"UN Child Rights treaty 20 years on: Implementation still not satisfactory"
says Commissioner Hammarberg
 [16/11/09
10:30]
“The 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of
the Child should be a moment of reflection: many children still
suffer grave violations. Their concerns are seldom given top
priority in politics" said Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe
Commissioner for Human Rights, in his latest Viewpoint published
today. “The Convention on the Rights of the Child has become one
of the most well-known and broadly supported international human
rights treaties. Yet, its actual implementation has been less
effective than we anticipated, mainly because of the absence of
a systematic, comprehensive approach to children’s rights as a
political priority.”
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 The
child’s right to respect: new publication on Janusz Korczak’s
work
[16/11/09
10:00]
On the initiative of Commissioner Hammarberg, the Council of
Europe published today the book “Janusz Korczak – The child’s
right to respect” which contains a series of five lectures held
across Europe from 2007 to 2009. The publication presents
an English translation of one of Korczak’s best-known texts, The
Child’s Right to Respect, which contains a summary of his
thinking on the relationship between children and adults. The
text is introduced by Sven Hartman, Professor of Pedagogy at
Stockholm University. The publication also contains a moving
testimony of Irena Sendlerova, a woman who herself saved
children from Nazi brutalities in the Warsaw Ghetto and who saw
Korczak, his colleagues and all the children from the orphanage
“My home” being marched to their death.
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 The
Joint Conference concerning Roma Migration and Freedom of Movement
[09/11/09
10:00]
The serious human rights
challenges faced by Roma when migrating or exercising their right to
freedom of movement, as well as the security implications, will be the
focus of a joint international conference in Vienna on 9-10 November
2009, organised by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA),
the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights (CommHR), the OSCE
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE
High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM). (more)
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