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Building a Europe for and with children

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THE PROGRAMME
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
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Children in care

 		 Children's participation
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 		 Theseus- case law on children’s rights
CHILDREN AND VIOLENCE
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Viewpoints

}Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights: memorandum on corporal punishment (following visits to the UK in February and March 2008
 }Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe: "Raising children without violence"
}Thomas Hammarberg:  "The right not to be hit, also a children's right": issue paper (updated version: Jan. 2008) 
}Françoise Tulkens, judge of the European Court of Human Rights "Vers une Europe sans châtiments corporels: priorités et stratégies" (in French) Monaco conference workshop
}Thomas Hammarberg: "Europe is moving towards a total ban of domestic violence against children"

 

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