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What is the Save the Children Europe Group?

Save the Children Europe Group is a network of Save the Children organisations working in eight European Union (EU) states and four non-EU states. Like other Save the Children organisations, its members work with and for children in their own countries and abroad.

The principle of children's rights lies at the heart of the Save the Children Europe Group. Save the Children Europe Groups’s aim is to help further children's rights in Europe and elsewhere by promoting children's interests in European policy making , funding and programmes.

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The Brussels Office

Save the Children Europe Group has an advocacy office in Brussels and works towards its goals by conducting research and lobbying the EU institutions.

Save the Children Europe Group also works with other nongovernmental organisations (NGO networks) in the fields of social policy, development, migration/asylum, and poverty.

 

 

What's new in Brussels?

Save the children Conference on Child Abuse Images, Brussels, 6th March 2008

The German region of Saxony-Anhalt and Save the Children, supported by the Slovenian Presidency organised a conference on child abuse images on 6th March 2008.

The conference was entitled "Protecting Children By Disrupting the Production, Distribution and Collection of Child abuse Images - The Role of Online Payment Systems and the Need for Harmonization of Legislation". The event featured speakers from various institutions such as the European Commission, Europol, Interpol, The Council of Europe, PayPal, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Saxony-Anhalt.

Save the Children welcomes the committment by varied actors, to protect children and stop the distribution of child abuse images. Updates on this topic will be provided in our monthly newsletters. If you wish to know more, please contact marta.ballesteros@savethechildren.be, Tel: +32 2 250 09 00