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Children's Rights
Newsletter March - April 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
Building a Europe for and with children



Intergovernmental activities
Steering Committee for the Rights of the Child met in Reykjavik
Steering Committee for the Rights of the Child met in Reykjavik
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Outcome of the CJ/ENF-ISE meeting on the rights and best interests of the child in parental separation proceedings
Outcome of the CJ/ENF-ISE meeting on the rights and best interests of the child in parental separation proceedings
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Co-operation activities
Conference on Protecting the rights of Ukrainian children during and in post-war context
Conference on Protecting the rights of Ukrainian children during and in post-war context
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Conference on Protecting the rights of Ukrainian children during and in post-war context
Training of Finnish prosecutors, judges and investigators on preventing and combating online child sexual abuse
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Other activities
Launch of the joint Country Overview on ending child-sexual abuse and exploitation in Finland
Launch of the joint Country Overview on ending child-sexual abuse and exploitation in Finland
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Launch of the joint Country Overview on ending child-sexual abuse and exploitation in Finland
Commissioner for Human Rights' calls for urgent action to reunite Ukrainian children transferred to Russia and Russian-occupied territories with their families
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Events to come
Lanzarote Committee Capacity building events on Statutes of limitation in
respect of sexual offences against children and Approaches to the legal age for sexual activities, 31 May 2023, Strasbourg and online. The events will be livestreamed.

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Looking for some resources on Children’s Rights?
Looking for some resources on Children’s Rights?
 
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Recent texts and decisions

Case-law of the European Court of Human Rights

  • Domestic courts’ decision prohibiting contact between former foster parents and their foster child corresponded to the child’s best interests, was taken within the margin of appreciation and was based on relevant and sufficient reasons: Jírová and Others v. the Czech Republic

  • Failure of domestic authorities to take necessary and timely steps to enforce the applicants’ contact rights with his daughter amounted to a violation of Article 8 ECHR: E.K. v. Latvia

  • Order, without proportionality assessment, for demolition of unlawfully erected building, the home of the applicant and her minor children amounted to a violation of article 8 ECHR: Simonova v. Bulgaria

  • Primary school’s response, including reasonable adjustments, to aggressive and disruptive behaviour of child diagnosed with hyperkinetic and scholastic-skills disorder did not amount to a violation of Article 14 of the Convention taken in conjunction with Article 2 of Protocol No. 1: T.H. v. Bulgaria

  • Refusal by German courts to allow transgender parent who gave birth to a child to be recorded as father did not violate Convention: O.H. and G.H. v. Germany (in French), press release

  • Refusal of German authorities to record a transgender parent as mother on birth certificate of child to whom she had not given birth did not violate Convention: A.H. and Others v. Germany (in French), press release

  • Reasoned decision enforcing return order of applicant’s child to the USA under the Hague Convention in compliance with Article 8 ECHR procedural requirements and with child’s best interests being primary consideration: X. v. the Czech Republic

  • Hungary must develop a policy to put a stop to segregation in education. The difference in treatment which the applicant was subjected to in his education and the lack of national adequate measures with a view to correcting the situation and avoiding the resultant discrimination amounted to a violation of Article 14 taken in conjunction with Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention: Szolcsán v. Hungary, press release

  • Restriction of remand prisoner’s family visits with wife and ten-year-old daughter during first nine months of detention based on unsubstantiated risk of interference with ongoing investigations amounted to a violation of Article 8 ECHR: Deltuva v. Lithuania

  • Domestic courts’ refusal to allow applicant and her child to move residence to Canada, in absence of father’s consent, was based on child’s best interests and in compliance with Article 8 ECHR: Simona Mihaela Dobre v. Romania

 
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