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She has been working for more than 16 years for the Council of Europe in many
areas including protecting and promoting minority languages, developing
legal norms in the area of public and private law, including the guidelines
on child-friendly justice. Since 2010 she has been the Council of Europe Coordinator on Children’s Rights and is currently heading the Children’s Rights
Division. In these capacities she follows the implementation of the Council of
Europe Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2012-2015) and is at
present launching the preparations for the elaboration of the next Council
of Europe Strategy protecting children and promoting their rights.

Margaret TUITE
Margaret Tuite is the European Commission coordinator for rights of the
child since 1 November 2011 in the unit responsible for fundamental
rights and the rights of the child of DG Justice, where the focus is on
implementation of the EU Agenda for the rights of the child.

Together

with a small team, Margaret works to coordinate Commission activities
on rights of the child.

Coordination is done with the help of regular

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