Parliament, UNICEF join forces to promote child rights

Parliament and UNICEF have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, whereby parliament will play a greater role in enhancing children’s rights.

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Thursday, 20.11.2008.

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Parliament and UNICEF have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, whereby parliament will play a greater role in enhancing children’s rights. The agreement was signed yesterday by Judita Reichenberg, the head of the UNICEF mission to Serbia, and Speaker Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic. Parliament, UNICEF join forces to promote child rights Djukic-Dejanovic said that parliament’s priority had to be legislative activities regarding child rights, stating that of all human rights violations, those that “hurt” most were those affecting children. She said that a working group headed by Deputy Speaker and Chairman of the Poverty Reduction Committee Snezana Stojanovic-Plavsic had been formed to address these issues. Reichenberg said that there were a number of reasons why children’s rights were violated, including poverty. She said that the child was not respected as a legal entity and that negative disciplinary methods continued to be applied to children. According to Reichenberg, children’s rights were breached through discrimination of special needs children or on the basis of ethnicity. Stojanovic-Plavsic said that laws existed to uphold child rights, but that the problem was that they were poorly applied. Slavica Djukic Dejanovic (FoNet, archive)

Parliament, UNICEF join forces to promote child rights

Đukić-Dejanović said that parliament’s priority had to be legislative activities regarding child rights, stating that of all human rights violations, those that “hurt” most were those affecting children.

She said that a working group headed by Deputy Speaker and Chairman of the Poverty Reduction Committee Snežana Stojanović-Plavšić had been formed to address these issues.

Reichenberg said that there were a number of reasons why children’s rights were violated, including poverty.

She said that the child was not respected as a legal entity and that negative disciplinary methods continued to be applied to children.

According to Reichenberg, children’s rights were breached through discrimination of special needs children or on the basis of ethnicity.

Stojanović-Plavšić said that laws existed to uphold child rights, but that the problem was that they were poorly applied.

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