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Working together all of us can bring a prosperous world
to the children! "HELP
THE CHILDREN"
Electronic
Newsletter of
The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania - (CRCA) Financed by UK Department for International Development
Humanitarian Office (DFID) This Electronic Newsletter is received by more than 350
Albanian and Foreign NGO's, international organisations and agencies,
state bodies, donors individuals and other partners of CRCA. If you
would like to publish your news, reports, announcements, invitations or
other documents concerning children's rights or issues, please contact
with CRCA. #
74 - 21/02/2000
#1 - 19/05/1999 IN THIS ISSUE: ************************************************************************************************************** - FINAL ACT IN CHILD PROSTITUTION DRAMA ************************************************************************************************************** - CRCA NEW TRAINING COURSES FOR JUDGES AND POLICE ************************************************************************************************************** - CRCA NEW REPORT ABOUT CHILD LABOUR - SOON ************************************************************************************************************** - CRCA NEW REPORT ABOUT ROMA CHILDREN IN ALBANIA -SOON ************************************************************************************************************** FINAL ACT
IN CHILD PROSTITUTION DRAMA
Geneva: One last
act remains in the long battle for an international ban on child prostitution.
Earlier this month, a United Nations working group finished drafting a document aimed
at cracking down on the sale of children and on child pornography and
prostitution worldwide. Once approved, the
final text will become an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of
the Child. Just hours before
the end of their deliberations, the working group's chairman, Cuban diplomat Iván
Mora Godoy, considered approval of the draft a sure thing. But at the end of
the meeting, Mora said the Protocol had been adopted 'ad referendum' of
the next meeting to be held by the working group, in late March. The adoption of
the Protocol depends on the resolution of a long-running dispute over a clause that
France wants included, and which the United States refuses to sign. The French
delegation insists that only countries which have ratified the Convention on the Rights of
the Child should be allowed to sign the Protocol. The United States and Somalia
are the only UN member nations that have not formally committed to the
treaty. The
representatives of France set forth the same demand last month when
another UN working group
was discussing a different optional Protocol to the same Convention. The
Protocol prohibiting the use of child soldiers was finally approved after
France withdrew - at the 11th hour - its exigency, which also pitted it
against the United States. But the French did
not back down this time and gave committee members instead a taste of sour
grapes. International
procedures stipulate that now the draft document must be approved by the UN's Human
Rights Commission and General Assembly. The outstanding
feature of the Protocol is that it mandates the establishment of punishments for
offences involving the sale of children or child prostitution or pornography,
said Mora. Child prostitution
is said to be one of the worst contemporary forms of slavery. Children involved
suffer extreme physical, psychological, and emotional abuse. They risk drug
addiction, early pregnancy, social alienation, and deadly sexually transmitted
infections. The use of
children for prostitution has been increasing not only in Asia but also in Africa,
Europe and the Americas. Source of
Information: Child Labour News Service CRCA
NEW TRAINING COURSES FOR JUDGES AND POLICE
Children's Human
Rights Centre of Albania - CRCA in partnership with Save the Children
Albania from today 23rd Feb until 25th of February is organising an
intensive CRC three day training course with the participation of judges,
prosecuters, police officers, prisons directors from Tirana. The objectives of
this training course are: - Rising the
awareness on CRC and about children's rights to professionals such as
judges, prosecutors, prisons officers, NGO member etc. - Training of
professionals in order to improve children's rights towards a friendly
environment in courts, prisons, media, school etc. - Establish a
network of professionals as potential trainers in the near future. - Establish links
between the professionals and the NGO members and other partners of CRCA. - To evaluate the
needs for training of the judges, police officers, prisons structures etc. During three days
of the training CRCA trainers will offer to the participants a range of
modules starting from CRC history, principals and then to the Rules of UN
for the administration of juvenile justice. Three workshops will be
organised during the training. Other partners
from Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Public Order, Directorate of Prisons
will attend the training also. Albania yet does
not have a well-established system and structures of the juvenile justice
and until recently the children from 14- 18 in prisons were living at the
same prisons with the adults. Little is known about children in police
stations but it is accepted by the officials of the Ministry of Order that
the violence has been used in different cases by the police officers
against children. CRCA
NEW REPORT ABOUT CHILD LABOUR - SOON
Would you like to
know more about CHILD LABOUR in Albania? What forms of child labour and
where? What are the main violations? Has the Government done everything to
protect children from employment? What consequences there have been
producing the conflict of national law with the international conventions? All these issues
in a report prepared by Children's Human Rights Centre in partnership with
Save the Children - Albania. We have recently
completed visits to five Albanian cities Berat, Gjirokastra,Vlora,
Shkodra,Tirana and Korça. The report will be published sometime next week. For all of you who would like to receive a copy of the report on child labour issues in Albania (text format) please don't hesitate to request for a copy via e-mail with CRCA.
Overview
of Electronic Newsletter
This Electronic
Newsletter is prepared by S.Thornton Barkley and Altin Hazizaj
of The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania - CRCA. The opinions
expressed in this electronic publication do not necessarily represent the
policies or opinions of the CRCA.
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