COUNCIL OF EUROPE: Child rights strategy meeting underway

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The Council of Europe’s child rights strategy meeting kicked off today in Stockholm, Sweden. The meeting will cover three main themes: violence against children, child-friendly justice and child participation.

The aim of the three-day conference is to assess progress made since the launch of the Council of Europe programme “Building a Europe for and with children” in April 2006, discuss ways to support the implementation of the recommendations of the UN Study on Violence against Children, and identify a programme strategy for 2009-2011.
Three seminars on the first day will be followed by high-level plenary sessions on days two and three.

The conference, which is organised under the Swedish chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers (May – November 2008), will bring together some 300 representatives from governments, international organisations and institutions, NGOs and professional networks, parliamentarians, local authorities, ombudspersons, judges, children’s advocates and young people.

Read a report on child friendly justice at the meeting

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