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From: Gab George <gab.george212@gmail.com>
Subject: Children’s Rights International
To: gab_george@yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 10:42 AM
Dear Colleagues,
It is with great enthusiasm we the members of children right international ONG , California U.S.A invites Ngo´s groups, youths and youth-focused organizations to take an active role in our up coming program International Conference on Child Labor and Child Exploitation taking place in the California U.S and Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
We believe this is an incredible opportunity to network with like-minded association, Ngo organizations, individual in the promotion and development of pro-active youth involvement in our communities. I Hon George Gab .AO .RFD. QC Patron of Children’s Rights International been the member committees and board of directors in Child Right International organizing for the up coming event Child Labor and Child Exploitation in 2009 for youths Your e-mail address is been forwarded to us by the Youth Students Association in the Canada during our request via Youth association to volunteer's and invite youths from your continent.
We therefore ask all interested organization to forward the following information about their organization.
1)Name of your applicants
2) Country of Origin
3) Aims and objectives of the Organization
4) Organization profile
Direct your response to the secretary organizing committee to book your chances in this scheme through the below contact information. After a successful screening of applicants, their is no numerous number has been choosing from any organization it all depending on the youth decision and capability's. Interested applicants should forward their names and passport numbers to the below contact address or fax.
E-mail contact ////: secretary@worldsgifted2009.com <http://us.mc320.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=secretary@worldsgifted2009.com> or visit our web sites at www.worldgifted2009.org <http://www.worldgifted2009.org/>
further information about (wgtcc) conference, do Contact the secretary general of the committees with the above E-mail address all information and method of application will be disclose to you by the secretary general of WGTCC.
Thanks
Hon George Gab, AO, RFD, QC
Member organizing committee.
California U.S.A
Telefax +13094102541
Gab_george@yahoo.com <http://us.mc320.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Gab_george@yahoo.com>
 5th World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights
World Trade and Convention Centre,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada,
23 – 26 August 2009
Children Caught in Conflict
Welcome from the Congress Co Chairs
The erosion of human rights and deprivation of liberty in times of adversity is often excused under the
guise of necessity.
The maintenance and enforcement of human rights has a real cost in time, in money and in vigilance.
The present times of economic concern do not present an excuse for the deprivation of liberty any
more than they provide an excuse to be indifferent about the future of our world in any aspect, particularly
in sustaining its capacity to support humanity.
The future of this world can only be assured by the maintenance of rage against injustice and in a determination
to so act that future generations will take to heart the example of this generation providing
in its maintenance and support of the rights of the individual.
In no area is this more important than in the maintenance and support of the rights of children, rights
which if respected in children will enable them to recognise and respect the rights of others as they
become the future adults and leaders. The growth of such respect in turn, will lead to a better world,
hopefully one less torn by conflict and uncontained greed.
The 5th World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights brings into congress again judges, lawyers,
legislators, policy makers, mental health professionals and all those associated with the domestic
and international recognition of innate rights. They come together to share knowledge to develop
policy, to identify injustice and to seek solutions which are both achievable and lasting. The Congress
is an instrument of not only the mutual education of its participants but also an instrument of public
education and for shaping public opinion and action.
We offer you a warm invitation to join with us in this Congress to add your intellect, insight and your
voice to the rigour of the debate and to the search with us for solutions to the problems of children in a
world of conflict and increasing deprivation.
Take the opportunity to join in the formation of the resolutions of the Congress and leave, at its conclusion
knowing that you have participated in seeking to make the lives of children the better for it.
Congress Co-chairs
The Hon Justice Rod Burr AM
The Hon Justice Stuart Fowler AM
Click here for a copy of the Registation Brochure (PDF)
Click here for a copy of the Registation Form (PDF)
International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN)
XVIII ISPCAN International Congress "One World, One Family, Many Cultures”
ISPCAN and the Hawai‘i Local Organizing Committee are very honored to announce the XVIIIth ISPCAN International Congress which will be held on September 26th to 29th, 2010 in beautiful Honolulu, Hawai‘i, USA. The Local Organizing Committee consists of a consortium of over 20 Hawai‘i organizations and government departments that have implemented innovative programs to protect children and strengthen families for almost 40 years. ISPCAN, in collaboration with our Hawai‘i 2010 Local Organizing Committee, is excited about bringing the world together to become one family of many cultures, working together to build a better world for our children, our keiki.
Click here for the International Congress web site.
 50th session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Informational Notes on
Juvenile Justice related
issues
Defence for Children International
www.dci-is.org
February 2009
The Committee on the Rights of the Child is the UN body responsible for monitoring the implementation, by States Parties, of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as its two optional protocols, namely: the optional protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict and the optional protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
Every year, the Committee on the Rights of the Child holds three sessions in January, May-June and September.
States Parties are expected to submit reports to the Committee on the implementation of the Convention. The reporting cycle is as follows: 2 years after ratification, a State Party has to submit an initial report. After this initial report, additional reports are due every
five years.
After reviewing the reports submitted by States Parties, the members of the Committee on the Rights of the Child address their concerns and recommendations in the form of concluding observations.
The 50th session was held in Geneva from 12 to 30 January 2009. During the three-week session, the Committee on the Rights of the Child considered reports on how the Convention on the Rights of the Child is being implemented in each of the following States Parties: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Netherlands and Republic of Chad, Republic of Moldova. Under the optional protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, members of the Committee reviewed the reports of Maldives and Netherlands. Under the optional protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, the Committee on the Rights of the Child considered the reports of Maldives, Republic of Moldova and Tunisia.
As on previous occasions, the International Secretariat of Defence for Children International attended the session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child in order to follow the presentation of country reports from Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Netherlands and Republic of Chad, Republic of Moldova.
Defence for Children International is happy to present the following information notes on
issues concerning juvenile justice. These notes are intended to provide the reader with
relevant information on the state of juvenile justice in the countries under review, in a
concise manner.
Geneva, February 2009
Click here for a copy of the DCI report (PDF)
Trafficking in Unborn Children
By John Pascoe Chief Federal Magistrate AO
International Conference on Child Labour and Child Exploitation, Cairns Convention Centre, Queensland, 2008
John Pascoe, AO is Chief Federal Magistrate of Australia .
Click here for John Pascoe's paper (PDF)
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Match making industry, Shivakasi. India, © ILO, Photographer: Khemka A.
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International Conference on Child Labour and Child Exploitation
The International Conference on Child Labour and Child Exploitation was held on Sunday 3rd - Tuesday 5th August 2008, Cairns, Australia. The International Conference evaluated the progress and achievements made in relation to the eradication of the worst forms of child labour and will explore the challenges ahead in securing rights for children in the 21st century and meeting the UN Millennium Goals by 2015.
The Conference reflected on whether the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), as defined by the ILO in Forms of Child Labour Convention No.182 (C182) and its associated Recommendation (R190), address the right issues, in the light of 21st century concerns with nationalism, identity and globalisation, or whether new approaches to protecting children’s rights are needed. The Conference focussed on the role of the organizations representing employers and workers, non-government organisations as well as governments. The Conference engaged the corporate sector with a view to bringing a concrete reality to the much vaunted concept of responsible corporate citizenship. It highlighted steps taken by some companies and organisations operating internationally to address the worst forms of exploitation in their labour obligations and their attempts to try to set higher standards.
We had become increasingly concerned about the position of children in countries where economic boom conditions has created an enormous demand for labour and particularly cheap labour, which children can provide. These and many other issues were addressed at a highly successful conference.
Click here to go to the Conference web site
 International justice for children
Children's rights have gained greater global visibility through the almost universal ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Treaty bodies for other international and regional instruments, which cover the rights of "everyone", including children, are giving increasing attention to children's rights. In the same vein, human rights mechan¬isms, including regional ones such as the European Court of Human Rights, the European Committee of Social Rights and the Inter-American Commission and Court, have become more sensitive to children's rights. With this increasing visibility comes the recognition that children in every country of the world suffer widespread and often severe breaches of the full range of their rights - civil, political, economic, social and cultural. In many cases, children do not have adequate or realistic remedies for breaches of their rights at national level. Seeking remedy through inter¬national and regional human rights mechanisms, though on the increase, is not well-developed. International justice for children discusses the principles of child-friendly justice at international level and examines monitoring mechanisms and current systems of admissibility, determining how easy or difficult it is for children to gain access to them. This publication also identifies the obstacles to be overcome and proposes concrete ways to remove them through specific recommendations to governments, international organisations and monitoring bodies. This work is a solid contribution to making international justice acces¬sible, friendly and meaningful to children, thus ensuring that children's rights safeguarded by conventions are concrete and not just theoretical.
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 Monitoring Child Disability
in Developing Countries
Results from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys
UNICEF and the University of Wisconsin
With recent improvements in child survival in many countries, and the adoption and entering into force of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, disability is moving up on the international agenda. The development and inclusion of children with disabilities is a UNICEF priority. The World Fit for Children presents, among others, the UNICEF goal to “Ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, including equal access to health, education and recreational services, by children with disabilities and children with special needs, ensure the recognition of their dignity, promote their self-reliance, and facilitate their active participation in the community.”
Despite the global interest in child disability, relatively little is known about the situation of children with disabilities, particularly in developing countries. As a first step toward addressing this paucity of information, UNICEF recommended inclusion of a disability module, the Ten Questions screen for child disability, in its Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS). Twenty–six of the 50 countries that participated in the third round of MICS, administered in 2005–2008, included this optional Child Disability module. Results from 20 of these countries are reviewed in this report. MICS is one of the first surveys to use a single screen for disability across a wide range of countries. The results of this landmark survey have the potential to raise awareness about the number and situation of children with disabilities in developing countries.
Click here to go to the MICS report (PDF - note this is a large file and may take sometime to download)
 Kids abroad: ignore them, abuse them or protect them?
Lesson on how to protect children on the move from being exploited
By Mike Dottridge
Terres des Hommes
International Federation
This study focuses on the experience of young people who leave home and travel abroad to seek work or have a better life and also children who are sent away from home by their parents. It explorers initiatives which have had the effect of reducing the likelihood that such children will be subjected to economic or sexual exploitation.
The report sets out to go beyond identifying the vulnerable situtations faced by such children, by examining what techniques have proved helpful to children who move away from their families.
Click here to go to Mike Dottride's report (PDF)
Journal Issue No.6: Working Children - an Indian perspective
CRI Journal Issue 6 (2008)
Exploitative Child Labour, still a harsh reality
By Bill Jackson, Margaret Harrison, Sasha Trikojus and accredited sources
Both India and China are increasingly used by the west as sources of cheap manufactured goods, as emerging economic tiger states and, particularly in the case of China, as consumers of raw resources. However, the profits that flow from the export industries of both countries are heavily dependent on the supply of cheap labour. There is, however, a fear that the Indian and Chinese hunger for global success is increasing the chances of worker exploitation in those countries through competition to produce goods at ever-lower cost.
Click here for the full set of articles of Journal Issue No.6: Working Children - an Indian perspective
 Australia's Children: Does the Law Offer Them Sufficient Protection? The 21st Lionel Murphy Memorial Lecture, Parliament House, Sydney, Wednesday 28 November 2007
By The Honourable Alastair Nicholson AO, RFD, QC
Former Chief Justice, Family Court of Australia
Honorary Professorial fellow, University of Melbourne
I commence by paying my respects to and acknowledging the Gadigal clan of the Eora Nation and its elders, the traditional owners of the land that we stand and meet on today.
I am greatly honoured to be asked to give this lecture tonight, particularly given the distinguished nature of those who have preceded me as lecturers and the stature and reputation of the person that it honours.
Coming as I do from another State, I only met Lionel Murphy several times and appeared before him I think once as a junior in the High Court. They were fleeting meetings only, the first being when I was an ALP candidate in the 1972 election in a safe Liberal seat and therefore not of great political significance. My High Court appearance was equally insignificant, as my leader did all the talking.
However, anyone who was close to the Labor party of those days could not fail to have been affected by him and speaking for myself, I greatly admired him, both as an Opposition politician, Attorney- General and as a High Court Judge.
In each of those capacities he made a significant mark. To mention just a few of his achievements, as Opposition leader in the Senate he pioneered the system of committees in the Senate and made it a much more significant house of review than had hitherto been the case. He was also an integral member of the team that won government in 1972.
As Attorney-General he introduced the Family Law Act, which revolutionised family law in Australia, the Trade Practices Act and many other reforming statutes during that extraordinary period of reform that characterised the Whitlam government. He was also the driving force behind the introduction of Federal legal aid.
Click here for a copy of this paper (PDF Document)
 No Kids Without Education: We Can All Make a Difference!
Defence for Children International, through the Child Labour Desk and in coordination with the International Secretariat, is putting in place an International Campaign on Inclusive Education. This Campaign is one of the achievements of the three year programme that we implemented with the kind support of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In this first phase and in the frame of the above-mentioned programme, there were four sections involved: Cameroon, Togo, Ecuador and Paraguay. In this second phase we would like to invite you ALL to take part in the DCI Campaign on Inclusive Education, and to strengthen the voice of DCI as much as we can by working together.
For this campaign, inclusion means developing ways to enable schools to help all children to learn effectively and with the same opportunities. Inclusive education focuses on all students to ensure that those children who are traditionally excluded from educational opportunities have access to education and can stay in school. Examples of marginalized students are those with disabilities, children from different cultural backgrounds, child workers, and others. Inclusive schools celebrate diversity and learn from students’ differences, and this makes the learning environment more effective and enjoyable as a whole. The overarching goal of the Inclusive Education Campaign is to have States guarantee that 100% of school-aged, working children and adolescents effectively exercise their right to access and complete a quality education. Additionally, there are three specific goals that the Campaign hopes to achieve.
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The first is to ensure that all working children, particularly invisible child workers, are recognized and registered in improved State databases.
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The second objective involves the transformation of current education systems into inclusive ones, which focus on the prevention and detection of child labour, promoting flexible school schedules and using integrative educational models.
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Thirdly, the Campaign hopes for inclusive educational systems to be self-managed and sustainable. This will occur through improving teachers’ abilities to institutionalize inclusive education.
Click here for more information about the DCI Campaign
 The United Nations Secretary General’s Study on Violence Against Children
Report of the independent expert for the United Nations study on violence against children
This report, which is based on the in-depth study of Paulo Srgio Pinheiro, independent expert appointed by the Secretary-General pursuant to General-Assembly resolution 57/90 of 2002, provides a global picture of violence against children and proposes recommendations to prevent and respond to this issue. It provides information on the incidence of various types of violence against children within the family, schools, alternative care institutions and detention facilities, places where children work and communities. The Study is accompanied by a book which provides a more detailed account of the Study.
The Study was prepared through a participatory process which included regional, subregional and national consultations, expert thematic meetings and field visits. Many Governments also provided comprehensive responses to a questionnaire transmitted to them by the independent expert in 2004.
The independent expert is grateful for the broad support for his work provided by Governments, regional bodies and intergovernmental bodies, as well as from United Nations entities, civil society organizations and children.
Click here for The United Nations Secretary General’s Study on Violence Against Children,
Children’s Rights International Mission is:
 a. To promote, protect and advance across the world, the human rights of children and without limiting that aim, in particular to promote the meaningful implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (“the Convention”).
b. By bringing together eminent judges, lawyers, psychologists, medical practitioners, mediators, counsellors, mental health workers, media representatives, child carers, teachers & allied professionals to contribute their specialised expertise in a practical manner through education, legal and other advocacy to, promote, protect and advance the interests of children.
c. To monitor and encourage the application of the principles of the Convention by relevant laws, policies, treaties, judicial decision-making, legal practice, and by service-delivery, immigration and law enforcement agencies
d. To train and assist relevant persons in children’s rights advovacy and in the promotion, protection and advancement of those rights at a regional level.
e .To defend where possible pro bono the right of children in particular instances where they might otherwise go unrepresented or where the action may set standards that will protect other children’s rights and promote legal reform .
And to do all as may be necessary to achieve these objects or objects that may present themselves at a future time pertaining to the rights of children by establishing a truly international organisation with regional reporting networks.
Welcome from the Hon. Alastair Nicholson AO RFD QC.
Founding Patron of the Children’s Rights International.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely ratified treaty in human history. Despite the good will of the signatory nations the sad truth is that the basic rights of children are still not universally recognised and children suffer violence, abuse, exploitation and discrimination in increasing numbers every day.
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