This event aims at sensitising on the phenomenon of sexual abuse, highlighting the dimensions it has acquired, as well as informing on the adoption of measures in view of confronting the phenomenon in a comprehensive way, and strengthening the protection of child victims/witnesses.

Moderation:

L.-A. Sicilianos, Dean of the Faculty of Law-NKUA, f. President of the ECtHR

Dr. Μ.-Α. Kostopoulou, President of the Steering Committee for the Rights of the Child (CDENF)

Acknowledgments:

George Kotsiras, Deputy Minister of Justice

Speakers:

Dr. Eftychia Katsigaraki, Criminologist, Head of the Directorate General for Special Legal Issues and Human Rights, Ministry of Justice

Theoni Koufonikolakou, President of the European Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC) and Deputy Ombudsperson on the Rights of the Child

Elena Rapti, MEP, Coordinator of the Council of Europe “ONE in FIVE” Campaign to stop sexual violence against children

George Nikolaidis, Psychiatrist, Director of the Directorate on Mental Health and Social Welfare of the Institute on Children’s Health

Kostas Giannopoulos, President of the “The Smile of a Child”.