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Childcentre - Baltic Sea Region Children at risk

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The Child Centre serves as web based focal point for information between professionals and officials on research, projects, seminars and conferences concerning children at risk in the Baltic Sea Region. Its objective is to increase awareness and knowledge of services and methods to prevent, protect and rehabilitate children.

The eleven Baltic Sea countries have all ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. They are thereby obliged to take measures to protect children from all forms of sexual exploitation, to prevent the sale of or traffic in children for sexual purposes and to promote physical and psychological recovery, social reintegration of abused and sexually exploited children. It was against this background that governments in the region sought new means to increase collaboration in the interest of preventing child abuse.

Following the World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, held in Stockholm 1996, and the 1998 Baltic Sea States Summit, the Swedish and Norwegian governments undertook to establish a model for enhanced cooperation between professionals and officials in this area. At regional meetings in Tallinn, Stockholm and Visby -followed by child specialist meetings in Stockholm and Oslo -specialists and government officials all agreed to establish the Child Centre network.