University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre Summer School on the Rights of the Child - 23 – 27 June, Nottingham
The Summer School faculty are all highly experienced international experts on child rights with backgrounds in advocacy, research and practice, offering a dynamic programme covering a range of related topics. This year’s programme includes sessions focussed on the sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children, advancing children’s rights through the UN, children’s economic and social rights, participatory methodologies in advocacy and research, children in conflict, children and gender, refugee children, regional protection of children’s rights, and access to justice.
Members of the Summer School faculty for 2014 include:
- Professor Michael Freeman, Emeritus Professor of Law, University College London and Editor of International Journal of Children's Rights;
- Professor Matthew Happold, Professor in International Public Law, University of Luxembourg;
- Professor Ursula Kilkelly, Head of the Department of Law and Director of the Child Law Clinic, University College Cork;
- Professor Laura Lundy, Director of the Children's Rights Centre, Queen's University, Belfast;
- Dr Benyam Dawit Mezmur, Chairperson of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child of the African Union, and member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child;
- Ms Lisa Myers, Director of Child Rights Connect (formerly the NGO Group for the CRC) Geneva
- Dr Najat Maalla M'jid, Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography;
- Dr Liam Thornton, Lecturer in Law, University College Dublin;
- Dr Simon Flacks, Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)/School of Law, Reading University;
- Dr Ralph Sandland, Associate Professor, University of Nottingham.
Course Fee: £1,000. For participants who do not require accommodation, the course fee is £750.
Deadline: 1 June 2014
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