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Save the Children Europe Group has an
advocacy office in Brussels and works towards
its goals by conducting research and lobbying
the EU institutions. Save the Children Europe
Group also works with other nongovernmental
organisations (NGO networks) in the fields of
social policy, development, asylum and poverty.Current activities include:
- ensuring children’s rights are a political
priority for the new European Commission and
Parliament and for the EU Presidency
- ensuring that the references in the EU
Constitution on children’s rights (once
adopted) are implemented
- combating the sexual abuse and exploitation
of children by working together to exchange
best practice on prevention methods and
victim assistance
- assisting separated children who arrive in or
cross Europe by influencing the debates on a
common asylum policy at European level
- working with other Save the Children
organisations to monitor and influence EU
policies on children and online pornography
and making proposals promoting children's
rights
- ensuring that children’s rights are taken into
account in all aspects of the EU’s development
and humanitarian aid work
- bringing attention to the issue of children
and armed conflict in all aspects of the EU’s
external policies and action
