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In light of the upcoming launch of the Arabic version of the UN Secretary-General's Study on Violence Against Children, the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM) is calling on NGOs to submit papers on a number of issues that will be discussed during meeting.

The launch will take place in Cairo, Egypt, from 25 to 27 June, and will be preceded by a children’s preparatory event. Papers will be circulated during the event and should focus on the following:

• Success stories on legal amendments, monitoring mechanisms and restorative justices
• Best Practice and advocacy to end violence against children
• Capacity building of juvenile police on child abuse and neglect
• Rights of children in prison with their mothers
• Violence against children in detention centres
• Ending corporal punishment - violence against children in the home
• Challenges of making children's voices heard by politicians and parliamentarians
• Budgeting for children
•  Child domestic work
• Research on areas of conversion and agreement between Islamic sharia and the CRC
• Discuss how the Study can be used to create a new focus on violence against children at national level, increase public and political awareness and the will to work effectively to challenge and end it.
• Consider all possible strategies for mobilising civil society (including for example film festivals and the arts).
• Plan strategies to identify and highlight the experiences of hard-to-reach and marginalised groups of children who may be particular victims of violence, and contribute this knowledge to consultations or directly to the Study
• How to coordinate processes related to the Study with other national processes- for example, reporting under the Convention on the Rights of the Child and developing a Plan of Action following the United Nations Special Session on Children.
• A fuller understanding of the extent of particular types of violence against children, which can realistically only be achieved through an analysis of credible data, is particularly crucial to enable policy makers to react with appropriate measures.

Deadline for submissions: 18 June 2007

Please send your contributions to Noha El Laban on: nohaellabban@yahoo.com

Further information:

• Launch of the Study

Organisation Contact Details:

National Council for Childhood and Motherhood
Child Right Programme Coordinator
International Cooperation Unit
The National Council for Childhood& Motherhood (NCCM)
Cairo -Egypt
Tel: +20 2 5240277
Fax: +20 2 5240701

Last updated 14/06/2007 06:02:47