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• strengthen the work for the protection of the rights of children in detention centres;
• promote work in the member states to develop measures that ensure that children
grow up in a family environment in their original families, in foster homes or via
national adoptions;
• promote the ratification and the implementation of the Convention on Adoption of
Children (revised).
Children with disabilities
• Develop a forum for the exchange of experience on alternatives to institutional care
and the dismantling of traditional institutions for children with disabilities, and for
increasing children‘s opportunities for community living and develop tools to allow
for children‘s involvement in the discussions;
• in line with the Committee of Ministers recommendation Rec(2006)5 on the Council
of Europe Action Plan to promote the rights and full participation of people with
disabilities in society (2006-2015), disability aspects should be mainstreamed
throughout the programme;
• help raise awareness of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities, encourage the member states to become party to and implement it, and
further develop their own initiatives and action plans.
Children in or at risk of poverty and social exclusion
• Promote the support of children living in families with scarce financial resources or
who are socially excluded, to prevent children being placed in care because of
financial vulnerability or leaving home and thereby risking becoming victims of
exploitation or living on the streets;
• develop measures to promote the rights of children belonging to national or ethnic
minorities, and to prevent and actively combat discrimination against them;
• promote work with local authorities to address the problem of children living on the
street;
• propose specific measures to promote the rights and address the needs of children
seeking asylum, refugee and migrant children and, more generally, all
unaccompanied children.
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