Assembly debate on 21 June 2016
(22nd Sitting) (see Doc. 14080,
report of the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable
Development, rapporteur: Mr Valeriu Ghiletchi). Text adopted by the Assembly on
21 June 2016 (22nd Sitting).
1 Referring to its Resolution 2119 (2016) on
fighting the over-sexualisation of children, the Parliamentary Assembly
calls on the Committee of Ministers to ensure that the issue is
addressed within the programme “Building a Europe for and with Children”
and in particular the new Council of Europe Strategy for the Rights
of the Child (2016-2021), as well as within the work programmes
of other relevant Council of Europe bodies.
2 More specifically, the Assembly invites the Committee of Ministers
to:
2.1 transmit the said resolution
to the governments of member States;
2.2 invite the new Ad hoc Committee for the Rights of the
Child (CAHENF) to take into account the recommendations presented
in the said resolution, and to devise a specific activity aimed
at fighting the over-sexualisation of children, as well as to support
targeted activities carried out by other bodies of the Council of
Europe in a transversal manner;
2.3 as regards the activities of other Council of Europe bodies:
2.3.1 ask the Gender Equality Commission (GEC) to draw up new
standards specifically aimed at fighting the over-sexualisation
of children;
2.3.2 ask the Steering Committee on Media and Information Society
(CDMSI) to put a stronger emphasis on the protection of children,
in the context of its activities on human rights for Internet users.