The intent of this second session is twofold. The first purpose is to start an open discussion on the continuity and interconnection between ‘needs’ and ‘rights’, while the second is to introduce the international legal framework as a referral map for the developing and undertaking of interventions of protection with a holistic, systemic and preventive approach.
The overall framework of legal statements set down by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in combination with the other international legal provisions concerned is introduced as the referral structure within which the analysis and the national and trans-national strategies have to be developed.
The law is not exclusively considered in its primary legal meaning, but also as contributing factor at the identification of an area of intervention. In addition to the legal standards, the Convention provides also a framework of different thematic areas that need to be considered when developing holistic approaches in policy and practice. These thematic areas cover a continuum of measures for prevention, protection and empowerment of the child. Therefore, the Convention enables the identification of a common ground of action as result of the blending between the intervention operated throughout strategies and policies and the legal standards guaranteed by the international law.
From this approach, the needs and rights as enshrined by international norms are classified in four areas: Survival, Development, Protection and Participation. These four dimensions represent the referral map of a holistic approach minded not only to underline the centrality of the person involved, but also the preventive and protective resources available to tackle the trafficking phenomenon.
Learning objectives for participants:
® 2012-2013 IMPACT
Improving and Monitoring Protection Systems
Against Child Trafficking and Exploitation