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Summary: Electronic Newsletter of The
Children's Human Rights Centre
of Albania - CRCA. Edition 109 -
21/09/2001
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Working together, all of us can bring a prosperous world to the
children!
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"HELP THE CHILDREN"
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Electronic Newsletter of The Children's Human Rights Centre of
Albania - CRCA
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This Electronic Newsletter is prepared by the Information and
Research Centre for Children's Rights in Albania - IRCCRA.
More than 400 Albanian, Kosovan and Foreign NGOs, international
organisations and agencies, state bodies, donors, individuals,
and other partners of CRCA receive this Electronic Newsletter. If
you would like to publish your news, reports, announcements,
invitations, or other documents concerning children's rights or
issues, please contact with IRCCRA.
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The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania - CRCA is:
- Associate Member DEFENCE FOR CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL -
DCI
- Founding Member SOUTH EAST EUROPEAN CHILD RIGHTS
ACTION NETWORK -SEECRAN
- Funding Member EASTERN & CENTRAL EUROPEAN & BALTIC
NETWORK OF NGOs ON MONITORING CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
- Founding Member ALBANIAN CHILDREN'S RIGHTS NETWORK -
ACRN
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Edition 109 # 21/09/2001
# First edition - 19/05/1999
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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- PRESS RELEASE - FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF SEECRAN
- SECOND MEETING OF EASTERN & CENTRAL EUROPEAN & BALTIC
NETWORK OF NGOs ON MONITORING CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
- DECLARATION AGAINST RACISM AND CHILD LABOUR
- Overview of the Electronic Newsletter
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PRESS RELEASE - FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF SEECRAN
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PRESS RELEASE
18/09/2001
The South East European Child Rights Action Network (SEECRAN)
holds first General Assembly in Sofia, Bulgaria
From 8-10 September 2001 the South East European Child Rights
Action Network (SEECRAN) held its first ever General Assembly in
Sofia (Bulgaria).
This Assembly was attended by more than 25 representatives
from over 20 child-oriented organisations from Albania, Bulgaria,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Macedonia,
Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia. At the Assembly,
three priorities were identified for joint regional networking
intitiatives: Children from minority groups, Children without
parental care and Juvenile justice.
SEECRAN is a network of non-governmental organisations,
agencies, institutions and individuals promoting the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child in the South-East European
region. It is currently funded by Save the Children Norway and
Save the Children UK.
The main objectives of SEECRAN include:
-Understanding and acceptance of the principles of the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child among children and adults
in the South-East European region
-Partnership, co-operation and joint strategies on national and
regional (bilateral and multilateral) level as a practical model of
strengthening the civil society
- Improving the situation of children in the region through
improvements in child policies and practices
SEECRAN is a direct result of the Balkan Child Rights Initiative
(BCRI) project and active participation of NGOs from the South-
East European region. SEECRAN is also an important meeting
point and regional child rights stronghold in the South-East
European region. The central focal point of the network is
situated in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The General Assembly is a unique opportunity for the member
organisations to have direct contacts, to know each other and
each other's projects better and to discover new areas and
possibilities for networking. The main objective of this meeting
was therefore to strengthen the existing cross-border co-
operation and to share information on participant's
successful projects and best practices that will form the basis of
future regional initiatives.
At the conclusion of the debates and workshops, three main
priorities were identified for joint regional networking initiatives.
Being a creative network of children's rights based NGOs
SEECRAN will engage in finding solutions and develop initiatives
in these 3 spheres:
1.Children from minority groups
2.Children without parental care
3.Juvenile justice
The first programme on Children from minority groups aims to
integrate minorities into the societies of the Balkan countries. The
key objectives of this programme will therefore be to: improve
the education level of minority children; increase the awareness
about the importance of education; improve the image of Roma
minority in the media and increase the active participation of the
Roma community.
The second programme on Children withouth Parental Care will
deal with regional assessment of good practices, exchange of
information, providing alternatives, finding legal gaps and
promoting community-based services.
Finally, the third programme on Juvenile Justice will mainly focus
on the topics of child abuse and child trafficking, which are a
growing problem throughout the region. These issues will be
tackled through reform of the legislation, improvement of the
procedures and direct help to young offenders.
Underlying all 3 programmes, the importance of local NGO
development was also once again stressed.
The new SEECRAN Governing Board which was elected at the
Assembly consists of Ivanka Ganozova (European Children's
Trust, Bulgaria), Aurela Pano (Children's Human Rights Centre of
Albania), Adina Ploaie (Save the Children Romania) and Nevena
Serafimova (Save the Children Macedonia). Antonia Haga
(Partners Hungary) was elected president of the Governing
Board. Also the first steps were taken to install the SEECRAN
Steering Committee, which consists of the coordinators of the
network at a national level.
The General Assembly of SEECRAN was followed by a two-day
training on the Separated Children in Europe programme. This
programme was established in 1997 as a response to the
situation of separated children in European countries. It seeks to
improve the situation of separated children through
research, policy analysis and advocacy at the national and
regional levels. It is a joint initiative of UNHCR and Save the
Children and is based on the complementary mandates and
areas of expertise of the two organisations
The training focused mainly on introducing the Separated
Children in Europe programme and the Separated Children
Statement of Good Practice. The participants could also share
their national experience with regard to Separated Children.
For more information, please contact:
Kris Vanhemelryck
SEECRAN
Information Officer
Tel.: +386 1 438 52 50
E-mail: [email protected]
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SECOND MEETING OF EASTERN & CENTRAL EUROPEAN & BALTIC
NETWORK OF NGOs ON MONITORING CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
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The second meeting of the "Eastern and Central European and
Baltic Network of NGOs on Monitoring Children's Rights" will take
place in Mangalia, Romania on 23rd- 26th of September 2001.
The main objective of this meeting is to evaluate the activity of the
network since November 2000. Also, the meeting will adopt a
strategy for the next year and time schedule for the regional
research on child participation. The conference will bring together
NGOs in the field of child protection in Eastern and Central Europe
and Baltic Countries.
For more information please contact:
Adina Ploaie
Salvati Copiii
E-mail: [email protected]
website http://www.mcrnet.ro
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DECLARATION AGAINST RACISM AND CHILD LABOUR
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4 September 2001
Every day children are born into a world where racism and
discrimination limit their future choices. Children from minority and
indigenous groups and from lower castes are denied the right to
an adequate quality education and a happy childhood, solely due
to their race, ethnicity, colour, caste, or social origin. Instead
many have to work under atrocious conditions as bonded
labourers, child servants and child prostitutes. These unfortunate
children are caught behind invisible walls of ignorance,
discrimination and hatred.
Racial discrimination and child labour perpetuate each other. The
children of minority and indigenous communities are born into a
vicious cycle of poverty in which they are forced to work since
their parents cannot afford their education and depend on their
extra income. Denied their right to education, these children are
bound to stay illiterate and vulnerable unless we take action to
break the cycle of poverty and provide them with an empowering
education. These children, and in turn their own children,
will all be victims of discrimination unless we face this challenge
now.
The Global March Against Child Labour represents over 2,000
partners in 140 countries. We strongly feel that quality education
for all children without discrimination is an essential way to
eliminate racism and other forms of discrimination. Moreover,
special emphasis should be given to the situation of minority
children within the broader efforts to end child labour.
Therefore, the Global March Against Child Labour calls for:
· The world community to recognise that child labour and denial of
education are vital links in the chain that perpetuates racism and
discrimination
· Civil society to eradicate the belief among majority social, ethnic
and racial groups that minority children are born to work
· ILO, UNICEF, UNHCHR and other UN Agencies to make the
elimination of child labour of minority children one of their top
priorities for action
· National commissions against racism and other forms of
discrimination to address child labour among minority children as
one of their key issues
· National programmes for the elimination of child labour to pay
particular attention to protecting minority children from child
labour and providing them with quality education
· Organisations fighting against racism and other forms of
discrimination to make special efforts to prevent child labour and
the denial of education to children of minority groups
· Governments and communities to make all possible efforts to
ensure that the children of minority groups fully enjoy their right
to quality education, including:
* addressing inequalities in funding, training, and support for
schools in areas dominated by minority groups
* addressing the issue of high drop-out rates among students
from minorities
* ending the use of corporal punishment in school, noting that it
has been selectively used to suppress children of minority groups
* ensuring the full enforcement of compulsory education laws,
noting that the non-compliance with these laws leaves minority
children outside the education system
* providing anti-racism training for teachers to ensure that no
child is discriminated against at school
* teaching all students to understand and respect racial, social,
ethnic and religious differences
* providing scholarships and financial assistance as needed to
support the education of children from minority groups
· Governments to enact and enforce strict penalties to deter
employers from using children of minority groups as a source of
cheap labour
· Governments to take effective action to remove racism and bias
among labour inspectors, and to appoint and empower
representatives of minority groups as child protection officers to
prevent the exploitation of minority children
· Governments and civil society to eradicate the practice of using
children from minority groups as domestic servants, noting that it
perpetuates a belief of superiority among children and adults of
the majority group and feelings of subservience among children
of the minority group
· Governments and civil society to inform all children of minority
groups of their rights as children and human beings, and to
establish effective mechanisms for them to defend those rights
· Governments to uphold their promise to provide rehabilitation,
education and financial assistance as needed for children from
minority groups removed from the worst forms of child labour
· ILO and UNHCHR to research and publish a report on the
exploitation of children of minority groups as child labourers
· National census surveys and other research efforts to report on
the exploitation of minority children as child labourers
· Media to investigate the economic exploitation of minority
children and bring this issue to the attention of the public
· IMF and World Bank to be held accountable for their policies and
actions that perpetuate child labour and lead to the exploitation
of minority children
· Governments to give priority to promoting employment
opportunities and the economic development of families of
minority groups
· Governments to report annually on the per capita amount spent
on education and social services for minority children, and to
ensure that this is no less than the amount spent on children of
the majority groups
· All governments and people to pledge that children from
minority groups will enjoy their full rights as the children of one
united human race
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Overview of Electronic Newsletter
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This Electronic Newsletter is prepared by the Information and
Research Centre for Children's Rights in Albania (IRCCRA), a unit
managed by CRCA.
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necessarily represent the policies or opinions of the Children's
Human Rights Centre of Albania - CRCA or those of IRCCRA.
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Phone: ++ 355 4 26 30 10
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