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Recommended measures (7)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should ensure that all forms of separation of children from their parents are always in the best interests of the child, including …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesTraining and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should review the procedures for removing children in emergency cases and provide for a more sensitive approach, ensure that no form of …
• Type of action: Statistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should conduct research on the reasons behind the significant disparities among counties regarding children subjected to alternative care measures and emergency placements.
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should ensure that siblings are not separated when placed in alternative care.
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should ensure periodic review of the placement of children in foster care and institutions, and monitor the quality of care therein, including …
• Type of action: Training and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should take the measures necessary, including adequate training of personnel, to ensure that children belonging to an indigenous or national minority group …
• Type of action: Awareness-raising and disseminationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should improve communication and information exchange between child welfare services and families, in particular migrant families.

Recommended measures (2)

• Type of action: Awareness-raising and disseminationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should develop awareness-raising campaigns and programmes targeted at religious communities that conduct child marriages on the harmful effects of child marriage on …
• Type of action: Awareness-raising and disseminationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
  The State party should conduct awareness-raising campaigns targeted at children on how to seek help if they fear being sent abroad to be subjected to …

Recommended measures (7)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Health and Care ServicesMinistry of Education and ResearchMinistry of Culture
  The State party should adopt a specific plan of action to combat violence against women and girls that focuses on the elimination of rape and …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should increase the allocation of human, technical and financial resources, including to the National Criminal Investigation Service (Kripos), to improve the protection …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should amend section 291 of the Penal Code to ensure that the lack of free consent is at the centre of the …
• Type of action: Awareness-raising and disseminationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should undertake awareness-raising campaigns to encourage reporting, with specific components targeted at boy victims, and ensure accessible, confidential, child-friendly and effective reporting …
• Type of action: Statistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Health and Care ServicesMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should undertake research and develop specific measures to prevent sexual abuse and exploitation of children by other children and ensure that perpetrators …
• Type of action: Statistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should ensure that data collected on sexual abuse and exploitation of children are disaggregated by age, sex, disability, geographical location, ethnic and …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should accelerate its efforts to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse.

Recommended measures (4)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Health and Care ServicesMinistry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should increase its efforts to promote positive, non-violent and participatory forms of child-rearing and discipline, with the cooperation of the media and …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesTraining and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should ensure that children have access to a helpline available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, as well as to …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesTeaching and curriculumResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should in the light of information before the Committee indicating that students have on occasion been subjected to violence from adults in …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Health and Care ServicesMinistry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Education and Research
  The State party should ensure that child victims of violence and abuse are provided with adequate support at the municipal level and strengthen the capacities …

Recommended measures (5)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Labour and Social Affairs
  The State party should increase its efforts to strengthen compliance in practice with the child’s right to be heard, in particular with regard to children …
• Type of action: Training and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Labour and Social AffairsMinistry of Health and Care ServicesMinistry of Education and ResearchMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should ensure that relevant professionals are regularly trained on implementing an age-appropriate, meaningful and empowered participation of children in decisions affecting their …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should strengthen the implementation of the child’s right to be heard in asylum and expulsion procedures affecting children, particularly with respect to …
• Type of action: Awareness-raising and disseminationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should ensure that children are informed about the possibility of participating in mediation processes in the context of their parents’ separation.
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Local Government and ModernisationMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should increase its efforts to ensure the meaningful participation of children in youth councils or other forums accessible to all children in …

Recommended measures (2)

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should establish clear criteria regarding the best interests of the child for all authorities that take decisions affecting children.
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should ensure that this right is appropriately integrated and consistently interpreted and applied in all legislative, administrative and judicial proceedings and decisions, …

Recommended measures (3)

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should ensure, in the case of divorce, that the concept of joint marital property extends to intangible property, including pension and insurance …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should adopt the legal measures necessary to enhance the economic protection guaranteed to all women living in de facto relationships, in the …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should ensure that gender-based violence against women in the domestic sphere is taken into account in child custody or visitation decisions, especially …

Recommended measures (3)

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPolicies, strategies, and action plansPractices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture
  The State party should implement effective legal, policy and practical measures to address multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination.
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social AffairsMinistry of Education and Research
  The State party should take specific measures to promote full-time employment opportunities in the public and private sectors for women with disabilities, including by improving …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture
  The State party should mainstream a gender perspective into disability studies and include the rights of women and girls with disabilities in gender equality and …

Recommended measures (2)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture
  The State party should extend the scope of the white paper on equal terms to all persons, including women, with disabilities.
• Type of action: Statistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should evaluate the issue of investigations and prosecutions of cases involving sexual violence against women with cognitive and psychosocial disabilities.

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Awareness-raising and dissemination
  The Committee recommends that the State party consider expanding the Local Election Day project with a view to increasing the number of women from ethnic …