International Day of Children Victims of Agression 2022; June 4th.

FORUM: "Safeguarding the Rights of Child Victims of Crime." International Day of Children Victims of Agression 2022.

4 June acknowledges child victims of physical, mental and emotional abuse and affirms the world’s commitment to protecting the rights of all children, including the right to freedom from torture.

Over the past several years the IRCT has campaigned for the establishment of a Special Representative on Violence against Children. In its 62nd session in November 2007, the UN adopted a revised resolution for the promotion and protection of the rights of children, which included the creation of a Special Representative - though a person has not yet been appointed to fill this post.

High level political engagementsat country level Through SRSG’s in person and online country missions.

EVENTS

On this 4 June, Let's remind to United Nations Member states to take all necessary measures to protect our most vulnerable citizens from torture, ill-treatment and other forms of violence, in order to ensure that human rights also are children’s rights.

HIGH-LEVEL INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON THE RIGHTS OF CHILD VICTIMS OF CRIME AND THE ECTHR - Safeguarding the Rights of Child Victims of Crime.

E-PROTECT II International seminar.

Tuesday, 14 June 2022
14.30 – 16.30 (CET)

We are pleased to invite you to the high-level International seminar on the rights of child victims of crime and the ECtHR case law. During the seminar we will discuss, introduce and explore the case law of law of the European Court of Human Rights concerning the rights of child victims of crime, with the participation of Robert Spano - President of the European Court of Human Rights and Bragi Guđbrandsson, Founder of Barnahus in Iceland and Member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

The event will take place on 14/06/2022 and will start at 14:30 (CET) and will be held in English with simultaneous translation in Bulgarian, Greek, Italian and Romanian.

Agenda:

• 14 : 15       OPENING OF THE VIDEOCONFERENCE PLATFORM

• 14:30          WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

  - Pippo Costella , Defence for Children I taly

  OPENING REMARKS

  - Representative  of  the  Ministry  of  Justice,  I taly ( invited - tbc)

• 14:50        THE RIGHTS OF CHILD VICTIMS OF CRIME IN THE CASE LAW OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

  - President Robert Spano, European Court of Human Rights
• 15:20        QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
• 15:30        THE OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED BY THE ECTHR CASE LAW FOR THE MONITORING ROLE OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD

  - Bragi Guđbrandsson, Founder of Barnahus in Iceland and Member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child

• 15:55         STRENGTHENING THE COOPERATION BETWEEN CHILD PROTECTION, LAW ENFORCEMENT  AND  THE  JUDICIARY:  REFLECTIONS  AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SAFEGUARDING CHILD VICTIMS OF CRIME

  - Najat Maalla M’ j id, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General on Violence Against Children

• 16:20        DISCUSSION

• 16:30         CLOSURE OF SEMINAR

  - Pippo Costella , Defence for Children Italy

 

CAMPAIGN: Preventing and putting an end to torture and ill-treatment against children.