• 2023 Edition of the European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse will focus on learning from victims/survivors of childhood sexual violence to inspire policy change. In this context, we are conducting research to learn more about the various ways victims/survivors are already engaging with policy makers to inspire change. Please tell us about your activities by completing this online form by 20 September 2023. Provided information will inform a study on victim/survivor engagement.
• We are inviting organisations working on child participation and/or the protection of children against sexual abuse and exploitation, in the 48 State Parties to the Lanzarote Convention to carry out child participation consultations as a contribution to the next monitoring round of the Lanzarote Committee on the protection of children against sexual abuse in the circle of trust by 3 November 2023. The official call and related guidance will be published by the end of September.

• Guide for children and young people to the Council of Europe Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2022-2027) is now available in German 

• The following resources have been developed in the framework of CP4Europe project:
  • Child-friendly video on the Child Participation Assessment tool
  • Guidelines for developing a National Children's Participation Strategy
  • Let’s decide together! Guide to meaningful and effective engagement of children in decision-making processes
  • Measuring impact of the Child Participation Assessment Tool -  Outcome indicators and guidance for data collection
  • Moodle/Online Learning Platform on Child Participation
   

• The following resources have been translated into Spanish in the framework of the Barnahus Spain project: 
  • Video on Barnahus: long and short version 
  • Leaflet -  Protection of children against sexual exploitation and abuse: child-friendly, multidisciplinary and interagency response model inspired by the Barnahus model
  • Kiko and the Manymes video, book and guidelines for parents 
   

• Pompidou Group 2023 collection of publications on 'Children and families affected by parental drug use' 

Case-law of the European Court of Human Rights

Conditions of placement in administrative detention of the applicant and her minor son, aged seven and a half months at the relevant time, for a period of nine days with a view to their transfer to Spain amounted to a violation of Articles 3, 5§1 and 5§4 of the Convention: A.C. et M.C. c. France (in French)

Conditions of placement in administrative detention of a mother accompanied by her three minor children, aged eight months, six and thirteen respectively at the relevant time, for a period of ten days amounted to a violation of Articles 3, 5§1 and 5§4 of the Convention: A.M. et autres c. France (in French)

Authorities’ unjustified refusal to disclose information about the applicant’s son lead to the impossibility to exercise his parental rights for about five months and amounted to a violation of Article 8 of the Convention: Bogdanov v. Ukraine

Domestic authorities’ failure to take all necessary measures to enforce the applicant’s right to have contact and to establish a relationship with his daughters amounted to a violation of Article 8 of the Convention: I.S. v. Greece

Failure to provide adequate protection, in law and in practice, to a child victim of domestic violence amounted to a violation of Article 3 of the Convention: A.E. v. Bulgaria

Decisions by national courts resulting in consent to the children's change of domicile to the United States, justified by the best interests of the child: P.N. c. République tchèque (in French)

Bulgarian court’s final decision in proceedings about international child abduction lacked the elements necessary for a proper assessment of the best interests of the child and breached the applicant’s right to family life under Article 8 of the Convention: Kukavica v. Bulgaria

Child benefit is a proprietary interest of their parents falling within ambit of Art 1 P1. The denial of universal statutory child benefit to two mothers, lawfully present in the State, for non-fulfilment of domestic law habitual residence criterion amounted to no violation of the ECHR: X and Others v. Ireland

Violation of Articles 3 and 13 of the Convention in respect of the physical conditions of detention of a child held in prison with her mother, the medical treatment provided to him and the lack of an effective remedy: Neshcheret v. Ukraine