🎉 Wishing you a Happy New Year from all of us at Eurochild! 🎉 This year, our focus remains on striving for a society in which all children and young people grow up happy, healthy, confident, and respected as individuals in their own right. buff.ly/3orst6F

Earlier this year, the Eurochild team shared books that captured downtime, reflection, and recharging. These reads are just as great for winter moments, from essays that make you think to stories that transport you elsewhere. ✨ Happy reading: buff.ly/066AiU4

🎄This holiday season, let’s make #ChildRights visible! With your support, we can do more: influence those in power, strengthen policies, and create real change for children. Can we count on you? Donate now: buff.ly/xGYp1j7

📬Our last newsletter of the year has just landed! Discover highlights from our latest events and a very special podcast episode featuring the Eurochild Children’s Council. Want to stay in the loop? Subscribe to our monthly eNews Bulletin! #ChildRights #ChildParticipation

Across Europe unaccompanied children seek safety and a future. Guardians play a vital role, but their work isn’t simple. The GUIDE project supports guardians with practical tools that put children’s needs first: buff.ly/5hI6o3o #InternationalMigrantsDay #GUIDEforGuardians

We are hiring an Events and Child Participation Intern! 📍 Location: Brussels 📅 Start: March 2026 (6 months) 💶 Remuneration: €1,250/month 📌 Deadline: 2 January (9 am CET) 📄 Apply here: eurochild.org/vacancies #EUJobs #ChildRights #InternshipOpportunity

Children aren’t just the future, they’re the present! In our new podcast episode, we discuss with Eurochild Children's Council members accessible language, how to involve young people from the start and move from tokenism to real #childparticipation eurochild.org/news/podcast...

Today we sent the last #FirstYearsFirstPriority campaign newsletter! If it's not in your inbox, you can take a look below. Plenty of resources and updates on early childhood education and care are waiting for you: 📬https://mailchi.mp/eurochild/fyfp-december-2025

The new EU Civil Society Strategy brings progress- stronger protection for rights defenders, better CSO engagement & fairer funding. But gaps remain: children's rights lack dedicated focus and meaningful participation must be enforced buff.ly/GUjaHnT #HumanRightsDay #AntiRights

📝 On 3 December 2025, the EMPL Committee adopted its position on the upcoming #EUAntiPovertyStrategy, urging a comprehensive, ambitious and well-funded plan with meaningful targets. We call on MEPs to uphold this ambition in January’s plenary vote. 🗳️ 🔗 buff.ly/UMSZFTc

EU governments agreed on their position on the Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse. This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build a strong, child-rights-based framework to prevent and address child sexual abuse across Europe. buff.ly/w93hrVW #ChildRightsOnline

Grateful to the @eesc.bsky.social for featuring our opinion piece on the state of children’s rights and the discrimination faced by the most vulnerable in Europe! Projects like #GUIDEforGuardians are vital to ensuring every child gets the care they deserve. 👉 buff.ly/fLSXtpW

Eurochild, together with members Cedar Foundation (Bulgaria) and MODS (Serbia) is joining the #EDPD2025 exploring the path toward a fair, resilient, & inclusive Union. Read about their work with children on our website: 🇷🇸 buff.ly/L4IP9Yv 🇧🇬 buff.ly/YFIzbz3

With MEP Hristo Petrov at the #EuropeanParliament marking the end of our project “Leveraging EU Influence to Deliver Change for Families in Adversity in #Bulgaria.” We call for action to tackle poverty, discrimination and child separation. buff.ly/WFP9wQ2

Eurochild is releasing a sub-report on #ChildProtection and preventing #FamilySeparation, drawing on insights from our 2025 flagship report. The findings are clear: across Europe, strong legal commitments to protect family life often clash with policies that undermine prevention. buff.ly/A0pUKN0

Today, the European Parliament adopted its report on the protection of minors online. While the adoption marks an important milestone, some areas will need further evidence and cross-sector expertise to ensure measures truly support #ChildRightsOnline. buff.ly/LfUNdWx

Through the #GUIDEforGuardians project, we've launched resources to support professionals & guardians of unaccompanied children 📘 Manuals for Trainers 🗺️ Maps of Service Providers 🌀 Listening Circles Guidelines 📊 Guardianship System Assessments All tailored to national contexts: buff.ly/VSJWleG

New Eurochild report out today: 'Unequal Childhoods: Rights on paper should be rights in practice'. Based on data from 84 members in 36 countries, it reveals the real state of #ChildRights & #ChildPoverty in Europe. #WorldChildrensDay 👉 buff.ly/aKSWaOO

On this World Day for the Prevention of and Healing from Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Violence, we are once again calling EU leaders to act. Children cannot wait for perfect legislation; they need protection now. #PassTheLaw - Children can’t wait any longer buff.ly/RHq9eXM

CSOs working with and for children are too often the last in line when EU resources are allocated. That’s why Eurochild, together with Bulgarian partners & members, has published new tools to make #EUfunds more accessible, transparent, & impactful for children & families. buff.ly/xCZ6vQ5

Leaders have FAILED to protect children from online sexual abuse. The technology exists to prevent harm. Other countries have acted. Why haven’t we? Protection Delayed = Protection Denied #PassTheLaw - Children can’t wait any longer bit.ly/3IHRrth

As conflicts, the climate crisis, inequality & digital harm reshape childhood, the EU must keep child rights at the centre of its agenda. On #WorldChildrensDay our event at the @europarl.europa.eu will highlight how children’s voices can drive change buff.ly/GH7Ex82

Unaccompanied children need to be heard & supported while waiting to reunite with family or get documents. Our #GUIDEforGuardians Italian partner CESIE shares how Listening Circles help guardians support each other & the children they protect youtu.be/-dewJSe5DhI

⚠️ Protecting human rights is not a crime! In this reel, our Comms Coordinator Davide Rambaldi explains how #AntiRights movements are spreading across Europe and beyond, silencing voices, shrinking civic space, and threatening democracy itself. eurochild.org/initiative/f...

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Disinformation & #AntiRights attacks threaten #Albania’s Draft Law on Gender Equality! Removing protections for gender identity would undermine EU alignment & human rights progress. Read our member CRCA-ECPAT Albania concerns: buff.ly/ZW7uQ68

Thank you to all consultants, researchers, @uniofgalway.bsky.social, @deusto.bsky.social, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, & Middlesex Uni for taking part in our Academic Café! As a Eurochild member, you get access to training, networking, funding opportunities & more: eurochild.org/become-a-mem...

#EurochildGA: Full Eurochild members are invited to cast their votes online from 17-28 November on new member applications and governance updates. To know how, check your inbox or visit our Members Room, where you can also watch video messages from candidates: buff.ly/tkEIKIz

This month, Eurochild hosted the first in-person meeting of its NOVA Council – the Network of Online Visionaries in Action – in Brussels! The group brings together children aged 12 to 17 who are passionate about shaping a safer, more inclusive digital world. buff.ly/MFl2NJB

We are looking for a Policy, Advocacy and Communications Intern! 📜6 months with possible extension 🇪🇺 Brussels-based Read more and apply by 31 October: eurochild.org/vacancies #Brussels #internship #vacancy

An inclusive system is not a privilege, it’s a right! The #TurinDeclaration calls for strong, inclusive care systems that empower families & carers EU & national leaders need to: 🟠Deliver an EU Care Deal 🟠Advance the EU Disability Strategy 🟠Strengthen the Child Guarantee buff.ly/2DTucBx

In 2026, the European Commission will launch the EU Anti-Poverty Strategy, which comes at a time of increasing hardship and exclusion. As a coalition, we call for a strong, comprehensive, and human rights-based approach to the Strategy. Joint statement: buff.ly/cM3MFCj

In this short reel, our colleague Julie Diane Bartoňová-Dobenínová explains what the EU should do to fight child poverty. We need targeted policies and adequate funding to make the EU Anti-Poverty strategy effective! Stay tuned for more from our new "In 1 Minute" series!

How can we help children fleeing war and their guardians? How can we improve child protection systems? Our podcast is back! Listen to a new episode with @easpd.eu: buff.ly/gW1roPk #GUIDEforGuardians

⚠️ Today in Brussels, ECLAG staged a powerful stunt: a classroom set up in the heart of EU decision-making to represent the countless European children affected by sexual abuse. What is Europe waiting for? #PassTheLaw - Children can’t wait any longer buff.ly/3RiFj34

Interesting article @brusselstimes.com ! Indeed there's the need of a culture shift regarding fathers' leave. We've also published an animated short film about it, showing the benefits of fathers’ engagement in childcare: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m55...

Great to see our colleague Fabiola Bas Palomares featured in @politico.eu on the debate over a potential EU social media ban for children, which is “incongruous with rights to protection, information, education, freedom of expression & play" 📰 www.politico.eu/.../eu-age-l... @politico.com

Trapped children in Gaza, the Flotilla, and Europe’s Double Standards Europe must uphold international law & ensure children trapped in Gaza are safely reunited with their families Read our statement: buff.ly/1p2Vp5l

What shapes children’s mental well-being? Mental health must be seen as part of a broader system of care, especially early in life. 👉 Explore insights in our #FirstYearsFirstPriority newsletter: mailchi.mp/eurochild/fyfp-september-2025

📣From knowledge to action: How article 42 makes children’s rights real @eurochild-org.bsky.social explore how the duty to inform transforms children’s rights from legal texts into lived experiences ➡️ eurochild.org/news/from-kn...

🚨 In 2026, the EU will present its first Anti-Poverty Strategy. But words aren’t enough; we need action. Our civil society coalition calls for a strategy that’s: ✅Ambitious ✅Rights-based ✅Intersectional Poverty must stay at the centre of EU politics. buff.ly/sCNbdja

#UNCRC #Article42: everyone should know about #ChildrensRights My colleague Dr Carine Le Borgne and I, explore how knowledge turns into action 👇 ‘How Article 42 makes children’s rights real’ eurochild.org/news/from-kn... #RightsNotWrongs @eurochild-org.bsky.social

📢 19.5M children in Europe were at risk of poverty in 2024. Eradicating child poverty must be a core objective of the renewed European Pillar of Social Rights. It’s a moral duty and a smart investment in our future. Read our full contribution: buff.ly/AsSFBdT

Unaccompanied children face huge challenges arriving alone in a new country. Guardians step in to guide and protect them. Hear their stories from Ukraine & beyond in our new #GUIDEforGuardians video. 🎥 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCHJ...

We welcome the EU’s renewed focus on #ChildPoverty with #EuropeanChildGuarantee, strengthening democracy, & protecting freedoms in today's #SOTEU address. But we are concerned about the lack of attention to #equality & central role of #ChildRights and #CivilSociety. Full reaction: buff.ly/lctvX6R

As we follow #SOTEU 2025, today’s EU Parliament debate, “After 10 years, time to end mass migration now – protect our women & children” deserves attention. We condemn the instrumentalisation of women & children and the framing of migrants as threats, not people with rights buff.ly/rriZJXB

Many thanks to @missingchildreneu.bsky.social , @eurochild-org.bsky.social , Thorn, @terredeshommes.bsky.social and @ecpat.bsky.social for an excellent exchange on protecting children from child sexual abuse, in the real world and online.

Today, we met Commissioner @magnusbrunner.bsky.social to discuss the vital opportunity the EU has to the #childsexualabuse crisis that Europe faces #online. After three years of negotiations, it is time for EU Member States to step up to protect #children online.

North Macedonia adopted its Plan on the Rights of the Child, a key step to protect & promote #ChildRights! Developed with children, institutions & civil society, including Eurochild member Megjashi. Read about it from our member: buff.ly/CAhAHAV

This week, Eurochild, in collaboration with Maestral International and @unicef-ukraine.bsky.social, delivered a training session for UNICEF Ukraine’s Child Protection officers and specialists, focusing on the #EUChildGuarantee and its relevance for #children. Read more: buff.ly/X9yGMZy