Child as a Witness

The Portuguese Association for Victims is organizing the "Victims in Europe" - 23rd Annual Conference of Victim Support Europe. The conference will be held on 25th and 26th June 2009 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Council of Europe has recently published "International justice for children", an analysis of child friendly national and international justice systems. The booklet examines monitoring mechanisms and current systems of admissibility, determining how easy children can gain access to them.

Recently Social Activities and Practices Institute issued Bulgarian translation of UN guidelines on justice in matters involving child victims and witness of crime. The booklet was prepared in the frame of "Coalition for child-friendly interviewing" Project.

 

Social Practices and Activities Institute has carried out the second stage of the Child as a Witness campaign, conducted under the slogan „Your Honour, I have the right not to be scared". First stage of the campaign was conducted in 2007 in all Childhood Without Abuse Project countries.