Justice and Consumers

Welcome to the first 2019 edition of the Newsletter on the rights of the child – new year, new outfit. We hope you will enjoy reading it.

The Annual Work Programmes (AWP) for 2019 for Union actions of the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) was adopted on 10 May 2019.

This call for proposals aims to promote the protection of children from all forms of violence as well as the rehabilitation of child victims considering that children exposed to trauma are entitled to receive child-sensitive support and treatment.

Call for proposals for action grants to support national and transnational projects to promote judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters.

A call for project proposals on security research across 16 different topics is open. €233.36 million is available in total for projects on fighting crime and terrorism, securing external borders, as well as improving digital security and data protection, among others.

Continuously open call - list of experts to help the Commission in the framework of the Rights, Equality and Citizenship programme (includes rights of the child and Daphne funding on violence against children)

This study commissioned by the European Commission maps existing research on Roma children in 13 EU Member States and 4 neighbouring countries (Albania, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Spain).

DG ECHO has announced a funding target of €164 million, which means that 10% of the humanitarian aid budget will be spent on education in emergencies.

This report examines the added value and the prerequisites for integrated working – as well as the crucial role played by ECEC services – to better serve all families, but especially vulnerable and disadvantaged children and families.

This policy memo provides an overview of the policy and practice of EU countries in ensuring access to quality education for children with special educational needs. It sets out the policy framework and main approaches taken by Member States, identifies key challenges for policy-makers and practitioners, and highlights examples of practices from across the EU.

This report describes the current state of the art in artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential impact for learning, teaching, and education.

This second 2019 report focuses on the fundamental rights situation of people arriving in Member States and EU candidate countries particularly affected by large migration movements. It covers some child-related topics, such as child protection issues. The first 2019 Migration bulletin report was published in February 2019.

The Council of Europe published on December 2018 the Handbook: “How to convey child-friendly information to children in migration: a handbook for frontline professionals”.

UNHCR announced the provisional release of the UNHCR Guidelines on Assessing and Determining the Best Interests of the Child (Best Interests Procedure (BIP) Guidelines.

This brief highlights five practices from within the EU, all of which illustrate promising responses to protecting children in migration.

A website for young people made by young people with experience of the child protection services in Ireland (Tusla). Young people thank to this project have a space where they can share their positives stories. They all come from different backgrounds but share the same experience of getting help from Tusla services.

On 15 April 2019 the French NGO released a campaign to prevent and raise awareness among the general public of the consequences of the educative violence, in particular for health professionals.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Department for Families and Children’s Rights of the Austrian Chancellery, in cooperation with the University of Music and Performing Arts - MDW and UNICEF Austria is organizing the International Composition Contest ‘Sounds of Childrens' Rights’.

The EU co-funded project UPRIGHTS Project, UPHOLDING LEGAL RIGHTS FOR UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN: Fostering Quality Legal Assistance in the Asylum Procedure was led by European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) in partnership with Forum réfugiés – Cosi.

This Erasmus+ “Forward-Looking project” was coordinated by the King Baudouin Foundation, with partners from Slovenia, Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands and Belgium.

This project is based on training modules that were developed as part of the EU-funded project FAIR (Fostering Access to Immigrant children’s Rights) project to help lawyers when representing migrant children and to increase their knowledge of the rights of the migrant children, to increase their understanding of the use of international redress mechanisms for violations of human rights of migrant children and give some advice on how to effectively communicate with child clients.