International Cooperation for Preventing and Responding to Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents: the Role of International Actors and Donors

23-24 October 2008

As a contribution to the World Congress III Against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents organized by the Government of Brazil from 25-28 November in Rio de Janeiro, the Government of Italy and the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre are organizing a thematic Consultation on Theme 5 of the Congress "International Cooperation for Preventing and Responding to Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents: the Role of International Actors and Donors". The international expert meeting will take place in Florence, on 23 and 24 October, 2008.

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Law Reform and Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child Reviews the legislation concerning the rights of children adopted by 52 States
Expert meeting on children and transitional justice A two-day consultation sharing knowledge, experiences, good practices and lessons learned

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Carmen Silvia de Oliveira, Coordinator of the Central Organizing Committee, Government of Brazil

The Coordinator of the Central Organizing Committee of the Government of Brazil illustrated the preparatory process to the World Congress III

23 April 2008

The Coordinator of the Central Organizing Committee of the Government of Brazil illustrated on the last day of the meeting the preparatory process to the World Congress III.
During the session on World Congress III Against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolecents, she spoke about the participation of adolescents at the World Congress. "They are not representing themselves, they are not representing an entity. They are there to represent the voices of all adolescents" she said.

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Expert consultation in preparation of the World Congress III

Preparatory Meeting for the World Congress III Against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents

21-23 April 2008

From the 21st to the 23rd of April, the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre hosted a series of thematic expert consultations on child trafficking and child sex tourism, in preparation for the World Congress III against the Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents to be held in Brazil in November 2008. The consultations were organized in close cooperation with UNICEF’s Child Protection section in New York, and with the support of UNICEF TACRO and Brazil.
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