Newsletter January - February 2023




This Newsletter is available in English only but most of the News exist in French and can be consulted on our website.

Building a Europe for and with children


Monitoring activities

The Lanzarote Committee grants observer status to the Brave Movement and EVAC Fund, and adopts its 7th Activity report during its 37th meeting in Strasbourg


Co-operation activities

Conference on Barnahus as the model to comprehensive protection of child victims of sexual violence, Madrid

CoE/EU Barnahus joint project kicks off in Dublin


Other activities

Launch of experts report on the potential implications of the EU's Proposal for a Regulation to prevent and combat child sexual abuse

Council of Europe celebrates Safer Internet Day 2023

CoE/UNCHR roundtable: Protection of people fleeing Ukraine, in particular children and women in a vulnerable situation

Events to come

Looking for some resources on Children’s Rights?

Guide for children and young people to the Council of Europe Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2022-2027) is now available in French.
Thematic report of the Committee of Experts on Roma and Traveller Issues on legislation and policies related to begging, with special focus on children.
Child Participation Assessment Tool is now available in German thanks to the Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk.
Listen – Act – Change: Handbook on children’s participation for professionals working for and with children is now available in German thanks to the Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk.

Recent texts and decisions

Case-law of the European Court of Human Rights

Decision to return an abducted child to his father in the USA did not contravene the mother’s rights under the European Convention K. v. Cyprus
Criminal proceedings against child’s sexual abusers caused her further trauma B v. Russia
Labelling a book of fairy tales as harmful to children solely because of content breached the Convention Macatė v. Lithuania

Factsheets

Updated ECtHR factsheet on Protection of minors
Updated ECtHR factsheet on International child abductions
Updated ECtHR factsheet on Interim measures


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