Children’s Rights Center launches project to prevent violence against children

The Children’s Rights Center has launched the project “Let’s Stop Violence against Children,” Info-Prim Neo reports. According to the Center, the project is aimed at sensitizing the general public to the negative effects of violence against children and at promoting positive education without violence by involving mass media as important factor in changing the society’s opinion on this phenomenon. A training course for reporters working in the print media, on radio and TV will be organized as part of the project until February 2009, when the project will be completed. There will be announced a contest of journalistic articles/reports on the topic “Let’s Stop Violence against Children”. The project includes the distribution of informative materials, placement of advertisements on the radio and in newspapers. The project is implemented by the Children’s Rights Center with the financial assistance of the Sofia-based organization Global Initiative on Psychiatry. The Children’s Rights Center is a nongovernmental organization created to provide legal and other kind of assistance to children and youth. The Center’s beneficiaries include children and young persons, specialists that work with the children, central and local public authorities that focus on children’s rights protection, national and international organizations, etc.