First Children's Embassy in the World - Megjashi has recently conducted study on the visibility of the See it, Hear it, Say it campaign among the Macedonian society. The campaign was run all over the country between 7th November and 10th December 2008.

It is a beautiful moment for a family when a baby is born. But it is a difficult time, too. It brings a real upheaval in a daily routine, it involves a lot of stress related to the responsibility for the newborn human being, sleepless nights, the baby's crying, initial inability to recognize the child's needs. It all might put the parents' endurance and patience to a test.

The project has been carried out by Centre for Inclusive Education since 2007 and will last till the end of 2009.

 

The aim of the project is to better protect vulnerable children through recognising and implementing the international "Keeping Children Safe" standards for child protection by non-governmental and governmental structures in Bulgaria who work directly with children.

On 1st May 2009 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Marta Santos Pais as his Special Representative on violence against children at the level of Assistant Secretary-General.

In the beginning of 2009 a campaign Put Your Belt Away has been started by Center Dardedze together with partners - a campaign against corporal punishment of children. The aim of this campaign is to change the stereotype in Latvia that corporal punishment (belting, spanking, shaking etc.) is an appropriate and acceptable way of raising a child which doesn't affect the relationships among children and parents. The necessity had roused from the study made in 2005 which was made in co-operation with the study's of public opinion center SKDS.

Recently alternative report to the Polish government's report on the implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Right of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography has been issued.
The report has been prepared by experts from the Nobody's Children Foundation and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, in cooperation with other organizations. In contains comments and supplementary information on child trafficking, prostitution, and pornography, clarifying and complementing the government's report.

Next e-newsletter of the First Children's Embassy in the World - Megjashi is already available. In the newsletter you can read about World Prevention Day of Child Abuse celebrations, See it, Hear it, Say it campaign and other recent activities that were held in Macedonia.

Below you ca download newsletter in pdf.

The second issue of Childhood without Abuse Project Newsletter is already avaliable. It presents project activities carried out from December to February.

International conference on the topic "Children and the European Union: Legal, Political and Research Perspectives" will take place on 20th - 22nd April 2009, at University of Liverpool, UK. The event is organized in partnership with EURONET.

On its 50th session held on 12 - 30 January 2009 Committee on the Rights of the Child considered combined second and third periodic report of the Republic of Moldova on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.