Thursday, 4 June 2015

National Assembly Speaker and Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child Maja Gojkovic on International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression

“The data on children victims of aggression in 2014 is worrying and the Committee on the Rights of the Child would like to point out that violence against children and physical violence cannot be tolerated and have to be subject to strictest penalty. The National Assembly and the Committee on the Rights of the Child are committed to creating the legislative requirements to improve children’s rights by implementing European standards and the tenets of the UN Convention on the rights of the Child. Creating equal opportunities for all children has to be everybody’s priority and the National Assembly and the Committee on the Rights of the Child will continue to muster all resources to build a society which has zero-tolerance for any kind of violence, especially violence against children.”