Traduction de «Section des droits de l'enfant et des politiques » (Français → Anglais) :

Expresses the will to establish an intergroup within the European Parliament on children’s rights and well-being, based on the Child Rights Manifesto, as a permanent body responsible for promoting children’s rights across all European Parliament policies and activities in the context of both internal and external affairs; supports, therefore, the initiative of appointing ‘focal points’ for children’s rights within each parliamentary committee to ensur ...[+++]e the mainstreaming of children’s rights in every policy and legislative text adopted.

the rights of the child, as set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocols thereto, including the fight against child labour, child trafficking and child prostitution, the recruitment and use of child soldiers, and the protection of children from discrimination regardless of their race, colour, sex, language, religion or belief, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, property, disability, birth or other status.

119. Recalls the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the need to ensure the fullest protection of the rights enshrined therein and to prevent these rights from being eroded; welcomes the UNGA's adoption, on 19 December 2011, of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure, and calls on the Council and the Commission to accelerate efforts to achieve universal ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocols and to promote their effective implementation; calls, too, for decisive efforts to advance implementation of the EU Guidelines on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of the Child and the EU's Strategy to combat All Forms of Violence a ...[+++]gainst Children; calls on the VP/HR and the European External Action Service to include in EU Annual Reports on Human Rights a section on children's rights;

12. Believes that mainstreaming children's rights in EU policies is of paramount importance for the success of this European Strategy; calls on the Commission to include in its impact assessments on relevant policy issues specific provisions regarding children's rights; points out that the European Union and the Member States, when developing their legislation and policies, should take into account the diversity of children and t ...[+++]heir different needs, depending on their geographical location, age, gender, ethnicity, social and legal status, religion, culture, language, disability or family structure, and ensure that all children have full enjoyment of all their human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis; stresses the need for positive action regarding most vulnerable groups of children;

This approach is the one to be followed by the Commission in preparing its future Communication on the rights of children, within the context of its work towards a “Pact for the Child” with a view to advance the promotion of children’s rights in internal and external EU policy.

The mainstreaming of children's rights in European Union development policy has not been achieved.