International Juvenile Justice Observatory is organizing international conference titled "Building integrative juvenile justice systems: Approaches and methodologies regarding mental disorders and drugs misuse". The conference will take place in Rome, Italy on 9th and 10th November 2010.
The conference is connected with analysis and comparison project run by IJJO in cooperation with a number of European organizations and institutions that share its interest and concern regarding the situation of young offenders in Europe.

Child in the City Foundation, the European Network of Child Friendly Cities and UNICEF are organising the 5th Child in the City Conference. The conference will take place on 27th - 29th October 2010 in Florence (Italy) with fully support of UNICEF and Istituto degli Innocenti, the city, region and province of Florence. Child in the City aims at encouraging cities all over Europe to create a child friendly public space. What started as a small event in 2002, has in ten years time grown into an inspiring European movement to promote the local implementation of the Convention of the Rights of the Child. By exchanging their experiences, cities themselves have been providing the energy for this movement.

All citizens and organizations, especially those dealing with children's rights, are welcome to contribute to the consultation of European Commission's Communication on the Rights of the Child (2011-2014). The objective of the Communication is to further advance the EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child, first launched in 2006.

A study carried out by Terre des hommes in Belgium, France, Spain and Switzerland on the disappearance of unaccompanied foreign minors placed in institutions. The study has been conducted in 2008 and 2009. It's main value is that it deals with an issue which receives too little attention and aims to make visible children who had become invisible. The report of the study is based on comparison of the situation in four European countries receiving migrant children, and formulates a series of universal recommendations based on these observations.

Polish (Nobody's Children Foundation and NASK) and German (klicksafe.de) Safer Internet Centers are pleased to invite you to attend the 4th International Conference "Keeping Children and Young People Safe Online", which will take place at the Novotel Airport Hotel in Warsaw, on 28th - 29th September 2010.
The Warsaw conference will bring together approx. 500 representatives from the education sector, NGOs, law enforcement, government and industry. It will address a wide variety of issues relating to children and young people's safety online, such as the use of social networking sites, privacy, safe use of mobile phones, online games, etc.

On June 8th, the Polish Safer Internet Centre (Nobody's Children Foundation, NASK), together with the Children's Ombudsman and under the patronage of Polish National Police, inaugurated the new edition of the „Child on the Web" social campaign under the slogan "Every move online leaves a trace...".

The Italian NGO Group for the CRC will host the 6th Regional Meeting of NGOs Children's Rights Coalitions in Europe, which will take place in Florence, Italy from 20th to 22nd October 2010. The main aim of the meeting is to increase knowledge and improve effectiveness of children's rights coalitions.

12th ISPCAN European Regional Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect arranged by the University of Tampere and ISPCAN (International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect), together with NASPCAN (The Nordic Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect) will take place on 17 - 21 September 2011 in Tampere, Finland. The conference will serve as a multiprofessional and multidisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners, activists and decision-makers to share views and experiences.

In June 2010 the Nobody's Children Foundation conducted training titled "Child - witness with special needs. Practice of friendly interviewing of child witnesses." Two-day training was addressed to interdisciplinary teams of judges, prosecutors and psychologists participating in interviewing minors and cooperating under a particular local court. The aim of the training was to enhance participants knowledge regarding child victims of crime and methods of interviewing minor witnesses, with particular reference to interviewing under art. 185 a and b of Code of Criminal Procedure (185a refers to minors below 15 - victims of sexual violence or family violence and 185 b refers to minors below 15 who witnessed sexual violence or other crime with a use of violence), assisting child and the family in the course of intervention, as well as establishing a connection with a child who suffered from traumatic experience.

On 15th-16th June 2010 25 experts from the Baltic Sea Region met to discuss situation of children in the asylum system and children in migration in relation to the risk trafficking. The seminar was organised by Save the Children Denmark in cooperation with the EGCC, Caritas Lithuania and Tartu Child Support Centre. The participants met to discuss information channels and structures established among various groups of professionals and how can a better information management contribute to more comprehensive and adequate protection systems for children at risk of trafficking.