A/HRC/19/64 enforcement of decisions on parental responsibility. As regards parental child abduction, the Commission will pay particular attention to the information provided by the European Parliament Mediator for International Parental Child Abductions. The registration and recognition of documents related to civil status are important for the determination of a child‘s rights. When children and their parents move within the EU and need to use such documents in another Member State they often encounter costly and lengthy requirements for their recognition (involving translations and proof of authenticity), which may make access to justice difficult. This is why the Commission has launched a public consultation on ways to facilitate the mutual recognition across the EU of the effects of civil status documents with a view to proposing EU measures in 2013 q. The right to a fair trial for children who are subject to criminal proceedings implies the protection of privacy, the right to be informed about the charges and the proceedings in a way which is adapted to the child‘s age and maturity, legal assistance and legal representation. This is especially important when the language of the proceedings is not the mother tongue of the child. In 2010, the EU adopted rules on interpretation and translation that ensure thatall persons, including children, receive information about their rights in the proceedings in a manner that they can understand r. The Commission will pursue its agenda aiming at strengthening the procedural rights of suspected or accused persons in criminal proceedings, including children. In 2011 the Commission will put forward a proposal containing rules to ensure access to a lawyer, and a proposal concerning the right for detainees to communicate with family members, trusted persons, employers and consular authorities. Special attention is due with regard to suspected or accused persons who cannot understand or follow the content or the meaning of the proceedings, owing, for example, to their age, mental or physical condition. In 2012 the Commission will table a legislative proposal on special safeguards for suspected or accused persons who are vulnerable. This measure will be of key importance to ensure child-friendly justice. Children sentenced to custody and placed in criminal detention structures are particularly at risk of violence and maltreatments. At international level there are several guiding principles on how to deal with children who are deprived of their liberty t. Detention of children should be a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time u. Children often participate as vulnerable witnesses or victims in criminal judicial proceedings. They may be exploited in criminal activities, such as trafficking of illicit drugs. Legal and practical arrangements should be put in place to avoid unnecessary multiple interrogations, and to reduce the negative experience of being involved in criminal proceedings. Child victims should be given the opportunity to play an active part in criminal proceedings so as to have their testimony taken into account. The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools, and especially videoq r s t u 96 Commission's Green Paper on Less Bureaucracy for Citizens: Promoting free movement of public documents and recognition of the effects of civil status records, COM (2010) 747 final, available at: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/policies/civil/docs/com_2010_747_en.pdf Directive 2010/64/EU of the European Parliament and the Council of 20 October 2010 on the right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings, OJ L 280, 26.10.2010, p. 1–7. Pinheiro, P. ‗World Report on Violence Against Children‘, United Nations, Geneva, 2006, p. 195– 199. Available at: http://www.unviolencestudy.org/. See for example United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty, General Assembly Resolution 45/113 of 14 December 1990, available at: http://www2.ohchr.org:80/english/law/res45_113.htm; Council of Europe Recommendation Rec(2006)2 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the European Prison Rules, 11 January 2006, available at: https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=955747. Art. 37 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.