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''Local and regional elected representatives have a responsibility to ensure that children’s rights are protected,'' said Congress President Keith Whitmore at the Conference on the Council of Europe Strategy for the Rights of the Child in Monaco on 20 November 2011. ''The Congress has contributed actively to the Council of Europe programmes for children’s right and protection, such as its new Strategic Actions Plan which covers the local and regional dimension of the ONE in FIVE Campaign,'' he added. ''The Congress will continue in the battle to rid Europe of violence of all sorts against children,'' he concluded.