From 19 to 23 of October, Nice hosted Bice partner organizations from CIS for a study visit on the "administrative, medical and judicial care of children in danger". These visits were organized in the framework of the project "Prevention of sexual abuse and assistance to sexually children victims of violence and sexual abuse in CIS and Latvia" which began in April 2007.
"This week of visits was the opportunity to monitor our own practices and to compare models," said Oleg Zykov from Russia.
In order to spread effective and innovative practices concerning prevention of sexual abuse and exploitation, Bice coordinates this project in close cooperation with 8 organizations from different areas of the Community of Independent States and Latvia.
Besides ALC, Bice relied on the following organizations:
• NAN (« No to Alcohol and Narcotics »)- Moscow, Russia
• Society "Parents for Jurmala"- Jurmala, Latvia
• CRIC Moldova - Child Rights Information Center - Chisinau, Moldova
• Podrugi - Almaty, Kazakhstan
• Civic Initiative -Zlataust, Russia
These good practices will be implemented and spread in 2009/2010 through miniprojects in Siberia, Moscow, in the region of Almaty-Kazakhstan and, and in Chisinau- Moldova.
The week in Nice
The study visit organized by the Regional Delegation for Europe & CIS and
ALC aimed to present good practices concerning sexually abused children. During one week the participants focused on:
• The detection and alerting of cases of children in danger
• The statement and hearing of the child
• A child-friendly legal system
• The measures to protect ill-treated children.
The partners from Russia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Estonia and Latvia had the opportunity to meet and exchange experiences with several professionals from medical, judicial, associative and institutional fields such as Hervé Hass (Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Nice Hospital), Côme Jaqmin (juvenile judge at the Nice Court), Martine Brousse (Director of La voix de l'enfant), Martine Nisse (Director of the Centre Buttes-Chaumont), Michel Redon (judge at the Albi Court), Pascal Podair (BPDJ - Juvenile delinquency prevention Squad), Christophe Tukov (examining magistrate at the Nice Court), Françoise Aufan (Head of juvenile welfare authority of Alpes Maritimes).