The Orbis Hotel Group as the first in Poland implemented the Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism with the support of the Empowering Children Foundation.

While the police is often vilified for being lackadaisical and incompetent to take up gender-sensitive initiative, the Mumbai Police have spoken against child abuse while initiating a campaign on social media. Titled #LetKidsSpeakUp, the campaign addresses child abuse and the plight a kid goes through following a similar experience.

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On 1 March 2017 Human Rights Watch published the report about the situation of asylum seekers at the Belarus-Poland border. Since 2016, large numbers of asylum seekers, mostly from the Russian Republic of Chechnya, but also from Tajikistan and Georgia, have tried to apply for asylum in Poland at the border with Belarus. Most of them are families with children. Polish authorities routinely deny them the right to apply for asylum and instead summarily return them to Belarus.

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On 14 February 2017, the Lithuanian Parliament passed amendments to the Law on the Fundamentals of Protection of the Rights of the Child prohibiting all corporal punishment of children. It was the reaction on the January's case of the 4-year-old boy beaten to death by family members. Shocked Lithuanian society started demanding a legal ban on violence against children.

International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect  has announced 15th  Regional Conference to take place on 1st - 4th October 2017 in Hague, Netherlands. 

 

To submit the abstract click here

The call for abstracts closes on 31st January.

A powerful new film featuring UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham was released today to illustrate the brutal reality that physical and psychological abuse can mark children forever.

Dreadful creatures and people in black clothes represent children’s fears, anxiety and loss.

 

The campaign for adolescents is based on the materials of Empowering Children Foundation's campaign "Sexting? Think what you post".

The campaign was announced in September 2016 in Latvia by Centrs Dardedze. Prior to it, the organization did an elaborate work to find out what would be the most urgent aspect of the sexting topic that they would need to address to a wider society, that is not being addressed

What was your baby's first word? Mummy? Daddy? Or maybe even tablet? If the word ‘tablet' appears early in your child's vocabulary, then it's very probable that your baby is a ‘Homo tabletis'.