Translation of "Affections déformantes chez les enfants " (French → English) :

whereas humanitarian crises continue to have a devastating impact on children, and whereas in 2014 the lives of more than 59 million children were directly affected by crises, mainly conflict-related; whereas there are an estimated 250 000 child soldiers in the world today, 40 % of whom are girls.

Is concerned that the proportion of pre-school enrolment among children in the 0-5 age group is still very low and that there is a lack of progress in the provision of childcare and pre-school education facilities; urges the Turkish government to allocate sufficient resources for the extension of affordable childcare services for this age-group; further calls on it to amend its regulation on childcare centres, which obliges workplaces employing more than 150 women to provide free-of-charge childcare, since this provision reflects a discriminatory approach implying that child-rearing is the sole responsibility of women and negatively influences companies' decisions as regard ...[+++]s hiring more women;

Communication on the strategy on the rights of the child (2010 – 2014), on the basis of an evaluation of the impact of the EU instruments, both internal and external, affecting children's right | Commission | 2010 |

Notes that the Portuguese Presidency followed the German initiatives under the guidelines and instructed all EU diplomatic missions in priority countries to regard the country-specific strategies adopted by COHOM on 15 June 2007 as standing instructions to be incorporated in the work of the Heads of Mission in the area of children in armed conflicts; welcomes the fact that the Presidency-in-office has also forwarded to local Presidencies the reports received by relevant NGOs regarding specific countries; welcomes the Slovenian Presidency's initiative in commissioning a study on the impact of EU measures on children affected by armed conflict; ...[+++] stresses in this connection the limited impact the guidelines have on children and armed conflicts, owing in particular to the fact that the majority of the Commission delegations and Member State embassies were not informed that their host country was considered a priority country for the application of these guidelines;

Welcomes the increased attention paid to children's rights in mechanisms for accountability for crimes under international law (recognising in this regard the efforts made by the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission to that end in 2007) as an important means by which to give effect to the right of children to participate in decisions that affect their lives; emphasises, however, that the best interests of the child must guide any such involvement, including through the implementation of age-appropriate policies and procedures ...[+++] and the promotion of the rehabilitation and reintegration of child victims;

- Allocation of the necessary resources in primary health care, to advice and treatment regarding hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption, to provide training for health care professionals and to prioritise alcohol prevention at workplaces, counselling for children in families with alcohol problems and education and awareness-raising actions to protect the unborn child (aims 2-9)