Memo: Follow-up to the EU strategy on the rights of the child

The European Commission is engaged in the implementation of its strategy on the Rights of the Child, which was announced in its 2006 communication 'Towards an EU strategy on the rights of the child'. A number of actions envisaged in the communication have already been launched. The EU has developed various concrete policies and programmes on children’s rights, spanning both internal and external policies and covering a broad range of issues, such as child trafficking and sexual abuse, violence against children, discrimination, child poverty, social exclusion, child labour, health and education.