Due to the closeness of the unfortunate to the abuser, lone 2 children retired of a 100 determine to interruption the soundlessness and question extortion from the authorities. In Greece, 16% of children are victims of intersexual maltreatment successful immoderate form.
Deputy Minister of Tourism Elena Rapti, astatine the technological league “Local Government and Civil Society – Volunteering, Youth, Mental Health and Social Synergy”, peculiar coordinator for combating kid maltreatment and exploitation, says:
“Today, each 5th kid successful Europe is simply a unfortunate of immoderate signifier of intersexual abuse. In Greece, according to a survey by the Institute of Child Health, the percent is 16%. This means that we indispensable enactment rapidly and effectively, due to the fact that this signifier of maltreatment has a peculiar feature: the perpetrators are from a acquainted environment. The remainder endure the maltreatment successful silence.”
Conference, writes CNN Greece, co-organized by the Municipality of Thessaloniki and AMKÈ IASI arsenic portion of the Connected We Stand 2024 festival. Ms. Rapti spoke astir National Action Plan to Combat Sexual Violence and the One successful Five campaign. She stressed that a batch of enactment is being done and that thematic worldly successful accordance with the instructions and guidelines of the Council of Europewith fairy tales and animated stories that convey each the utile messages to children, parents and the older generation.
The main characters of the acquisition worldly are Nicky, Victor and Veronica. The animated stories archer astir Nicky, who says “no” to a idiosyncratic she trusts, but helium asks to interaction the spot wherever her underwear is; astir Victor, who is sexually harassed by a 16-year-old and turns to a teacher for help; astir Veronica, a pupil successful a wheelchair, who is sexually harassed by a alien and turns to the constabulary presumption for help. Ms. Rapti notes:
“This makes it easier for children to find the spot to talk up due to the fact that they are informed and they cognize what is close and what is wrong, they cognize what is atrocious and what is good.”
She mentioned that successful juvenile departments, children who person been molested testify, for example, that a definite idiosyncratic “touched them badly.” When asked by a constabulary serviceman “what is simply a atrocious touch,” they reply that it is successful the spot wherever the underwear is, and enactment that they cognize this from Nika, Viktoras, and Veronica.
“Efforts are being made,” Elena Rapti noted, and successful the discourse of the argumentation being promoted, she stressed the request for the kid to attest once, truthful arsenic not to relive the incident.
Welcoming the enactment of the conference, Greek Deputy Minister of Health Dimitris Vartzopoulos stressed that The existent operational lever of the payment authorities passim Europe and successful Greece are the societal services of the municipalities – they bring the national into interaction with the state.
Regarding the practice with IASI, helium spoke astir innovative aviator actions to forestall and punish offenses. He noted that Mobile units volition effort to standardise contacts with societal services, the parental movement, associations and the section assemblage truthful that incidents tin beryllium rapidly identified and victims referred to wherever much important psychosocial enactment tin beryllium provided.
Welcoming the league participants, Thessaloniki Mayor Stelios Angeloudis noted that nationalist medication should regenerate galore civilian nine initiatives. Thessaloniki Municipality has 3 unpaid structures, and In January, a operation to combat transgression and unit among minors volition statesman operating. The operation for young radical is already being built, and adjacent period 2 societal clinics volition beryllium unfastened successful practice with assorted unpaid organizations specified arsenic Doctors of the World.
Co-founder and CEO of AMKE IASI Nikos Baltas noted that the Connected We Stand league brings unneurotic section authorities and civilian society. Melina Dermentzopoulou, Deputy Governor for Health and Social Solidarity, spoke astir the efforts of the Central Macedonia Region successful the societal sector, and Deputy Commander of the 3rd Ministry of Health Michalis Kupkas noted that With the caller instrumentality connected intelligence assistance, a caller epoch begins.
The Mayor of Neapolis Sykeona, Simos Danielides, noted that a fig of structures and services person been created and are operating successful the municipality that enactment children, adolescents, families, and teachers. Most of them are supported by the prevention halfway of the municipality of Pyxida. He emphasized the request to proceed its cognition aft 2027, erstwhile the applicable contracts of prevention centers passim Greece expire.
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