Child Rights: ‘Opportunities and Challenges: Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child’

The Research Forum for the Child at Queen's University Belfast  is holding its annual seminar on the theme of ‘Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child’ at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland on 1st and 2nd June 2011. The opening address will be given by Professor Michael Freeman, Professor of English Law at University College London and Founding Editor of the International Journal on Children’s Rights. Guest speakers also include Professor David Archard, Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Lancaster; Dr Asher Ben-Arieh, from Hebrew University, Jerusalem, an international expert on social indicators; Dr Ursula Kilkelly, expert on children’s rights litigation and Director of the Child Law Clinic, University College Cork;  Gerison Lansdown, International Children’s Rights Consultant and a Forum visiting scholar in 2011; and Professor Audrey Osler, University of Leeds, a leading expert on children’s rights education.

The programme can be accessed at:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/TheResearchForumForTheChild/News/June2011Conference/

Registration can be completed online at:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/TheResearchForumForTheChild/News/June2011Conference/

Please note that registration for this event closes on 15 May 2011.

For further information see the Research Forum for the Child website or contact June Clawson [email protected]

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