Regional Seminar for partners from Eastern Europe and Caucasus on Child Sexual Abuse

Regional Seminar for partners from Eastern Europe and Caucasus on Child Sexual Abuse was held in Tbilisi on September 25-27, 2017. The Seminar was hosted by the Public Health Foundation of Georgia.

Regional seminar had the following objectives:

- To share good practices developed by partners and BICE in the frame of the program

- To discuss between partners and with the participation of the main experts of the program the difficulties and the perspectives in the field of child sexual abuse

Main participants (organizations)of the seminar were: BICE (Switzerland), Public Health Foundation (Georgia), Arevamanuk (Armenia), Empowering Children Foundation (Poland), Children Support Center (Lithuania), Women’s Consortium of Ukraine (Ukraine), Doctors to Children (Russia), Caritas Saint-Petersburg (Russia), Civic Initiative (Russia), Municipal Centre “Otradnoye” (Russia) and Bir Duino (Kyrgyzstan).

International and local child protection experts discussed such important topics as: incest, online-counseling for children in crisis situation, including children victims of violence, Barnhaus/Child Advocacy Centre model and philosophy, Georgian Juvenile Justice code and protection of children victims of abuse and etc.