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Rights of the child: Civil Liberties Committee sets out its strategy

Justice and home affairs - 19-12-2007 - 13:02

The proposed EU strategy on the rights of the child won the backing of the EP Civil Liberties Committee on 18 December, but also inspired many new proposals from MEPs, including tougher measures to combat paedophilia on the internet. The committee also advocated creating a single set of extraterritorial criminal laws to counter child sex tourism, and a system enabling the prosecution within Europe of suppliers of products manufactured with child labour.

The Civil Liberties Committee reiterated the European Parliament's opposition to all forms of violence against children, and called for a specific budget heading for their rights, with which to fund work required by the future strategy. Its own-initiative report was approved almost unanimously (just one abstention).

Combating paedophile pornography and violence on the internet

The committee's many proposals included devising technical measures to combat the dissemination of paedophile content via the internet. They would like to involve access suppliers, search engines and even banks, so as to block payment by would-be purchasers of illegal content.  

MEPs also wish to protect children by tightening up rules on the transmission of harmful content via the internet or multimedia messaging services and the sale of violent video games. They would like a uniform classification and labelling system to be created for such games, and for all audiovisual content.

Finally, they would like children to be better informed of their rights, via a dedicated internet site to be set up for this purpose.

Enforce ban on child labour

MEPs advocate a mechanism to enable the prosecution, in Europe, of suppliers of products that have been manufactured with child labour. The European Commission is urged to check wheter production lines comply with rules prohibiting child labour.

European kidnap alert system and prosecution of sex criminals in Europe

The committee recommends establishing a European kidnap alert system, and a telephone help line for children. It also advocates devising a European strategy, and creating a single EU-wide set of extraterritorial criminal laws, to counter child sex tourism.

Community instrument on adoption

Reiterating every child's right to a family, MEPs suggest establishing a Community instrument to facilitate adoption. Finally, they urge the EU to adhere to the UN and Council of Europe conventions on the rights of the child. 

The report, draft by Roberta Angelilli (UEN, IT) is scheduled for a plenary vote at the January session, in Strasbourg.

Procedure: own-initiative report -- Plenary vote: January I session, Strasbourg

17/12/2007
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
In the chair: : Jean-Marie Cavada (ALDE, FR)

Don't the rights of each child include the right to have his/her natural family, and origins protected and kept free from harm AND from those who wish to hunt and gather for personal gains and profit?

Hasn't REAL history proven itself true that adoptees and foster children around the world have been taken in and abused by pedophiles and deviants of all kinds, creating all sorts of new problems governments and officials can't manage anymore?

Seems adding more international adoption to the EU agenda will only add to these not-so-"pint-sized" problems, not solve them!

Hiya I'm getting some links together for you to look at. www.seasyp.gr is a good site for a bit of history with the Illegal adoptions.  Mariana who Im doing the site with is the representative in Greece for the Needham family. I got to know her after she heard my story. Here in the UK our closed family courts system makes people too afraid to speak out about what is happening to them. Greece baby trade is controlled mainly by the Gypsies and drug barons. The Gypsies being the most feared. The superstition and fear of the Gypsies goes back for ever. Greece are only now half heartedly admiting that corruption 'may' exsist. Together we decided to try and bring some attention to what is happening and how it is happening.
It has made me realise just how EU the UK is NOT. Trafficking and illegal adoption is a world wide issue and somehow we need to work as one. PPL has probably done more than most to bring nations together. I am though just begining to realise what a mega bucks corrupt world we live in.