11/03/2013 Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Strasbourg, 11.03.2013 – What child protection strategies can be introduced at the national level to effectively fight sexual violence against children? This theme will be debated at the 12th meeting of the Network of Contact Parliamentarians to stop sexual violence against children on Thursday 14 March 2013 at the Bundestag in Berlin.
This meeting, organised by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), is to be attended by Norbert Lammert, Speaker of the German Bundestag, Hermann Kues, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Ministry for Family, the Elderly, Women and Youth, Markus Löning, German Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid and several international experts. They will discuss with the parliamentarians on national strategies and mechanisms to protect children and on improving close co-operation between the different stakeholders in combating sexual violence against children.
This meeting is also geared to alerting German decision-makers to the importance of ratifying and implementing the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (the Lanzarote Convention).
The network currently comprises 52 Contact Parliamentarians involved in exchanging good practices in order to stimulate legislative and political action to eradicate sexual violence against children in their various countries.
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The meeting, which is open to the press, will take place on Thursday 14 March from 9 am to 12.30 pm and from 2.30 to 6 pm at the Bundestag (Platz der Republik 1, Berlin, Reichstagsgebäude Süd, Scheidemannstraße).
PACE Contact: Maren Lambrecht, tel. +33 6 62 13 93 51, [email protected]