June 4th 2009, official launch of the Appeal

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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...

 

 

1:00 PM Press conference with:

Mrs Maggy Barankitse, Human rights defender, President of Maison Shalom, Burundi

Mr Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Peace Nobel Prize, Argentina

Mrs Irada Parajuli Gautam, President ONG Aawaaj, Nepal

Brother Ernest Miller, Director of Education and Formation, Lassalian Mission, United States

Mr Yves Marie-Lanoë, President of Bice, France

 

8:30 PM >> Conference of Mrs Marguerite Barankitse, Patron of the Appeal (listen)

 

 

 

Introduction
- Address of Mr. Yves MARIE-LANOË, President of Bice
- Address of Mr. Manuel TORNARE, Mayor of Geneva
- Address of Mgr. Silvano TOMASI, Apostolic Nuncio, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations

 

Chairperson: Mrs Dominique GOUMARD- DEMBINSKI, Editor, International Geneva Yearbook

- 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

 

Comments of the Rapporteur: Mr. Norberto LIWSKI, former Vice-President of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

 

 

 

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

- 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

     • The Appeal: Which impact on the institutional work and on the field?

- Mr. Jean ZERMATTEN, Member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Switzerland
- Dr. Najat M'JID, UN Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, Morocco- Mrs. Irada PARAJULI GAUTAM, President, Aawaj, Nepal

     • The Appeal: the beginning of a process

- Mr. Clodoveo PIAZZA, Responsible of the programs to combat poverty in Mozambique, Society of Jesus, Member of Bice Governing Board

 

 

- 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