Child Abuse and Neglect

On 17 October, International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Eurochild urges EU member states to keep fighting child poverty also beyond the "light year"

 

 

The UNICEF's study "Breaking the Cycle of Exclusion: Roma Children in South East Europe", presented on the 16th of May 2007 in Belgrade, focuses on the 1.7 million Roma children living in South East Europe. According to the study, Roma children suffer from poverty, discrimination and a lack of prospects for their future in eight states of South East Europe: Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia. (...)

Polish police arrested 49 people, including teachers and clergy, and seized computers and thousands of CDs and DVDs containing child pornography on the 21^st of August. Police searched more than 50 homes, offices and Internet cafes Monday morning, taking possession of 92 computers and about 3,000 discs containing child pornography.
«Among those arrested were teachers, a karate teacher, a board member of a major bank and members of the clergy» said the spokesman of the national police.

In Latvia, child prostitution has not yet been sufficiently realized and studied, sometimes existence of this problem is even denied (nobody has informed the law enforcement institution about such facts).