February 19 2002: CRINMAIL 359 Contents: - CAMPAIGN TO STOP CHILD TRAFFICKING: Terre des Hommes has Launched an International Campaign to Stop Child Trafficking [news] - CHILD LABOUR: Stopping the Economic Exploitation of Children: New Approaches to Fighting Poverty as a Means of Implementing Human Rights? [international conference] - CHILD SOLDIERS: UN Rep on Child Soldiers to Visit Guatemala [news] - CHILD RIGHTS CAUCUS: Clarification Regarding NGO Side Events at the Special Session [news] - CHILD RIGHTS PROGRAMMING: An Introduction to Child Rights Programming - Concept and Application [publication] - SEXUAL EXPLOITATION: Save the Children and the Second World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation in Yokohama December 17 ? 20, 2001 [publication] -SOMALILAND: Center for Child Rights - Organisational Profile [publication] Your submissions are welcome if you are working in the area of child rights. To contribute, email us at info@crin.org. Please note that we are unable to respond to emails addressed to crinmail_english@domeus.co.uk --------------------------------------------------- - CAMPAIGN TO STOP CHILD TRAFFICKING: Terre des Hommes has Launched an International Campaign to Stop Child Trafficking. [news] In October 2001, Terre des Hommes launched an international Campaign to Stop Child Trafficking. The campaign is run - together with local partners - by regional co-ordinators and delegates in Western and Eastern Europe, South East Asia, India, Latin America and in South and West Africa. The common goal is to provide better protection for children at risk and to ensure that offenders are effectively prosecuted. The fight against child trafficking will be conducted on three levels: - Creating awareness: By sensitising the public to the problem of child trafficking through information and public relations work and by calling for commitment to this cause. - Advocacy at the legal and political level: Child trafficking violates fundamental human rights and should be recognised as a crime against humanity. The States are called upon to ratify the existing conventions and protocols and to enact corresponding laws. - The campaign also calls for the establishment of national and international registration offices in order to document the dimensions of child trafficking. Registration of cases enables missing children to be found and helps in a more targeted approach in the fight against child trafficking. For further information, contact: Terre des Hommes, International Campaign Against Child Trafficking, Ruppenkampstrasse 11a, 49084 Osnabruck, Germany. Tel: 00 49 541 7101 182; Fax: 00 49 541 7072 33; Email: kinderhandel-kampagne@tdh.de [Source: Terre des Hommes, 12 February 2002] --------------------------------------------------- - CHILD LABOUR: Stopping the Economic Exploitation of Children: New Approaches to Fighting Poverty as a Means of Implementing Human Rights? [international conference] Date: February 22- 24, 2002 Location: Hattingen (Ruhr), Germany Implementing children?s rights to protection from economic exploitation requires that poverty be reduced. Combating poverty needs to be defined and designed so that it becomes a means of implementing the child's economic and social rights. The organising bodies of this conference include the German NGO Forum on Child Labour. For more information, contact: Klaus Heidel, Werkstatt Ökonomie e.V., Obere Seegasse 18, D-69124 Heidelberg, Germany. Tel: 00 49 0 6 221 720 296; Fax: 00 49 06 221 781 183; Email: klaus.heidel@woek.de; Website: www.woek.de Visit: http://www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=2401 --------------------------------------------------- - CHILD SOLDIERS: UN Rep on Child Soldiers to Visit Guatemala [news] The United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General on Children in Armed Conflict, Olara Otunnu, will make a visit to Guatemala for one week starting February 25th, 2002. The United Nations' representative will meet with, amongst others, the National Commission for the Search of Children - of which Casa Alianza is a member - which is actively searching for children who were lost or stolen from their parents during the 36 years of civil war in that country. The Commission was set up as an obligation under the Peace Accords signed five years ago which signalled the end of Guatemala's brutal civil war - but not the end of the grotesque social inequalities that caused the civil war in which upwards of 200,000 were killed, mostly by the military. Casa Alianza, in coordination with the Guatemalan League for Mental Health, is investigating more than 120 cases of children who were removed from their families during a series of military massacres in the highlands of Guatemala. Many of these children, now in their early twenties, ended up in the care of Casa Alianza in the 1980s. After 18 years of not seeing each other, three "lost" children have to date been reunited with their biological families as a result of these efforts. The visit of Otunnu will also mark the entrance into effect of an important international Protocol. On 25 May 2000, the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict. The Optional Protocol just recently came into force on 12 February 2002 and has to date been signed by 94 states and ratified by 14. Guatemala is not amongst them. For further information, contact: Casa Alianza. Tel: 00 506 253 5439; Email: info@casa-alianza.org; Website: www.casa-alianza.org For background information on child soldiers and children in armed conflict, please visit www.child-soldiers.org and www.crin.org [ Source: Casa Alianza 14 February 2002 ] --------------------------------------------------- - CHILD RIGHTS CAUCUS: Clarification Regarding NGO Side Events at the Special Session [news] In the last update to the Child Rights Caucus, it was incorrectly reported that side events during the upcoming UN Special Session were being consolidated. While the number of side events taking place inside the UN (primarily events being hosted by UN agencies and governments) may be reduced, NGO side events will not be affected, as most of these are being held outside of the UN premises. The coordinating group apologises for any confusion the previous update may have caused. The NGO Steering Group, which is responsible for coordinating NGO activities during UNGASS will shortly be requesting that those NGOs confirmed for side events last September reconfirm whether they intend to hold these events during the Special Session in May. The Steering Group has asked that all questions regarding side events scheduled outside the UN premises by the NGO steering group be addressed to: NGOCommittee@unicef.org For further information, contact Jo Becker by email at: beckerj@hrw.org For updates on the work of the Child Rights Caucus to date, go to: http://www.crin.org/specialsession --------------------------------------------------- - CHILD RIGHTS PROGRAMMING: An Introduction to Child Rights Programming - Concept and Application [publication] These guidelines have been prepared primarily as advice to SC UK staff on the principles and practice of child rights programming (CRP). They demonstrate the practical implications of adopting a rights-based approach to programming work with children. The guidelines aim to assist programme staff in thinking about the implications of CRP for their own work and to make available a range of ideas, examples and tools to help them do this. They aim to create a common understanding of both the concept and application of the CRP approach across the organisation, allowing programmes to both strengthen existing work and introduce the approach to new work. For further information, contact: Save the Children UK, 17 Grove Lane, London, SE5 8RD, UK. Tel: 00 44 20 7703 5400; Fax: 00 44 20 7793 7626; Email: enquiries@scfuk.org.uk; Website: www.savethechildren.org.uk Visit: http://www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=2408&flag=report --------------------------------------------------- - SEXUAL EXPLOITATION: Save the Children and the Second World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation in Yokohama December 17 ? 20, 2001 [publication] At the Second World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC), Save the Children Sweden represented the International Save the Children Alliance on the International Planning Committee of the congress. This report outlines Save the Children's participation and interest in this important event, including the creation of a new Alliance Task Group on Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, to be formed in January 2002. The report is available as a PDF at: http://www.crin.org/docs/resources/publications/RB_Yokohama.pdf For more information, contact: Save the Children Sweden, Torsgatan 4, SE 10788, Stockholm, Sweden. Tel: 00 46 8 698 9000; Fax: 00 46 8 698 9010; Email: info@rb.se; Website: www.rb.se Visit: http://www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=2384&flag=report --------------------------------------------------- - SOMALILAND: Center for Child Rights - Organisational Profile [publication] The Center For Child Rights (CCR), formerly known as the Somaliland Children's Assistance Organization, is an independent child rights research and action centre. It was established in December 1999 to conduct research, advocate and lobby to implement the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). The organisational profile of the CCR provides information on its work and can be read online at: http://www.crin.org/docs/resources/publications/CCR_Profile.pdf For more information, contact: Center for Child Rights Center for Child Rights, 4630 Abu-Dhabi U.A.E, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Tel: 00 252 2 740158; Fax: 00 252 2 743301; Email: arobleh76@hotmail.com Visit: http://www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=2381&flag=report --------------------------------------------------- The CRINMAIL is an electronic mailing list of the Child Rights Information Network (CRIN). CRIN does not accredit, validate or substantiate any information posted by members to the CRINMAIL. The validity and accuracy of any information is the responsibility of the originator.
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