Handbook to support faith-based approaches to ending corporal punishment

This new handbook published jointly by the Churches' Network for Non-violence, the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children and Save the Children Sweden,aims to help those working with and within religious communities to harness faith-based support for reform in their efforts to end corporal punishment of children.

The conference on Prevention of young child abuse in Poland

The 4th national conference „Prevention of young child abuse" took place in Warsaw, 17th June 2011. The conference was organized by the Nobody's Children Foundation. During the conference the Alina Margolis-Edelman Award for outstanding work in the field of protecting children against abuse.

The Protection of Children Online: Risks Faced by Children Online and Policies to Protect Them

The report focuses on online risks for children and policies to protect them as Internet users. It examines direct and indirect policy measures available to OECD member and non-member countries to help mitigate risks for children online.

5th international conference about keeping children and young people safe online, 20-21 September 2011, Poland

The 5th International Conference “Keeping Children and Young People Safe Online” will be held on 20-21 September 2011 in Warsaw. The Conference is organized by the Polish (Nobody’s Children Foundation and NASK) and German (klicksafe) Safer Internet Centers, established within the European Commission’s Safer Internet Programme.  The conference is organized under the patronage of Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The main partner of the event is Orange Foundation.

Publication on child abuse prevention in Poland

A new volume of the NCF quarterly "Abused Child. Theory, Research and Practice" devoted to the topic "Prevention of child abuse" has been published in the end of May. The volume contains articles on preventive programmes about child trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and cyberbullying.

Manual on sexual abuse in Bulgaria

Manual" Sexual abuse - diagnosis and intervention" was prepared by Bulgarian and Polish experts and published by SAPI and aimed to support practitioners in their direct work with children victims of violence and their families.

Publications for professionals in Bulgaria

The publications are developed by SAPI on the base of Resilience approach. Two publications for parents and teachers "How to make children more resilent" are supposed to support teachers and parents in their common efforts to prevent violence against children through establishment of safe school environment for children.


Resource center in Romanian and Russian language

The Resource Center created by National Centre for Child Abuse Prevention http://amicel.cnpac.org.md/index.php?lang=ro addresses violence against children and features legal documents, laws, international documents, researches and media reports. In addition, the web site offers the opportunity to discuss within a forum and to ask CN PAC experts online questions. Access to information is ensured not only by the complexity of resources, but also by the fact that the subjects are provided to the audience in the Romanian and Russian languages.


International conference on the child-victim of crime in Lithuania

Children Support Centre organized an international conference "Child - victim of abuse: multidisciplinary attitude and international experience" on the 24th May in Vilnius, Lithuania. 150 specialists from Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Moldova, Ukraine and Bulgaria working in legal, child protection, social, psychological help fields participated in the conference.

Report on Vulnerability to Exploitation and Trafficking of Bulgarian Children and Adolescents in Greece

The immediate objective of this research is to give an indicative as well as detailed picture of the extent and specific dimensions of the phenomenon of child begging in Greece, particularly of children and families from Bulgaria. This group has increased rapidly in recent years, particularly in Northern Greece, with Thessaloniki - where the research was mostly carried out - as a main destination. The data gathering exercise lasted a month and through social work on the street and interviews with relevant services, providing thereby relevant information.