Insufficient participation of children in the media is not problematized enough and the
participation of children in the media and public space is also the condition for more adequate
protection. By the event related to the World Child Day, organized by the Protector of Citizens
which was dedicated to the dialog of children and the media, under slogan “Become/Remain
Friends of Children”, members of the Youth Advisory Panel called the media to report more
on children as active members of the society, their accomplishments and success and their
contribution to communities where they live and schools they attend.
Members of the Children’s Rights Ombudsmn Network in South-Eastern Europe gathered in
October 2019 in Tirana (Albania) when it was indicated again to the difficult position of
children on the move. The network of ombudsmen called on competent authorities and
international organizations to intensify efforts so that to the greatest possible extent the
consequences of traumas would be reduced, and children be provided with a dignified life.
Apart from that members of the Network initiated additional activities with the aim of finding
the operation modality of the Network in self-sustainable and permanent manner.56
The representative of the Protector of Citizens, at the Annual Conference of the European
Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC), which was held in Belfast (Northern
Ireland) presented accomplishments of Serbia in the exercise of child rights in digital
environment and as a member of ENOC Working Group participated in the execution of the
document on the prohibition of deprivation of children of freedom due to immigration
status.57
The representative of the Protector of Citizens is the member of the National Coalition for
Suppression of Child Marriages, which was established with the aim of initiating of the work
on the establishment and development of institutional mechanisms for the prevention of child
marriages and their suppression, considering that the problem of child marriages requires a
high level of engagement of all institutions and systemic approach which Serbia is missing at
this point.
PROPOSALS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF CHILD'S POSITION IN RELATION
TO ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITIES
Even though pursuant to Article 17 Paragraph 3 of the Law on the Protector of Citizens, the Protector
of Citizens is not authorized to oversee the work of the National Assembly and the Government, the
Protector of Citizens believes that it would be useful that the stated bodies review his proposals.
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Government should plan and take measures of economic policy without endangering of
child rights and in the manner which will not reduce accomplished standards in the
exercise of child rights and provide the number of health care employees, professional
employees at the institutions of social protection and professional associates at the
educational institutions which correspond to the child needs; to adopt a new National
Action Plan for children and National Strategy for the prevention and protection of
children against violence, in accordance with recommendations of the Protector of
Citizens and UN Committee on the Rights of the Child; to provide the number of health
care employees, professional employees at the institutions of social protection and
professional employees at educational institutions which correspond the needs of
children; to propose amendments to the law which would prescribe and regulate the right
of the child to participation in educational institutions and obligations of institutions and
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