International Task Force for Child Survival

Task Force for Child Survival

Special Committee on Child Care [ Parliamentary Task Force on Child Care ]

Child Survival Unit

Report of the Federal Ad hoc Interdepartmental Working Group on Information Systems on Child Sex Offenders [ Report of the Federal Ad hoc Interdepartmental Working Group on Information Systems on Child Sex Offenders: screening of volunteers and employees in child-sensitive positions ]

Definition: Group foster care in which parenting responsibilities are largely taken over by some form of institution (such as residential nursery, orphanage, or children's home), or therapeutic care over a prolonged period in which the child is in a hospital, convalescent home or the like, without at least one parent living with the child.

Definition: A group of disorders characterized by the combination of persistently aggressive, dissocial or defiant behaviour with overt and marked symptoms of depression, anxiety or other emotional upsets. The criteria for both conduct disorders of childhood (F9l.-) and emotional disorders of childhood (F93.-) or an adult-type neurotic diagnosis (F40-F48) or a mood disorder (F30-F39) must be met.

Definition: Disorders characterized by a repetitive and persistent pattern of dissocial, aggressive, or defiant conduct. Such behaviour should amount to major violations of age-appropriate social expectations; it should therefore be more severe than ordinary childish mischief or adolescent rebelliousness and should imply an enduring pattern of behaviour (six months or longer). Features of conduct disorder can also be symptomatic of other psychiatric conditions, in which case the underlying diagnosis should be preferred. Examples of the behaviours on which the diagnosis is based include excessive levels of fighting or bullying, cruelty t ...[+++]o other people or animals, severe destructiveness to property, fire-setting, stealing, repeated lying, truancy from school and running away from home, unusually frequent and severe temper tantrums, and disobedience. Any one of these behaviours, if marked, is sufficient for the diagnosis, but isolated dissocial acts are not.

NGO Group on the Drafting of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

41. Expresses deep concern about the human rights violations, especially against vulnerable groups, in the MENA countries facing conflicts; considers children to be one of the most vulnerable groups and therefore reiterates the need to step up efforts to implement the revised implementation strategy for the EU Guidelines on Children and Armed Confl ...[+++]ict; encourages the EU to further deepen its cooperation with the UN Special Representative for Children affected by Armed Conflicts, supporting the associated action plans and monitoring and reporting mechanisms;

40. Expresses deep concern about the human rights violations, especially against vulnerable groups, in the MENA countries facing conflicts; considers children to be one of the most vulnerable groups and therefore reiterates the need to step up efforts to implement the revised implementation strategy for the EU Guidelines on Children and Armed Confl ...[+++]ict; encourages the EU to further deepen its cooperation with the UN Special Representative for Children affected by Armed Conflicts, supporting the associated action plans and monitoring and reporting mechanisms;

The registry's mandate is to research, collect and analyse information and statistical data on missing children; to provide law enforcement agencies with a source to quickly obtain accurate information on the status of any missing child; to monitor the CPIC missing persons file to request or provide follow-up information and action on missing children investigations; to assist law enforcement agencies and other interested groups and organizations in obtaining information on missing children; to facilitate the ...[+++]correlation of information by publishing documents such as national bulletins on missing children; to co-ordinate and exchange information on prevention programs within the Canadian police community and groups searching for missing children; to co-ordinate the travel/reunification program, which provides for the return of children abducted in Canada by a parent and using routes established by our sponsoring companies; to develop unique expertise in the area of missing children, such as developing psychological profiling of pedophiles and other socially deviant individuals who may be involved in the abduction and kidnapping of children; to promote its networking and collaborative efforts with all countries, but especially those belonging to the INTERPOL network and those that are signatories to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction; to contribute to international efforts to obtain support for a co-operative global response to the issues of missing, abused and exploited children; and to develop specialized training and provide educational resources for police.

8. Reiterates its condemnation of the appalling abuse of children through the recruitment of child soldiers, which is a war crime, and calls on all rebel groups to stop this practice, to release those whom they are holding and to make a declaration of principle that they will not recruit any children in the future; urges the Government of Sri Lanka to put into place legal measures to prevent and criminalise the practice; welcomes the appointment of Ambassador Alan Rock of Canada as a Special Advisor to Radhika Coomaraswamy, UN Speci ...[+++]al Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, to conduct a fact-finding mission to Sri Lanka on this issue;