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We want to remind all the European Parliaments members as well as Macedonian Parliament members for their extremely important part in improving the children’s rights

We want to remind all the European Parliaments members as well as Macedonian Parliament members for their extremely important part in improving the children’s rights,how to initiate the maximum care for maintaing the best children’s interests in all the acts appropriated in the Parliaments which are suggestions of groupe of members,groupe of ministries or, simply as result of civil initiative.

This year is 12 anniversary of bringing the OUN’s Convention for children’s rights.This Convention is ratificated on global rank.We honestly believe that it’s time European institutions as well as Macedonian institutions to integrate the norm for best children’s interests in the whole work.

But what’s happening now?We have more and more cases of pedophilia,incest,physical and mental violence over the children, abusing the children’s labour, and children who don’t have a chance to educate their selve.

The problem of dealing with pedophilia and children’s sexual harastment and giving protection to the victims and witnesses of sexual harassment is a problem who need a serious approaching and we also need very seriously to approach and to mobilize ourselves to it’s prevention and repression.

The fact that every week in our registration there are 2 to 3 reports for cases of pedophilia,sexual harassment and incest over the children is too worring.The adults,the parents and the state institutions aren’t  always functional in their care and protestion.In Republic of Macedonia the children with intellectual handicap, poor children and children from the rural places are often exposed on sexual harastment and pedophilia.That’s because of the less care and not enough insight in the disfunctual families ,families in risk and also the handicap category (with small,middle and combined intellectual problems), who mentally are stopping in their physical and mental developing much time comparing with normal children in the same age.This vulnerable groupe of children is easy target for the pedophiles.

Recommendations for more efficient and effective treatment for children victims of sexual harastment:

·        The Court processes should be short and quick;

·        The Court punishment mostly are toiuching the Law’s minimum and always are not proportional with the height of the crime;For this kind of crime the main part have Parliaments on giving more strict, long and heavy punishment law codes.

·        There’s no proper care for children victims of sexual harassment and pedophilia.If the child victim is returning to his family after the crime ,where he beared the previous violence ,for sure he will have additional pressure from his close relatives about the vilence – raping and to be forced to be silent,not to tell the everybody for it.That’s why we should form State institutons for accepting of this children victims of sexual harassment,at least in the bigger towns,on inherency of Ministry of labour and social politics of the Republic of Macedonia,for taking care of the victims of family violence and sexual harastment;

·        The centers for social works should get more teams for quick discovering and early detection on families in risk where the child who is potencial victim of abusing,will be protected.In this team should take part a deffectologist (for the peoples with some handicap) who will be working on discovering,intervention,accepting and rehabilitation treatment to this angels.

·        We are giving an apel to the institutions of the System to be really careful to the children victims of sexual harastment.If the treatment is not proper or unprofessionaly done or for example if the child is facing again with the raper – this is  repeating of the violence ,but in this case the cild is suffering not only the experienced sexual violence but also the additional mental violence from the institution,that is the say from some professional people included in the case.We suggest only one trial testimony in special screen rooms with presentsy of Court judge,social worker,educational worker,sociologist and polece investigator in dressed in civil clothing.The video argumentation to the judge will give the opportunity not to confront the victim with the raper even if the deffence is insisting.

·        The centers for social work should be open 24 hours with orphanage for children victims of every kind of violence;

·        To bring extra rates for protection of the children from pedophiles,escaped or released from jail using the world’s experiences (strict supervision from the police and Centers for social work for pedophiles back from the jail)

·        In schools should be making a prevention programmes who’s going to have affection on protection  to the children from pedophilia;

·        To be respected the identity and the integrity of the children victims or witnesses of any kind of violence and to be protected from additional suffering thru from telling information of personal character in the mediums:name,parents name,address,place of living,personal informations about the case,one or more specifications of his/her physical,mental,economical,cultural or social identity,etnic nationality etc.

·        We are encouraging the children and the parents not to keep the violence in their heart and to report it in the nearest police station or to call on SOS phone for children and teenagers 0800 1 2222 in the First World Children’s Embassy Megjashi.

·        As a matter of fact we are asking from the Parliamnet of the Republic of Macedonia to ratified,The Convention of the European Council for protection the children from sexual exploitation and sexual harastment,that’s how the Parliament will help to developing the rights and the protection for the children in Macedonia.

The problem with the illiteration and absent the children from compulsory primary education: 

Those children who are “the kids of the street”they are absent from education.In Macedonia there are 18.500 children who doesn’t go to the compulsory education in primary school which is guaranteed with the Constitution and the Convention for children’s rights.Over 2000 children are whole day on the streets,crossroads extending their little hands are begging because they have norm which they have to earn it.That.s hurt the basic children’s rights.The right for good healthy and dissent life,right for education,right for medical care and warm place called home.Most of the children on the streets are victims of prostitution,conducting for having profit,children’s trade,distribution and using drugs,sexual harastment.We had a few cases when parents sexually make the children to go with other adults for having profit.

The daily centres are with temporal character.They mean a lot for the children.They are learning there the basic hygienic habits,there they are taking shower,have nice warm protion of food,they get educated, they are evidented in the Register for the born children,took a vaccine and free medical care.They surely get educated there and also encouraging themselves to join in the primary school.But,after leaving the Daily centre,after 4:00 p.m o’clock they are again on the streets,alone,they just are squeezed of the existentional needs and requests of their parents.They have to work,to collect secondary raw matrials,to sell unimportant things or to beg.The daily centres are not solution for the “backstreet kids” problem.
 
The right for all children including the “backstreet kids” to study and to learn is natural right for every human being.This is especially for children and especially for them the educaton have vital importancy,not only for the present but also for their future.If the Country will coduct the additional education and after all the quality education for every child,Macedonia could break the vicing circle of illiterate and abusement.
 
Recommendations for getting over the situation with absent the children from the education:

1.      TO INCREASE THE BUDGET FOR EDUCATION ESPECIALLY FOR THE CHILDREN TO JOIN IN THE EDUCATION

2.      TO OPEN NEW CLASSES FOR THIS CHILDREN AND TO HIRE MORE TEACHERS

3.      TO PROVIDE NICE AND WARM PORTION OF FOOD IN THE SCHOOLS FOR ALL CHILDREN WHO ARE INCLUDED IN THE EDUCATION

4.      THE CENTRES FOR SOCIAL HELP TO ASK FROM PARENTS USERS OF THIS KIND OF HELP CONFIRMATION FROM THE SCHOOLS THAT THEIR CHILDREN ARE IN REGULAR TEACHING PROGRAMME

5.      TO HIRE SOCIAL WORKER IN EVERY SCHOOL WHO’S GOINT TO HELP FOR LARGER NUMBER OF CHILDREN INCLUDED IN EDUCATION

6.      THE MEYERS SHOULD GIVE PRIORITIES TO QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH EDUCATION E RESPECTING THE CHILDREN RIGHT IN EVERY LOCAL COMMUNITY