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Committee of Ministers : Joint statement on the second European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse issued by 33 member States of the Council of Europe.
The following countries have supported this statement: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Republic of Moldova, Monaco, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania,...
Secretary General urges more assistance to victims - Press release
Strasbourg, 17.11.2016 – Ahead of the European Day on the protection of children against sexual exploitation and sexual abuse marked on the 18th of November, Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjørn Jagland called on European states to step up providing assistance to survivors. “There...
Statement by Mr Pedro Agramunt, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)
On the occasion of the European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse 2016, Pedro Agramunt, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), made the following statement: “The Parliamentary Assembly has always defended the human...
Video statement by Ms Snežana Samardžić-Marković, Council of Europe’s Director General of Democracy
Statement by Mr Claude Janizzi, Chair of the Lanzarote Committee
"The European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse is closely linked to the objectives which member states of the Council of Europe have set themselves in bringing the Lanzarote Convention into force. Through its monitoring mechanism, the Convention on...
"Irregular migrant children are among the most vulnerable", says Council of Europe’s Anti-racism Commission
Strasbourg, 14.11.2016 - 18 November will mark European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse. The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) recently adopted its General Policy Recommendation (GPR) No. 16 on safeguarding irregularly present...
Statement by Mr Jürgen Ligi, Chair of the Committee of Ministers and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Estonia
“The fundamental rights of far too many children are being violated across our Continent, on a daily basis. In the light of this reality, Estonia, currently chairing the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, has placed the protection of children’s rights at the heart of its agenda...
Video Statement by Ms Gudrun Mosler-Törnström, President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe
Video Statement by Ms Gudrun Mosler-Törnström, President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe
Video statement by Ambassador Tomáš Boček, Special Representative of the Secretary General on Migration and Refugees
Statement by Mr Guido Raimondi, President of the European Court of Human Rights
"As far back as the early 1980s, the European Court of Human Rights deemed it essential to protect minors with regard to sexual abuse. It considered that this concerned essential aspects of private life and that only criminal legislation could guarantee the effective prevention needed in this...
