This morning Queen Silvia accompanied by Princess Madeleine, Chris O’Neill and Princess Leonore visited the Vatican where they were given an audience with Pope Francis. The premise of the visit was to attend and open a seminar that looks at that the theme of ‘Human Trafficking with a Special Focus on Children’. See the whole chronicle here:
Queen Silvia, Princess Madeleine, Chris O’Neill and Princess Leonore are in Rome for two days visit.
” Three generations of my family met with the Pope today at the Vatican, all of us united in the fight against child trafficking ” , Princess Madeleine wrote to her facebook page, this morning.
Princess Leonor was more than sweet.
Queen Silvia of Sweden speaking at a Vatican Seminar which focused on human trafficking but especially child trafficking. They discussed the importance of prevention through strengthening education, fight poverty to decrease the number at-risk of trafficking, and to use technology to inform the public but especially parents and children.
Besides Her Majestry Queen Silvia and her daughter Princess Madeleine of Sweden, the Head of Pontifical Academy of Science Werner Arber, Swedish Minister Asa Regner, Swedish Chancellor of Justice Anna Skarhed, and representatives from the World Childhood Foundation were in attendance.
The purpose of the seminar was to highlight the special situation of children as victims of human trafficking as well as what measures, be it national legislation or international efforts, can be taken to protect better the rights of children.
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