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Child Rights Week: March 31 - April 4
The second annual Child Rights Conference will be held on Friday, April 4th, concluding a week-long series of events on child rights, starting Monday March 31st.
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- The Child Rights Conference is the annual spring conference hosted by the Child Rights Working Group at Columbia University.
Child Rights Week: March 31 - April 4
The second annual Child Rights Conference will be held on Friday, April 4th, concluding a week-long series of events on child rights, starting Monday March 31st.
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- Child Rights Week: The Child Right to Participation
March 31 – April 4
Monday, March 31
"Child Participation 101"
Participatory workshop on Child Participation with:
- Roger Hart: Co-Director of Children's Environments Research Group, CUNY and "Author of Children's Participation: From Tokenism to Citizenship" AND
- Ravi Karkara: Child Participation Specialist at the Adolescent Development and Participation (ADAP) unit, UNICEF
Time: 3:00 – 6:00pm: Monday, March 31
Location: Lerner Hall – Broadway Room
Register here: http://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/get.php?vt=detail&id=21746&con=embedded&br=ais#
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Tuesday, April 1
"Workshop on Participatory Action Research Methods with Children."
-Led by Professor Mike Wessells: Senior Child Protection Specialist for Christian Children’s Fund, Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Healtha; and Co-Chair of U. N. Task Force on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings.
Time: 1:00 -3:00pm: Tuesday, April 1
Location: Lerner Hall, East Ramp Lounge
Register here:
http://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/get.php?vt=detail&id=21755&con=embedded&br=ais#
“Children’s Participation in the Media”
-Neha Bhandari: is the author of many child-friendly reports, including, “Act Support and Protect” and “Global Capacity Building Workshop on Community and Child Centred Advocacy for Ending Violence against Children”
Time: 6:00 – 8:00pm: Tuesday, April 1
Location: Lerner Hall – Room 569
Register Here:
http://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/get.php?vt=detail&id=21761&con=embedded&br=ais
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Wednesday, April 2
"Committee on the Rights of the Child: Comment on Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)"
Preview presentation on the yet un-released Comment on Child Participation/Article 12 of the CRC with
- Victor Karunan: Chief of the Adolescent Development and Participation (ADAP) unit at UNICEF
Time: 5:00 - 7:00pm, Wednesday, April 2
Location: Lerner Hall, Room 555
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"Miramax Screening of Tsotsi"
Time: 8:30 - 10:30pm, Wednesday April 2
Location: Lerner Hall, Roone Arledge Cinema
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Thursday, April 3
"Representing Adolescents: Child Participation in Practice"
Discussion with law students currently representing clients in collateral issues relating to their aging out of foster care or other institutional settings. They will discuss the advantages and challenges of youth clients participating in decision-making about their cases as well as participatingin specific proceedings affecting them. The law students are practicing as a part of the Child Advocacy Clinic at Columbia Law School
-Introduced by Prof. Jane Spinak: Director of the Child Advocacy Clinic at Columbia Law
Time: 5:00 – 6:30pm Thursday, April 3
Location: Columbia Law School, Jerome Green Annex (behind law school - in East Campus)
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Friday, April 4
Conference “The Child Right to Participation: Ethical Challenges”
Time: 10:30 am – 6:00 pm
Location: Columbia Law School, Room 103
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10:30am – Check-In and Pick-up of materials.
• Panel 1: Child Right to Participation in Legal Settings 11:00 – 12:30pm
with panelists:
-Renee Mitler: Law Guardian, LegalAid;
-Lisa Gitelson: Supervisor, Administration for Children Services;
-Jacqueline Deane: Professor NYU Law School, Children's Rights Clinic and Delinquency Trainer at LegalAid;
-Shante Martin, Coordinator of Red Hook Youth Court and former youth court member.
~ Lunch Break 12:30 – 1:20pm ~
• Panel 2: Child Right to Participation in Education Systems; 1:30 – 2:30pm
-Panel Moderator: Ravi Karkara, Child Participation Specialist at the Adolescent Development and Participation unit, UNICEF, formerly with Save the Children Sweden as Regional Programme Manager for South and Central Asia.
with Panelists:
-Colette Daiute, Professor, Graduate Center, CUNY and Editor of International Perspectives on Youth Conflict and Development
- Katherine Covell, Executive Director of the Cape Breton University Children's Rights Centre
- John Santelli, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health; - Gertrud Lenzer, Professor of Sociology and Children’s Studies and Director of the Children’s Studies Program and Center, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Break-Out Session with Panelists 2:40 – 3:15pm
~ Break with Coffee, Tea and Cookies 3:15 – 3:30pm ~
• Panel 3: Beyond the Classroom: Child Right to Participation and Civic Engagement; 3:30 – 4:30 pm
- Panel Moderator: Robert Fullilove, Associate Dean for Community and Minority Affairs and Associate Professor of Clinical Public Health in Sociomedical Sciences
with Panelists:
- Brian Howe: Director of the Cape Breton University Children's Rights Centre;
- Cecile Mazzacurati, UNFPA Crisis Prevention;
- Pedro Noguera Professor in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at NYU and Executive Director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education.
Break-Out Session with Panelists 4:30 – 5:15pm
~ Reception 5:15 –6:00pm ~
