The OSCE Mission in Kosovo, in co-operation with Kosovo Police and Terre des Hommes, hosted a conference today in Pristina on children’s rights, with a special focus on child beggars. The participants discussed the institutional co-operation on tackling the issue of child beggars and the protocol on police co-operation for preventing, restricting and combating trafficking in persons, primarily children. It was estimated that the number of child beggars is increasing every day in Albania and Kosovo, and the participants called for inter-institutional cooperation to prevent and stop this phenomenon. The head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Jean-Claude Schlumberger, said that this phenomenon is called abuse. "Forcing children to beg is abusing them, and we need to urgently help these children in order for their rights not to be violated,” Schlumberger said.