty against sexual exploitation and abuse of children [news]
- Special CRINMAILs on Violence Against Children [news]
- Resources and News: Latest on the violence website
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Human Rights Council: Follow-up to the Secretary-General’s Study on Violence Against Children [event]
The Secretary-General’s Study on Violence against Children will be presented to the General Assembly in New York on 11 October 2006. As part of the launch, a series of events will be taking place during the 11th and 12th October, including a press conference, a launch event for the book, for the child friendly report and a high level roundtable meeting which will include dignitaries, experts, and children to debate follow up mechanisms.
Exact location and timing of these will be made available soon. Please check the UN Study website for more information. CRIN will also be reporting on events leading up to the launch and from the launch itself and will be sending out updates and making information available on its violence website.
In light of the launch of the Study, there will be a panel discussion in Geneva during the second session of the Human Rights Council to discuss follow-up to the Study’s recommendations.
The meeting will take place on Monday 25th September from 1 to 3 pm. Panelists will discuss possible follow-up mechanisms.
Participants include:
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Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Independent Expert leading the Study
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Mehr Khan Williams, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights
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Rima Salah, Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF
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Alexander Butchart, the Coordinator for Prevention of Violence, WHO
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Roberta Cecchetti, Convener of the NGO Group on Violence against Children
The panel will be chaired by Jaap Doek, Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
More information:
For more information, contact:
UN Secretary General's Study on Violence Against Children - Secretariat
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.violencestudy.org
Visit: http://www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=10336
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Council of Europe prepares new treaty against sexual exploitation and abuse of children [news]
[STRASBOURG, 13 September 2006] - The second meeting of the Committee of Experts on the protection of children against sexual exploitation and abuse (PC-ES) took place at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg from September 11 – 13. After talks with Minister Bindi, Deputy Secretary General and the Italian Minister for Family Affairs, who is attending the meeting of the Council of Europe Committee of Experts against sexual exploitation and abuse of children, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio made the following statement:
“The key to effective protection of children from sexual exploitation and abuse is to reinforce national measures and cross-border cooperation. The Council of Europe has begun to prepare a new treaty to do exactly that. The presence of the Italian Minister for Family Affairs, Ms Rosy Bindi at the first round of negotiations for the new treaty shows the importance the Italian government attaches to this issue as also evidenced by national measures. Other Governments also strongly argue that the time has come to move from concern to action and that common standards should be established to protect children’s physical and psychological integrity.
If the momentum of negotiations between governments is maintained, we should soon have an effective new legal instrument offering a ground-breaking approach to protect our children. Minister Bindi and myself agree that the new treaty should provide for child friendly judicial procedures, effective jurisdiction of the courts in Council of Europe member states regardless of the offenders’ nationality or whereabouts, measures to render difficult or even impossible the expiration of limitation periods for these crimes, effective, proportionate and dissuasive sanctions, and substantially improved international cooperation.”
Further information:
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Special CRINMAILs on Violence Against Children [news]
In light of the launch of the UN Study on Violence Against Children, we dedicated a series of special CRINMAILs to the various settings and forms of violence, looking at international laws and standards, relevant reports and news and events.
CRINMAIL 793: children and torture
CRINMAIL 799: Children Without Parental Care
CRINMAIL 801: Harmful Traditional Practices
CRINMAIL 805: Children in Conflict with the Law
CRINMAIL 809: Violence in Schools and Educational Settings
CRINMAIL 813: Neglect and Negligent Treatment
For more information, contact:
Child Rights Information Network
1 St John's Lane
London EC1M 4AR
Tel: + 44 20 7012 6866 or 67; Fax: + 44 020 7012 6899
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.crin.org
Visit: http://www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=10138
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Resources and News: Latest resources on the violence website
From Punishment to Problem Solving: A new approach to children in trouble, from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. The report says government policies are demonising and criminalising young people rather than addressing the reasons for their behaviour.Go to: http://www.crin.org/violence/search/closeup.asp?infoID=10334
CRIN Newsletter 19: Children and Violence (Arabic) http://www.crin.org/violence/search/closeup.asp?infoID=10314; or download the pdf here: http://www.crin.org/docs/Newsletter19_Arabic.pdf
Child Friendly Report of the Regional Consultation for the UN Study on Violence against Children, in South Asia, This is a joint report by Save the Children Sweden, Regional Office for South and Central Asia Region, UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia and Plan Nepalhttp://www.crin.org/violence/search/closeup.asp?infoID=10277
Right Now: To coincide with this year’s Day of General Discussion, CRIN has launched a new space on the website dedicated to children’s right to be heard. This space, Right Now, will provide resources and analysis on effective children and young people’s participation.
Information on the Day of General Discussion of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: To Speak, Participate and Decide – The Child’s Right to be Heard, 15 September 2006.
To submit information to CRIN for this web space, contact: [email protected].
News in Brief
How Pakistan's rape reform ran aground http://www.crin.org/violence/search/closeup.asp?infoID=10234
Guinea-Bissau: Proposed law to ban female genital mutilation http://www.crin.org/violence/search/closeup.asp?infoID=10243
Northern Ireland: Challenge to child smacking laws http://www.crin.org/violence/search/closeup.asp?infoID=10101
Papua New Guinea: Violence Against Women: Not Inevitable, Never Acceptable! http://www.crin.org/violence/search/closeup.asp?infoID=10086
More news here.
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