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The Strategy on the Rights of the Child and the European Child Guarantee were published by the European Union on 24 March 2021. These two comprehensive policy initiatives mark the Commission’s commitment to ‘better protect all children, to help them fulfill their rights and to place them right at the centre of EU policy making’ (European … Read more

This compendium includes the following Conventions, Recommendations and Resolutions: CONVENTIONS European Convention on the Supervision of Conditionally Sentenced or Conditionally Released Offenders (1964) – ETS No. 051 Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons (1983) – ETS No. 112 Additional Protocol to the European Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons (1997) – ETS No. … Read more

The Council of Europe Recommendation CM/Rec(2018)5 of the Committee of Ministers to member States concerning children with imprisoned parents is a landmark instrument regarding children with imprisoned parents. Coming as an international European response to Italy’s 2014 Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Justice, the National Ombudsman for Childhood and Adolescence, and COPE member … Read more

The Council of Europe Strategy for the Rights of the Child provides a plan from 2016-2021 to improve upon and develop child rights legislation. Following the European Convention on Human Rights and the principles of United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)—non-discrimination, best interests of the child, right to life, survival and … Read more

The 25th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was effectively a European  reiteration of and expansion on the original 1989 Convention and the agreements that followed. Whereas the original Convention—fundamental in defining children’s rights and one of the primary reasons for COPE’s foundation—does not mention the issue of children with … Read more

In 1973, the Council of Europe drew up its own Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, adopted by the Committee of Ministers (Resolution 73. 5). In 1987, the Council of Ministers deemed it necessary to reformulate the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners so as to take into account “significant social … Read more

The rights of the child as stipulated by the 2000 Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union: 1. Children shall have the right to such protection and care as is necessary for their well-being. They may express their views freely. Such views shall be taken into consideration on matters which concern them in accordance … Read more