ENOC Chair delivers a keynote speech at the International Congress on Children's Rights in the Year of Janusz Korczak



In the framework of the 2012-Year of Janusz Korczak, organized under the auspices of the Republic of Poland and coordinated by Poland's Ombudsman for Children, an International Congress on "The Rights of the Child to Respect-Challenges of the 21st century", took place on 4-6 December 2012 in Warsaw, Poland. The Congress is the concluding event of a series of events organized throughout the year all across the world to spread the memory and to promote the ideas of Janusz Korczak in the children's rights field.

At the invitation of Mr. Marek Michalak, Ombudsman for Children of Poland and ENOC past Chair, the ENOC Chair, Ms. Leda Koursoumba delivered a key note speech on "Janusz Korczak and the Convention on the Rights of the Child".

 

Click here to check out the Congress programme!

pdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/Speech ENOC Chair Korczak Congress Dec2012 Final.doc

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