to institutions brought improvement in the execution of this form of supervision of the operation of educational institutions because this procedure is normatively regulated for the first time. By passing the Rulebook on the Manner of Performance of Organized Transportation of Children54 the conditions for a safer transportation of children/students are created, the safety of children is improved and the Rulebook on the Protocol of Actions at Institution in Response to Violence, Abuse and Neglect55 improved the normative framework of protection of children against violence, through better defining of violence and its forms and more precise and adequate organization of interventional and other activities. In the reporting period, the Protector of Citizens issued reports to international organizations and bodies about the condition in the field of child rights: the report on the accomplishment of goals of sustainable development, on child, early and coercive marriages, culpability of the promotion and sale of sex dolls, on the position of children in street situation, on education of children, on the position of children on the move , on sexual exploitation of children and on good practices in the protection of the rights of children on the move. In the reporting period the Protector of Citizens selected in the public call new members of the Youth Advisory Panel among students of the sixth and seventh grade of primary school taking into account regional presence, presence of children from sensitive social groups and equal presence of boys and girls. Also, the Youth Advisory Panel is a permanent forum of children aged from 13 to 15 who participate in the work of the Protector of Children. Their main role is to communicate to the Protector of Citizens topics of importance for children and the young, to indicate to problems which children face, to present attitudes, ideas and proposals of children and initiate questions of importance for the improvement of the position of children and the young in Serbia and also to pass to their environments and schools what they learn at the Protector of Citizens on child rights and other topics of importance for children. With the Youth Advisory Panel the workshop was held to the topic of prevention and protection from violence and narcotic drugs and other harmful substances and the opinions of children were presented within the project “Global Child” for the development of the platform for monitoring of the child rights and indicators of application of the Convention on Rights on the Child , within which the consultations with children and the young were conducted. Two trainings of members of the Youth Advisory Panel were held and children were trained how to formulate and present specific ideas for solving of the problems they have. The training is followed by a long-term activity of the Protector of Citizens and Youth Advisory Panel “Participation in Action” which will last by the end of 2020. In interactive workshops with students and student parliaments of primary and high schools, the Protector of Citizens introduced students to their rights and international and domestic documents which presented obligations of the state in the field of child right, mechanisms of the protection of the rights of children and students and role of the institution of the republic Protector of Citizens in this system. The workshops on the participation of children were held with students and student parliaments, which initiated the activity “Participation in action”. With this activity, The Protector of Citizens aims at contributing to the reinforcement of the student participation and their greater inclusion in the processes of decision-making at schools and communities and through specific results of the children participation to raise the awareness on children and the young as an important resource of every community and the importance and role of participation of children and the young 54 55 “Official Gazette of RS“, no. 52/19 and 61/19. “Official Gazette of RS“, no. 46/19. - 38 -

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