Violence among children and young people is frequent and the state must take all necessary measures to suppress this phenomenon, it was announced after the constitutive session of the Council for the Rights of the Child.
The Prime Minister and President of the Council for the Rights of the Child, Dritan Abazović, appealed to the Ministries of Internal Affairs, Education, the Police Directorate and all other competent institutions to strengthen supervision in order to show the importance of solving this problem, considering that the protection of children's rights is one of the most important topics of the entire society.
"A conclusion was adopted that calls on all members of the Council and participants in the discussion on this topic to submit to the Secretariat of the Council for Children's Rights within two weeks proposals for models that would lead to the final goal - the suppression of violence among children and youth and violence against children in general." , the announcement states.
In today's session of the Council, in addition to members consisting of representatives of the executive branch, the Protector of Human Rights and Freedoms, a representative of the Secretariat for Legislation, the director of the Directorate of Statistics, the director of the Institute for Social and Child Protection, as well as representatives of the non-governmental sector, due to the importance of the topic that was on the agenda of the session , the Acting Supreme State Prosecutor Tatjana Begović, representatives of UNICEF and representatives of the Police Administration were also present.
At the session, the two-year work program of the Council for the Rights of the Child was adopted, which was prepared by the Secretariat of the Council in cooperation with UNICEF and in consultation with all interested parties dealing with the protection of children's rights, based on legal requirements arising from national strategic documents, as well as obligation based on ratified regional and international agreements.
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