Calls on the Member States to include domestic workers and carers in all national labour, healthcare, social care, insurance and anti-discrimination laws, recognising their contribution to the economy and society; urges the Commission accordingly to consider revising any EU directives which exclude domestic workers and carers from rights that other categories of workers enjoy.

Calls on the Member States to put in place and improve, in collaboration with social partners, information channels on the rights of domestic workers and carers and to ensure the highest information accessibility for all workers; recommends, to that end, to establish information points, following best practice in Member States, at regional and local level, helplines and websites providing assistance, information also in the form of campaigns on the rights of domestic workers and carers in each Member State in the national language and other appropriate languages; emphasises that civil society organisations such as organisations working on behalf of ...[+++]women and migrants should also be able to provide this information; points out that these tools must also be developed in a way that allows best practice, relevant advice and guidance to be given to possible employers, including families and agencies and that model employment contracts should be offered in order to ensure that employers carry out their responsibilities.

While laws to implement the UN Convention are already in place and have been partly implemented, detailed policies have yet to be drawn up, especially as regards children with disabilities, homeless and stay-at-home children, and the children of migrants left behind in their home villages.

I commend him for that. It is really interesting to note that in addition to Bill C-46, by the Minister of Justice, an act to amend the Criminal Code, the production of records on sexual offence proceedings, on today's Order Paper the Minister of Justice also has Bill C-27, an act to amend the Criminal Code, child prostitution, child sex tourism, criminal harassment and female genital mutilation, and Bill C-55, an act to amend the Criminal Code, high risk offenders, the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, the Criminal Records Act, the Prisons and Refor ...[+++]matories Act and the Department of the Solicitor General Act.

The proposed government reforms as set forth in Bill C-45 will restore public confidence, close gaps in the corrections system and respond directly to identified shortcomings in our present system to give further protection to our children (1240 ) The legislative changes introduced in Bill C-45 require amendments to the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, the Criminal Code of Canada, the Criminal Records Act, the Prisons and Reformatories A ...[+++]ct and the Transfer of Offenders Act.

300.000 BEF Germany: Purchase of furniture and educational material for a childcare for handicapped children in Bamberg. 100. 000 BEF Portugal: Purchase of material for a caring institute for handicapped children in Porto. 100. 000 BEF During 1996 the Association has also distributed an amount of 1.500.000 BEF to emergency funds for a multitude of small projects in different countries.