On 6-7 December 2022,  the Committee of the Parties to the Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (the Lanzarote Committee) held an extraordinary meeting. During this meeting, representatives of the Parties to the Lanzarote Convention decided, as a consequence of the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, to restrict the modalities of participation of the Russian Federation in the Lanzarote Committee (based on its revised Rules of Procedure). It was also agreed that its Secretariat would prepare a questionnaire to collect data on the occurrence of sexual violence against children in Parties to the Lanzarote Convention (with a view to updating information collected a decade ago prior to the launching of the ONE in FIVE Campaign). In addition, the Lanzarote Committee elected its new Bureau with Ms Maria José Castello-Branco (Portugal) as its Chairperson, Ms Svitlana Ilchuk (Ukraine) as Vice-Chairperson, and Ms Bertille Dourthe (France), Mr George Nikolaidis (Greece), Mr Páll Magnússon (Iceland), Ms Lorna Muscat (Malta) and Ms Jana Lovšin (Slovenia) as members of the Committee’s Bureau.

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