Plan International: Learn without fear

The report „Learn without fear" outlines Plan International's global campaign to end violence in schools. It focuses around corporal punishment, sexual violence and bullying in schools. The scale and severity of these forms of school violence, their causes and consequences and ways in which law and policy can be improved are presented. Authors of the report also included descriptions of already implemented intervention programmes tackling school violence.

Victims in Europe report

The report "Victims in Europe: implementation of the Framework Decision on the Standing of Victims in the Criminal Proceedings in the Member States of the European Union" includes information about the national reality of each of the 27 Member-States of EU, as well as a comparative analysis on this issue, pursuing a transnational perspective of the implementation. The Report was developed in the course of the activities of Project Victims in Europe, co-financed by the European Commission and promoted by APAV (Portuguese Association for Victim Support) on behalf of Victim Support Europe.You can download the publication here

Online games for children victims and witnesses of crime

British charity Victim Support has prepared online educational activities for victims of crime. They can be used individually or in the frame of school activities. Games aimed for young victims of crime in particular - "How are you feeling?" and "Word wrecking yard" - are accompanied by preventive activities focusing on personal safety and healthy relationships.

Child in the Web campaign in Moldova

Moldavian organization Copil Comunitate Familie is currently carrying Child in the Web campaign. Materials for the campaign - TV spot and poster - are based on the Polish version of the campaign created by the Nobody's Children Foundation.

Guide on interviewing children for Moldovan professionals

In December 2009 National Centre for Prevention of Child Abuse in Moldova issued a practical guide "Interviewing children victims and witnesses of abuse for legal purposes". It contains information about child abuse phenomenon and methodology of interviewing children. Main target group for this publication are criminal investigation officers, prosecutors, judges, teachers, psychologists and students. Publishing of the book was supported by ABA ROLI and USAID.

Child Participation conference in Macedonia

The First Children's Embassy in the World "Megjashi" organized National Children's Conference for Child Participation on the 16th March 2010. The conference was a part of the project „Building a Culture of Child Participation", financed by the European Union and UNICEF.
The project started in December 2008 and included preparation of four alternative reports about the situation regarding the rights of the child in the Republic of Macedonia, out of which three were prepared by the National Coalition for children's rights and one was prepared by the children themselves.

Belarus: international conference on prevention of child abuse

The conference titled "Development of a child protection system: national and international experience" will be held in Minsk on 22nd - 23rd April 2010. It will be the first conference in a series of annual conferences "Safe Belarus for children" that will be organized by NGO "Ponimanie". The aim of the conference is to improve the quality of assistance to children affected by violence, exploitation and trafficking. For this purpose, Belarusian specialists will be able to exchange professional experience with leading international experts.

“You should not be silent about the violence” campaign in Macedonia

The First Children's Embassy in the World Megjashi is conducting a campaign under the slogan "You should not be silent about the violence". The main goal is to inform the public about the violence that the children in Macedonia are facing. It is necessary to talk about the violence against children as it can cause serious and long lasting psychological harm. Fear, insecurity, low self-esteem, lack of information and lack of confidence in the institutions that are obliged to provide care and protection are the most common reasons why children are quiet about the violence and are not willing to reveal it and report it.

The magic book

Rosa Association from the Czech Republic is carrying a project aiming to support children - victims of domestic violence. Due to the violence that occurred or the parents' divorce a child often has to give statement in front of the judge or the police. Recently Rosa Association has issued "The magic book" - a tool created to help the children to adopt to this new and difficult situation and to enable them to express emotions.

www.stopnasili.cz

The website is a part of Czech national campaign against domestic and interpersonal violence. It's aim is to inform the society and its most vulnerable members about the problem and prevent it. The website is divided to four parts dedicated to different target groups: women, children, teenagers and other people who are witnesses of violence. In a friendly and easy way the children can learn from the website what is violence, how to react when faced by it and where to report it.