(a) Child victim and witness specialists to address the child's special needs

Very often efforts at rehabilitation are concentrated on the offender rather than on the child victim.

Q22 Are there rehabilitation programmes for the child both as a victim and as the accused?

In April 2005, the Government announced the establishment of a Child Victim Services Program to assist child victims witnesses involved in the criminal justice process.

This should be done in order to protect the child victim from potentially harmful public and media attention.

The course of justice demands a proper balance between the rights of the child victim and the accused.

(d) Difficulties in reconciling the rights of the accused with the rights of the child victim to protection.

It covers the range of involvement of the child whether as victim or complainant, alleged offender, or as witness.

The Department of Justice trains trainers of local law enforcement agents on victim orientation in cases of child exploitation.

Thus, a multidisciplinary approach should, in particular, be cultivated in courts and among the judiciary to child victim cases.

In civil cases, the child victim may directly register an appeal of the verdict through his or her legal representative.

The same thing happens when the identity of the child victim and the confidentiality of the proceedings are not respected

Child victims and witnesses should receive assistance from support persons, such as child victim witness specialists, commencing at the initial report and continuing until such services are no longer required.

69. The observer for Belgium emphasized the importance of strengthening the legal position of the child victim in the judicial proceedings.

A child who died of malnutrition in an area where landmines prevented access to vital agricultural land was as much a mine victim as the child who was struck down directly.

In court cases involving child victims of sexual abuse, care should be taken that awareness is raised using the case against the perpetrator rather than the situation of the child victim.

Children between the ages of 14 and 16 are investigated only if, while participating in child trafficking, they have raped, intentionally killed, or intentionally caused grievous bodily harm to a child victim.

The child victim may express his or her views to the court through his or her legal representative or agent ad litem.

Higher penalties are imposed where the victim is a child, or is exploited, endangered or subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

(a) Institute regular training and sensitization programmes for specialized police officers appointed to deal with child victims, adopting a victim centred approach

B. Protocols for correctional personnel working with victims and victim assistance (a) victim information and notification (b) victim involvement in decision making (c) victim education programmes (d) victim impact programmes (e) victim offender dialogue programmes (f) staff victimization.

The child victim and his or her legal representative also have the right to appoint an agent ad litem to attend court proceedings.

In practice, when a teacher has a serious suspicion that a child is the victim of abuse, the teacher must inform the police.

This is because the justice system often fails to regard the child victim as a major claimant of protection in the legal processes.

The physical and psychological well being of the child victim may outweigh the right of the accused to confront his or her accuser.

Mindful also of the fact that the participation of child victims and witnesses in the criminal justice process is necessary for effective prosecutions, in particular where the child victim may be the only witness,

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(c) The problem of how to manage the child victim to ensure his or her presence when needed also applies at the trial stage

It also punishes procurement and forced prostitution and stipulates the aggravating circumstances when the victim is a child aged under 14 if the purpose is to transport him or her abroad, or if the victim is pregnant (arts. 308 310).

B. Protocols for prosecutors working with victims and victim assistance (a) victim information and notification (b) victim restitution (c) involving the victim in decision making (d) staff victimization.

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68. The Committee also welcomes the quot victim friendly courts quot initiative aimed at providing special counselling for the rehabilitation of victims of child sexual abuse.

C. Victims involvement in corrections victims opportunity to participate in (a) victim offender dialogue (b) victim education classes (c) victim impact panels

When a case of this type reaching a people's court involves the private affairs of a child victim, the court may decide to hold proceedings in camera.

(iii) Deposition, if the court is satisfied that attendance before a court of the child victim would involve serious danger to his or her life or health.

The appointment of a guardian to accompany the child victim of trafficking throughout the entire legal process, as well as the provision of appropriate shelter for child victims aimed at avoiding the risk of re victimization, should be encouraged.

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(c) Victim support

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(i) Victim compensation

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