Recent headlines have been reminding us very cruelly on the climate and food crisis taking a heavy toll on a whole part of Africa. This financial, economic, climatic and energetic crisis affects us globally. And yet the effects of this crisis are felt more acutely in developing countries, thus directly affecting children: it is indeed a threat for their life and survival, but also for the realisation of their rights. The vision of the upcoming international IDE Seminar “Climate Change: Impacts on Children and on their Rights” (October 25-28th) is accordingly to conduct interdisciplinary reflection on the effects of these new phenomena (access to water, food, energy, and climate change) in order to outline solutions and practices promoting harmonious development for the child, respect for her/ his rights, in the universally acknowledged context of sustainable development. For this event the International Institute for the Rights of the Child (IDE) has secured itself the precious collaboration of the University Institute Kurt Boesch (IUKB) and of the NGO Terre des hommes – child relief. Objectives By confronting theory/practice, legal frame/field reality, the Seminar aims at: giving a clear view on the problems: presentation of the reality experienced by children, ob-ligations and responsibilities of States, new technologies, water, food, energy, knowledge of the main phenomena and reference texts sustaining research and intervention bringing up especially blatant situations and identifying causes, with a concern for scientific objectivity; singling out best practices, by exchanges of experiences between international organiza-tions, NGOs, UN agencies, State officials, private industry, trade...; identifying possible synergies between the various stakeholders and identifying possible actions in the short, middle and long run; For further details on the event, click here.
Climate Change: Impacts on Children and on their Rights
Web:
http://www.childsrights.org/html/site_en/index.php?c=for_sem
Link :
http://www.crin.org/docs/ProgrammeE.pdf
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