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Viewpoints
From Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe Commissioner
for Human Rights
• "Children
have the right to be heard and adults should listen to their views",
Universal Children’s Day", 20 November 2007 in Warsaw
• "Making
international and regional human rights complaint/communication mechanisms
child-friendly"
• “Listen
seriously to the views of children: viewpoint”
Children's participation is an on going process and
not a one-off event. Children played a key role in the Monaco launch
conference for the "Building a Europe for and with children" programme and
the United Nations conference on combating sexual exploitation of children.
They drafted their viewpoints into declarations on how to build a
better Europe for children and on the steps they deemed necessary to combat
sexual exploitation of children.
What children have
told us
Events
•
1-2 December
in Helsinki, - First meeting of the Ad Hoc Advisory group on child
and youth participation and Round Table discussion
Learn
more
• December 2008 in Strasbourg: Seminar on
“Children and young people in care – What do YOUth think?" Young people,
living or having lived in care institutions, drafted a set of
recommendations on how to better put existing standards into practice and
further develop the rights of children in out-of-home care.
Learn more
• 8-10 September 2008 in Stockholm: Seminar on
“Meaningful and sustainable child participation”, an event of the Stockholm
conference on “Building a Europe for and with children – towards a strategy
2009-11", 8-10 September in Stockholm
Seminar concept paper
Discussion guide
• Consultative
meeting on children’s participation, 6 December 2006 in Strasbourg:
Outline paper |
