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The Aga Khan University Institute for Human Development is calling for conference presentation proposals for its inaugural conference on 12-14 February 2015. The deadline to submit a proposal is on 21 November 2015.
In early September, Gerison Lansdown and Tricia Young attended the first ever conference hosted by Keeping Children Safe on ‘Child Safeguarding in an African Conference’. The three day event took place in Cape Town and was attended by about 300 people.
Gerison Lansdown, Chair of Child to Child, helped design a new course on children’s rights for health workers in East Africa. It is accessible on the Open University.
Funky Dragon is the Children and Young People’s Assembly for Wales but it will have to shut down on 30 September 2014 because the Welsh government cut its core funding.
On Monday 28 July CATS focused on Children as educators. 10 year old Tobias presents his report on the 6-10 year olds and what they have been doing to explore this topic.
Early June, the Global Summit to end sexual violence in conflict put the issue on top of the international agenda, but it overlooked the plight of children, who are inherently vulnerable in conflict.
The Bond Child Rights Working Group is taking part in the Global Summit to end sexual violence in conflict with a special event on how to protect children in these settings.
Child rights practitioners met in London on 21 May 2014; they shared best practices on children’s participation and attended a ChildHope workshop on its new training guide.