Raad van Europa stelt Europees onderzoek in naar misbruik van kinderen (op mijn voorstel) - Main contents

Vanmorgen vroeg ben ik weer aanwezig bij de Raad van Europa. Dat loopt de komende maanden nog gewoon door.

Eindelijk is er een doorbraak op mijn voorstel om onderzoek te doen en internationaal lessen te trekken uit het (langdurig) misbruik, dat heeft plaatsgevonden in instellingen van de staat en van kerken.

Dit betekent dat de commissie sociale zaken, familiezaken en gezondheid, waarvan ik ondervoorzitter ben, een onderzoek zal houden naar dit misbruik.

Tot nu toe zijn de meeste onderzoeken nationaal: denk aan de commissie-Deetman, ingsteld door de Rooms-Katholieke kerk in Nederland en de commissie, die minister Rouvoet instelt.

Dit is naar mijn weten de eerste keer dat op Europese schaal gekeken wordt naar dit probleem.

Morgen al beginnen de hoorzittingen (om 8.30 uur hier in Straatsburg). Onder de personen die gehoord zal worden, is een vertegenwoordiger van het vaticaan, professor Massimo Introvigne.

Het Vaticaan heeft de status van observer state is actief betrokken bij het mensenrechtenwerk. Daarom is het goed dat het ook nu antwoordt geeft op vragen van de commissie.

Daarna zal het werk doorgaan in de zomer.

Bron: Blog Pieter Omtzigt

Bron: Blog Pieter Omtzigt

Doc. 12238

4 May 2010

Child abuse in institutions: ensure full protection of the victims

Motion for a Resolution

presented by Mr Omtzigt and others

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  Many countries, including Council of Europe member and observer states, have recently been faced with accounts of physical and sexual child abuse occurring within residential facilities, boarding schools, churches and other institutional settings.

• 2. 

  The Parliamentary Assembly notes with regret that the needs of the victims of this abuse have often been disregarded - both in the past, when the offences occurred, and in the present, connected to the way they have been handled by the institutions concerned, the state and the media. The extent and duration of abuse situations is shocking and questions arise why they were not uncovered earlier.

• 3. 

  In this respect, the Assembly asks itself whether appropriate control mechanisms - both internal and external - were lacking and why the control mechanisms in place have not been sufficient to ensure full protection of all children.

• 4. 

  The Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (CETS No. 201) stipulates that each Party shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that any intentional abuse of a child made by a person being “in a recognised position of trust, authority or influence over the child” be criminalised. This Convention will enter into force on 1 July 2010.

• 5. 

  The Assembly recommends that member states ensure that any case of child abuse is subject to their criminal law system, and that perpetrators are prosecuted and all victims (and also whistleblowers) receive the same protection regardless of the institutional setting in which the crime was committed.

• 6. 

  The Assembly also urges member states to sign, ratify and implement the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse without further delay, if they have not done so already.

Signed ^1:

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  OMTZIGT Pieter, Netherlands, EPP/CD
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  BLUM Roland, France, EPP/CD
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  BOSWELL Tim, United Kingdom, EDG
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  CAPARIN Karmela, Croatia, EPP/CD
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  FRANKEN Hans, Netherlands, EPP/CD
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  GREENWAY John, United Kingdom, EDG
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  GROSS Andreas, Switzerland, SOC
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  HUSS Jean, Luxembourg, SOC
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  JONKER Corien W.A., Netherlands, EPP/CD
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  KARAMANLI Marietta, France, SOC
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  KELLY Peter, Ireland, ALDE
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  KOSACHEV Konstantin, Russian Federation, EDG
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  KOVÁCS Elvira, Serbia, EPP/CD
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  LECOQ Jean-Paul, France, UEL
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  LINDBLAD Göran, Sweden, EPP/CD
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  MARTY Dick, Switzerland, ALDE
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  MAURY PASQUIER Liliane, Switzerland, SOC
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  OHLSSON Carina, Sweden, SOC
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  PETRESKI Zoran, ''The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia'', EPP/CD
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  POURBAIX-LUNDIN Marietta de, Sweden, EPP/CD
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  RIBA FONT Maria Pilar, Andorra, SOC
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  ROSEIRA Maria de Belém, Portugal, SOC
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  RUPPRECHT Marlene, Germany, SOC
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  SAMKURASHVILI Rati, Georgia, EPP/CD
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  SANTINI Giacomo, Italy, EPP/CD
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  SARIKAS Fidias, Chypre, SOC
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  SARO Giuseppe, Italy, EPP/CD
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  SASI Kimmo, Finland, EPP/CD
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  SPAUTZ Marc, Luxembourg, EPP/CD
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  VRIES Klaas De, Netherlands, SOC
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  WILLE Paul, Belgium, ALDE
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  WILLIAMS Betty, United Kingdom, SOC

¹ EPP/CD: Group of the European People’s Party

SOC: Socialist Group

ALDE: Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

EDG: European Democratic Group

UEL: Group of the Unified European Left

NR: not registered in a group