UN: Schedule announced for Day on the Rights of the Child 2011

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Summary: The schedule for the 2011 Day on the Rights of the Child, featuring: "Children living and /or working on the street", has been released by OHCHR.

The Annual Day on the Rights of the Child, taking place at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on the 9th March, will include two panels:

Panel One

- The root causes and factors leading children to live and/or work on the street. This morning session will take place from 10:00am to 1pm.

Panelists include:

  • Najat Maalla M'jid, Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
  • Father Patrick Shanahan, President and Founding Member, Street Invest
  • Youth representatives:

    -Sévérine Tangni and Wilfried Essomba from the African Movement of Working Children and Youth (Benin and Cameroun)
    - Mohammad Riaz and Tania Akther, youth representatives from Plan supported Programmes (Bangladesh)

  • Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, Commissioner and Rapporteur on Children, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.


Panel Two

- The conditions of children living and/or working on the street: prevention strategies and responses. This afternoon session will take place from 3pm to 6pm.

Panelists include:

  • Marta Santos Pais, Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence against Children.
  • Abdul Khalique Shaikh, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Sindh, Pakistan
  • Marco Antonio Da Silva Souza, Director, Proyecto Meninos e meninas da rua Brazil
  • Susan Bissell, Chief, Child Protection Unit, UNICEF
  • International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), International Labour Organization (TBC)

For full details of the Day, read the concept note attached.

Further information

pdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/conceptnote-annual full day children.doc

Issues: 
Children living with HIV/AIDS
Children working and living on the street
Emergency relief
Gender and girls
Minority or indigenous children
Attachment Link: 
http://www.crin.org/docs/conceptnote-annual full day children.doc
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Link : 
http://www.crin.org/docs/conceptnote-annual%20full%20day%20children.doc

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