20 September 2005 - CRINMAIL 714
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- DAY OF GENERAL DISCUSSION: Children without Parental Care [event]
- CHILDREN AND VIOLENCE: Speak out against Sexual Abuse [publication]
- E-CHILD PROTECTION: World Summit on the Information Society [news]
- RIGHTS BASED PROGRAMMING: Implications for Policymakers and Donors [event]
- EDUCATION IN EMERGENCIES: Voices of Courage Award [call for nominations]
- EMPLOYMENT: Children's Legal Centre - Pueblito [job postings]___________________________________________________________
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- DAY OF GENERAL DISCUSSION: Children without Parental Care [event]
The Day of General Discussion on Children without Parental Care took place last Friday at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. It attracted some 250 participants from civil society organisations and government departments as well as young people.
The Committee will now draft some Recommendations on Children without Parental Care, based on Friday's discussion, as well as all the contributions and statements given by organisations and other participants to the Discussion Day. Once published, the Recommendations will be announced in CRINMAIL.
Written contributions submitted by NGOs to the Committee on the Rights of the Child are available on the CRIN website at: http://www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.40/Discussion.asp
Oral statements as well as reports for the morning and afternoon sessions will be made available on that page as soon as they become available.
For more information, contact:
Secretariat, Committee on the Rights of the Child
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, UNOG-OHCHR
CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/crc/discussion.htm
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- CHILDREN AND VIOLENCE: Speak out against Sexual Abuse [publication]
The International Save the Children Alliance is contributing to the United Nations Secretary General's Study on Violence against Children by participating in the organisation of the Regional Consultations, and preparing thematic reports at country, regional and international levels and in follow-up actions. It has released a report entitled "10 Essential Learning Points: Listen and Speak out against Sexual Abuse of Girls and Boys".
Children's meaningful and ethical participation is an overarching priority for Save the Children's involvement in the Study and so is gender equality. This report is one of three global thematic submissions to the UN Study; the other two focus on Physical and Humiliating Punishment and Children in Conflict with the Law.
Save the Children is seconding an expert on the participation of girls and boys to support the UN Study Secretariat and has published child-friendly versions of key documents. A toolkit has been produced to encourage children's meaningful and ethical participation in the Study, and the South and Central Asia region has finalised a film: "Children's voices against violence against Girls and Boys" prepared by children.
Save the Children has also made a submission on gender based violence. To explore possible outcomes of the Study, Save the Children has published a discussion paper from a child rights based approach entitled: "After the UN Study - What Next?".
For more information, contact:
International Save the Children Alliance
Cambridge House, 100 Cambridge Grove, London W6 0LE, UK
Tel: + 44 208 748 2554; Fax: + 44 208 237 8000
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.savethechildren.net
Visit: http://www.crin.org/violence/search/closeup.asp?infoID=6224
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- E-CHILD PROTECTION: World Summit on the Information Society [submission]
ECPAT International is calling on the Tunis phase of the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS) to protect children and young people from the dangers which accompany the undoubted benefits of expanding access to the Internet, mobile phones and other new technologies.
Sexual exploitation of children through the Internet and other Information Technologies is one of the worst and fastest-growing computer-related crimes worldwide. The dangers to children include an explosion in child pornography and abuse of children to make it, exposure to sexual predators online, and access and exposure to illegal and dangerous content.
The UN's World Summit on the Information Society is meeting in Geneva in September and in Tunis in November to set policies and standards for how the Internet is run and how new technologies will spread to rural, poor and developing regions for decades to come. So far little attention is being paid to the need and rights of children and young people to be protected from the dangers of Information Technologies.
ECPAT needs help to ensure that child protection measures are included in this final phase of WSIS. Please send a statement of support for ECPAT International's submission (Document WSIS-II/PC-3/CONTR/46) and/or for child protection measures to:
- the WSIS Secretariat at [email protected] and cc: [email protected]. Please mention if your organisation has ECOSOC status.
- your Government - either your Minister of Telecommunications, Trade and Industry, or the minister responsible for children.
For more information, contact:
Karen Mangnall, Communications Officer
ECPAT International
328 Phaya Thai Rd, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
Email: [email protected]
Tel: + 66 2 215 3388 Ext 112
Website: http://www.ecpat.net / http://www.make-IT-safe.net
To read the executive summary of ECPAT International's submission on e-child protection to the Tunis phase of the World Summit on the Information Society, visit: http://www.crin.org/docs/resources/publications/ECPAT_WSIS_submission.doc or
http://www.crin.org/docs/resources/publications/ECPAT_WSIS_submission(S).doc [Spanish]
To read Child Helpline International's submission, visit: http://www.crin.org/docs/resources/publications/CHI_joint_submission.pdf
http://www.crin.org/docs/resources/publications/CHI_submission_and_Stock...
To know more about the World Summit on the Information Society, visit: http://www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=6225&flag=event
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- RIGHTS BASED PROGRAMMING: Implications for Policymakers and Donors [event]
Date: 9-11 November 2005
Location: London, UK
The Centre for International Human Rights, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London is organising a conference on "Reinventing Development: Lessons from Rights-based Practice and its Implications for Policymakers and Donors".
Collaborating partners in the conference also include the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) at Oxford Brookes University and the International Council for Human Rights Policy, Geneva.
The conference seeks to gather further data on the implications and impacts of applying a rights-based approach in practice, and feed this experience into policy and donor debates and communities.
It will also coincide with the launch of an edited collection entitled, "Reinventing Development? Translating Rights-based Approaches from Theory into Practice" by P. Gready and J. Ensor (eds).
For more information, contact:
Mary Sanver
Email: [email protected]
Visit: http://www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=6226&flag=event
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- EDUCATION IN EMERGENCIES: Voices of Courage Award [call for nominations]
Each year the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children holds a luncheon to honour individual refugee women and young people who are working on behalf of other refugees. They are seeking candidates for the "2006 Voices of Courage awards" to be bestowed at the May 2006 luncheon. The theme of the luncheon is "Promoting Education in Emergency Situations."
The award will honour individuals and organisations in the United States and overseas who have been key players in promoting education for children and adolescents displaced by armed conflict.
Some of the criteria are: Candidates should be refugee or internally displaced women or youth who work or have worked to provide education for refugee and internally displaced children and adolescents; candidates should be passionate advocates for the right to education in emergency situations; candidates should be able to travel to New York (11th May) to accept their award.
Nomination deadline: 1 November 2005
For more information, contact:
Attn: Luncheon nominees
Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
122 East 42nd Street, 12th Floor New York, NY 10168-1289
Tel: + 1 212 551 3088; Fax: + 1 212 551 3180
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.womenscommission.org
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- EMPLOYMENT: Children's Legal Centre - Pueblito [job postings]
* THE CHILDREN'S LEGAL CENTRE: International Research and Programme Officer
Location: Colchester, UK
The Children's Legal Centre, a dynamic children's rights organisation, based at the University of Essex, United Kingdom, seeks a full-time Research and Programme Officer to join the international team. The International Research and Programme Officer will undertake international programme management, research legal, thematic and country issues and review and secure funding opportunities. S/he may also be asked to provide specialist input into international projects, such as consultancy and training on children's rights, and to produce materials for journals and in-house publications.
Application deadline: 3 October 2005
For more information, contact:
Elisabetta Valdani
The Children's Legal Centre - International Policy and Programmes
University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ, UK
Tel: + 44 1206 872 466; Fax: + 44 1206 874 026
Email: [email protected]
Visit: http://www.childrenslegalcentre.com
* PUEBLITO CANADA
Location: Toronto, Canada
Pueblito Canada requires an inspirational and strategic leader who can maintain the organisation's role as a premier international development organisation involved in early childhood education care and development, while developing new growth and expansion strategies. Pueblito works in partnership with local organisations to the well being of children in Latin America and Canada. They provide both financial support and capacity building resources. Pueblito also advocates for the rights of children under six in Canada.
For more information, contact:
Search Committee, Pueblito Canada
720 Spadina Ave. Suite 418
Toronto, Ont., M5S 2T9 Canada
Email: [email protected].
Website: http://www.pueblito.org
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