Links

1. Resources on violence against women, young women and the girls

- European Women’s Lobby Position paper ‘Elimination of all forms of Discrimination and Violence against the Girl Child’ (2007)

http://www.womenlobby.org/spip.php?article114&lang=en

- European Women’s Lobby Position Paper ‘Towards a Europe free from all forms of Male Violence against Women’ (2010)

http://www.womenlobby.org/spip.php?article934&lang=en

- European Womens Lobby. From Beijing to Brussels. An unfinished journey. The European women’s lobby Beijing +15 report on the activities of the European Union (2010)

http://www.womenlobby.org/spip.php?article124&lang=en

- UNICEF. From invisible to indivisible. Promoting and protecting the right of the girl child to be free from violence (2008)

http://www.unicef.org/malaysia/invisible_to_indivisable.pdf

- A Study on Violence Against Girls Report on the International Girl Child Conference 9–10 March 2009. The Hague, the Netherlands. UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre and the Government of the Netherlands.

http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/violence_girls_eng.pdf

2. Resources on children, girls and young women

- UNICEF. The State of the World’s Children reports

http://www.unicef.org/sowc/

- The United Nations Secretary-General’s Study on Violence against Children (2006)

http://www.unviolencestudy.org/

 3. Resources on children in residential care institutions

- Children in alternative care. National Surveys. Eurochild (2013)

http://www.eurochild.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Eurochild_Reports/Eurochild%20Publication%20-%20Children%20in%20Alternative%20Care%20-%202nd%20Edition%20January2010.pdf

- Manual for the Measurement of Indicators for Children in Formal Care. UNICEF (2009)

http://www.unicef.org/protection/Formal_Care20Guide20FINAL.pdf

- Save the children Policy Brief: Institutional care – the last resort (2009)

http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/resources/online-library/policy-brief-institutional-care-last-resort

4. Legal and political resources and documents

UN

- Convention on the Rights of the Child

http://www.unicef.org/crc/

- The United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. The Girl-child

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/platform/girl.htm

CoE

- Children in Care website

http://www.coe.int/t/dg3/children/childrenincare/childrenincare_EN.asp

- Rights of Children in Institutions. Report on the implementation of the Council of Europe Recommendation (2005) https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?Ref=Rec%282005%295&Language=lanEnglish&Ver=original&BackColorInternet=9999CC&BackColorIntranet=FFBB55&BackColorLogged=FFAC75

- Council of Europe Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2012-2015)

http://www.coe.int/t/dg3/children/StrategySept2012_en.pdf

UE

- An EU agenda for the rights of the child (2011)

http://ec.europa.eu/justice/fundamental-rights/rights-child/eu-agenda/index_en.htm

- EC website on the Rights of Child

http://ec.europa.eu/justice/fundamental-rights/rights-child/index_en.htm

- EU guidelines on the rights of the child (2010)

http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/human_rights/human_rights_in_third_countries/l33604_en.htm

- EP Resolution “Towards an EU strategy on the rights of the child” (2008)

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&reference=P6-TA-2008-0012&language=EN

Relevant projects

GATE: Guardians Against Child Trafficking and Exploitation

The project “GATE – Guardians Against Trafficking and Exploitation” aims to increase the capacity of the guardianship systems in 4 EU countries (Italy, Greece, Cyprus, the Netherlands) to protect separated children against trafficking and exploitation.

http://www.gate-eu.org/