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stimulation of children‘s critical attitudes, restriction of access to content that may
adversely affect children‘s physical, emotional or psychological well-being, etc.
8.
The establishment of the media by children and with children, for purposes
including the elimination of violence, should be strongly encouraged and supported.
5.
Frameworks
5.1.
Legal framework
Compliance with UNCRC and other international standards
1.
All member states of the Council of Europe are parties to the UNCRC and are bound
to implement its provisions and to act in accordance with its principles. All reservations
incompatible with the UNCRC‘s object and purpose should be withdrawn.
2.
At global and regional levels numerous instruments have been adopted to safeguard
the rights of the child and to protect children from various forms of violence. t Accession to
these treaties should be strongly encouraged. Once ratified, they should be effectively
implemented and monitored, and national laws, bylaws, policies, regulations, plans and
programmes should be brought in line with them.
Prevention
The national legal framework should prioritise the prevention of violence and safeguard the
rights of the child by taking action, such as:
a.
registering children immediately after birth, subject to national regulations
and state obligations under the relevant international treaties in this field; u
b.
setting a minimum age of marriage that is not too low and that is applicable
to both boys and girls;
c.
setting a minimum age for sexual consent;
d.
prohibiting employment into positions involving child supervision of persons
convicted of violent, including sexual, offences against children;
e.
developing intervention programmes and measures to evaluate and prevent
the risk of violence against children from being committed;
f.
devising a system to vet fully those working with children, in any capacity,
that ensures an appropriate balance between the child‘s right to protection from violence
and the individual‘s right to a good name; v
g.
integrating in national laws an obligation to respect the right of the child to be
heard and to attribute due weight to children‘s views.
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The non-exhaustive list of relevant international treaties appears in Appendix 3. Appendix 4 presents
the list of recommendations adopted by Council of Europe bodies (Committee of Ministers,
Parliamentary Assembly and Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe).
Refer to Article 7, UNCRC.
Refer, for instance, to European Court of Human Rights, White v. Sweden, 2006, and Leander v.
Sweden, 1987.
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