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Official launch of the World Appeal for Childhood
International Conference Centre, Geneva, June 4th 2009
The World Appeal to a new mobilization for childhood was launched officially on June 4th, 2009 in Geneva, in presence of Marguerite Barankitse, Patron of the Appeal, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize, as well as experts, personalities, States representatives, international organizations, civil society...
Programme of June 4, 2009
Opening session: The rights of the child: a global issue - How has the Convention on the Rights of the Child changed our view on childhood?
Interventions
- Mr. Adolfo PEREZ ESQUIVEL, Nobel Peace Prize, Director, Peace and Justice Service, Argentina
- Mrs. Tith DAVY, Director, Operation Children of Cambodia, Cambodia
- Mr. Nodari HANANASHVILI, Deputy General Director, Enlightment Fund, Russian Federation
- Mrs. Marie-Thérèse MULANGA, President, National Association of Social Educators, Member of Bice Governing Board, Democratic Republic of the Congo
First round table: Forms of violence against children - Which perspectives to restore their rights and their dignity?
Chairperson: Mrs. Claire BRISSET, Former Child Defender, France, expert for the International Organization of la Francophonie on the rights of the child, Ombudsman of the City of Paris
Interventions
- Mrs. Sylvie MANSOUR, Technical Assistant in mental health to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Palestine, Physical and psychological traumas of children involved in armed conflicts
- Mr. Désiré KOUKOUI, Director, Bice-Côte d'Ivoire projects and programs, Ivory Coast, Economic and sexual exploitation in child trafficking
- Mr. Patrice MEYER-BISCH, Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Ethics and Human Rights and of the UNESCO Chair for Human Rights and Democracy, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Cultural filiation, first resource of peace
Launch of the World Appeal to a new mobilization for Childhood
Chairperson: Mr. Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize
Official Launch of the Appeal: Mrs. Marguerite BARANKITSE, Patron of the Appeal, President, Maison Shalom, Burundi introduces the Appeal accompanied by:
- Mrs. Adriana BORDARAMPE, Commission of Lay Apostolate and of Family Pastoral, Argentina
- Mr. Dominic Xavier LOURDUNATHAL, President, Reaching the Unreached Trust, India
- Mr. Ernest MILLER, Director of Education and Formation, Lassalian Mission, United States
- Mrs. Monique SCHERRER, Editor in chief, Bayard Presse, France
Second round table: The right to education: a guarantee for the integral development of the child
Interventions
- Mrs. Elvira NICORA, President, Fundación Emmanuel, Argentina, The family, the first educator of the child
- Mr. Ernest MILLER, Director of Education and Formation, Lassalian Mission, United States, Right to education and freedom of teaching
- Mr. Alejandro CUSSIANOVITCH, IFEJANT, Peru, Child labour against the right to education?
- Prof. Emmanuel DECAUX, Professor of International Public Law, University Panthéon Assas, Paris II and Member of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, France, Right to education and human rights education: the role of the United Nations
- Prof. Jean-Bernard MARIE, Research Director at the CNRS, University of Strasbourg, France, The right to education: common targets and cultural diversity
