With this Seminar, we aim to take further steps forward in both theoretically reflecting on children’s rights and implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in specific policy contexts.
Lia Karsten President of the Child in the City Scientific Programme Committee.
With this Seminar, we aim to take further steps forward in both theoretically reflecting on children’s rights and implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in specific policy contexts.
Lia Karsten President of the Child in the City Scientific Programme Committee.
How to make children’s rights mainstream in local policy planning?
Local governments all over the world want their cities and towns to become a child-friendly place based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989).
Children’s rights have since been referenced in many different local policy documents and progress has been made, but many cities still struggle with the translation and implementation of children’s rights. This seminar aims to take further steps forward in both theoretically reflecting on children’s rights and implementing the convention in specific policy contexts.
In doing so, it is our starting point that children and young people themselves are the first to be engaged in the development of policies and practices that positively support them as they grow up and develop.
During this seminar speakers will share with us their experiences on how to professionalize and mainstream children’s rights. What challenges do they face, what problems have they struggled with and how do they engage young people in the process? These are particularly important questions to be answered during these times of corona.
How can we continue to work with a focus on child-friendliness when children’s rights are completely ignored when referring to the safety of everyone? Children In several countries have experienced being locked up for several weeks to prevent the spread of the virus. Couldn’t we have better discussed the alternatives with the children themselves? To answer these and other questions we want to focus on five specific domains:
Lia Karsten, President Scientific Program Committee, Child in the City Foundation
Ana Rodrigues Almada, Head of Division for the Promotion of Rights in the Territory, Cascais
