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Council of Europe urges governments to ratify a Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual AbuseWhile always keeping children's best interest in the forefront, the Convention covers a number of different aspects of the problem, including assistance to child victims and their families; intervention programmes for child sex offenders; new criminal offences, like grooming (the manipulation of children by adults online for sexual purposes), child-friendly procedures for investigation and prosecution; adoption of victim support programmes and setting up of telephone and Internet helplines for children. To speed up the process of ratification and to raise awareness on the issue of child sexual abuse, the Council of Europe is organizing a series of regional conferences in member states. Source and the full text of the Convention Submitted by admin on Fri, 2008-05-16 14:20.
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