Exploring Children's Rights

Coordinators: Prof Laura Lundy & Dr Bronagh Byrne

 

The creation, interpretation and enforcement of children’s rights standards is a key focus for practitioners, academics and civil society advocates.  Indeed, the increasing incorporation of children’s rights into international, regional and domestic instruments, has resulted in these rights being the subject of ever-greater levels of judicial and quasi-judicial attention, leading to extensive discussion and debate about the obligations imposed by, and the limitations applicable to, such rights. More broadly, the growing employment of ‘child rights-based approaches’ by a range of actors, including policymakers and members of the children’s sector, has raised key issues with regard to the definition and content of such approaches.

The 'Exploring Children's Rights' special interest group will bring together researchers from a range of disciplines to consider the usefulness and applicability of children's rights standards, and the limitations of their enforceability, in a wide range of contexts.  The special interest group will also explore the meaning and development of child rights based approaches, drawing on the research experiences of group members. 

This SIG is supported by the Improving Children’s Lives Initiative.

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Seminar: Friday 11 November 2011, 1.30pm - 3.00pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Elmwood Teaching and Learning Centre

‘Parents Rights, Children’s Rights and Decisions about Medical Care’

The 'Exploring Children’s Rights' SIG, in conjunction with the Improving Children’s Lives initiative, is holding a seminar on 'Parents Rights, Children's Rights and Decisions about Medical Care' - Dr Barry Lyons, University of Manchester, will be presenting.

For further information please click here. 

Seminar: Monday 24 October 2011, 3.30pm - 5.00pm
Venue: Room 03/011, Peter Froggatt Centre

‘Child Participation and Voice: Cross-national Perspectives’

The 'Exploring Children’s Rights' SIG, in conjunction with the Improving Children’s Lives initiative, is holding a seminar on ‘Child Participation and Voice: Cross-national Perspectives’ - Professor Beth Blue Swadener from Arizona University will be presenting.

For further information click here.

 Seminar:  Friday 15 April 2011, 12.30-2pm

The Exploring Children’s Rights Special Interest Group is holding a seminar on 15 April 2011. Dr Frédéric Darbellay,  from the University Institute Kurt Bösch (IUKB) in Switzerland.will be presenting on ‘Theorizing children’s rights  as an inter- and transdisciplinary field of study.’

The seminar will take place in Room 01/037, School of Sociology and Social Policy.

For more information please click here. 

Forum Annual Seminar:

OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES: IMPLEMENTING THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD

1-2 June, 2011

The Exploring Children’s Rights Special Interest Group is hosting the Forum’s 2011 Annual Seminar. The theme of the seminar  is  ‘Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child’ and it will take place on 1st and 2nd June 2011. The opening address will be given by Professor Michael Freeman, Professor of English Law at University College London and Founding Editor of the International Journal on Children’s Rights. Guest speakers also include Professor David Archard, Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Lancaster; Dr Asher Ben-Arieh, from Hebrew University, Jerusalem, an international expert on social indicators; Dr Ursula Kilkelly, expert on children’s rights litigation and Director of the Child Law Clinic, University College Cork;  Gerison Lansdown, International Children’s Rights Consultant and a Forum visiting scholar in 2011; and Professor Audrey Osler, University of Leeds, a leading expert on children’s rights education.

For further information (including the call for abstracts) please click here to view the conference webpage.

  

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People

Dr Bronagh Byrne (Education)
Professor Paul Connolly (Education)
Professor Jannette Elwood (Education)
Aideen Gildea (Child Care)
Dr Ahmed Hawwa (Pharmacy)
Professor Colin Harvey (Law)
Deena Haydon (Sociology)
Francisca Idowu-Eberendu (Law)
Dr Karen Kerr (Education)
Dr Sylvie Langlaude (Law)
Dr Emma Larkin (Education)
Nuala Livingstone (Child Care)
Professor Laura Lundy (Education)
Professor James McElnay (Pharmacy)
Lesley McEvoy (Education)
Dr Bronagh McKee (Stranmillis)
Nicoli Morrison (Social Work)
Dr Liam O'Hare (Education)
Dr Karen Winter (Social Work)

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