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• trafficking of children;
• violence in the name of honour and traditions affecting children.
• develop specific action to protect particularly vulnerable children (see ―Special
focus on particularly vulnerable children‖).
Participation of children and their influence in society
The Council of Europe should:
• promote children‘s access to information concerning their rights and human rights
education for children;
• reinforce co-operation between children‘s rights programme and the youth sector,
building upon the youth sector's expertise in the field of participation and making
use of the platform offered by the European Youth Forum;
• promote awareness raising on the right of the child to participate in decision-making
processes and facilitate the exchange of experience and good practices with regard
to:
• various forms and methods of achieving child participation and of promoting
dialogue between decision makers at all levels on the one hand, and children
and young people on the other;
• methods for children‘s participation in individual decisions that concern
them, such as in courts, the social services, schools and health and medical
care;
• positive parenting and family policies, acknowledging that child participation
is crucial, including in the home setting;
• examine the possibility to update existing recommendations of the Committee of
Ministers on children‘s participation and influence in society,c or envisage the
possibility of a new recommendation on this subject;
• launch a pilot project with volunteer countries to analyse participation policies and
extract good practice and guidance for all those wishing to promote participation at
local and national levels.
Special focus on particularly vulnerable children
When developing, implementing and evaluating activities, due consideration should be
given to the rights and needs of particularly vulnerable children, notably in the context of
access to education, social, health and legal services, and participation. The following
children will receive special attention:
Children without parental care
• Promote the implementation of the Committee of Ministers Rec(2005) on the rights
of children living in residential institutions and contribute to the exchange of
experience within the field of the rights of children-in-care;
• in the context of migration, address the needs of children left in the countries of
origin when their parents migrate;
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Recommendations (97) 3 and (98) 8.
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