International Conference: Challenges in Children's Rights

Summary: The Conference ‘Challenges in Children’s Right' aims at comparing ideas and facilitating an exchange of information between researchers, professionals, staff and students from diverse children’s rights programmes on the future directions and challenges in the interdisciplinary study of children's rights, as well as on recent developments in the international legal and social arenas pertaining to children's rights. The Conference is meant for professionals, researchers and students involved in children’s rights.

The Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch (IUKB) and the University of Fribourg Switzerland are organising an International Conference "Challenges in Children’s Rights" on Saturday 18 November 2006 (Sion, Switzerland).

The Conference ‘Challenges in Children’s Rights’ aims at comparing ideas and facilitating an exchange of information between researchers, professionals, staff and students from diverse children’s rights programmes on the future directions and challenges in the interdisciplinary study of children's rights, as well as on recent developments in the international legal and social arenas pertaining to children's rights.

The Conference is addressed to professionals, researchers and students involved in children’s rights.

Plenary speakers include Prof. Savitri Goonesekere (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka), Prof. Jaap Doek (President of the Committee on the Rights of the Child), Mr. Benoît Van Keirsbilck (Defence for Children International) and Mr. Trond Waage (UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Former Norwegian Ombudsman for children).

During the working group sessions, graduate students that participated in the Master of Advanced Studies in Children’s Rights will address challenges in children’s rights via the discussion of their research findings.