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Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina), 6 – 8 September 2006 2006 FICE congress: Building a Positive Future Despite a Childhood of Hardships During the conference will discuss the means and strategies needed to help educators support teenagers' efforts to develop in a positive way and to build themselves a promising future. Together with professionals from all over the world, we will write a declaration – for its demands to be implemented, FICE will get involved on both the national and international levels. The aim of the declaration is to help implement the UN Convention for children's rights – as the convention falls into our congress' theme – and to give an orientation as to the future actions of FICE and other member associations. FICE is also inviting 50 young people between the ages of 13 and 18 to actively contribute at a high level international congress. Through the “Youth Programme” FICE gives the young people a real chance to express their opinion, to be heard, and to take part in decisions and debates which affect their future. Congress office: Fore more information: York (UK), 03 September 2006 – 06 September 2006 Children in a Changing World: Getting It Right, XVIth ISPCAN International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect Palencia (Spain), 19th - 20th June 2006 III Intergovernmental Conference on Children in Europe and Central Asia. Vienna (Austria), 19– 20 june 2006 Young and Old in a Changing Europe. The Demographic Challenge to Social Care and Health. The Vienna is conference organised annually by the European Social Network and draws on European best practice, looking at the latest outcomes of research and project development. The European Social Network is a forum of national associations of directors of social services and associates With over 30 multi-lingual plenary and workshop presentations, the conference provides a unique opportunity to understand the changes taking place and to exchange ideas and experiences between those responsible for developing policy and practice from across Europe This annual conference offers strategic and practical learning and networking opportunities for all those responsible for planning and implementing services: planners, politicians, managers and professionals. It is for all those with an interest in the future of health and social care services including, for example, elderly care, disability, children, youth and family and mental health services. Conference timetable:
The complete programme will be available on this website at a later stage. Conference delegates will enjoy two prestigious evening events: a formal welcome reception hosted by the Mayor of Vienna at the splendid City Hall (the 'Rathaus') on Monday 19 June and a floating Gala Dinner - as we cruise up the River Danube aboard the MS Admiral Tegethoff (pictured to right) - on Tuesday 20 June Terms and Conditions:
Roskild (Denmark), 16 – 17 june 2006 Children's Welfare in Ageing Europe: Challenges and Opportunities The Committee of Senior Officials for Scientific and Technical Research (COST) Action 19 was established in June 2001 and has run until June 2005. The action seeks to understand children's welfare in ageing societies. Three areas of welfare will be highlighted:Children's economic and social welfare (Working group 1); Children's access to space and use of time (Working group 2); and Children's rights and discourses (Working group 3). The Action will seek to understand the interplay of material, social and institutional forces through emphasising theoretical and methodological approaches to children's welfare. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers in the field of childhood studies to discuss and debate the outcome of the COST A19 in the context of other relevant research in the field. The conference includes plenary presentations of the main perspectives and results of COST A19 including An-Magritt Jensen (chair), Helmut Wintersberger, Helga Zeiher and Jens Qvortrup. Applicants are advised to visit the COST A19 homepage for information on perspectives and issues Abstracts must be submitted by e-mail no later than 24 February 2006 to COST A19 Action Secretary Karin Ekberg (Karin.Ekberg@svt.ntnu.no). For more information on COST, please visit the COST website http://cost.cordis.lu Bratislava (Slovak Republic), 4 -7 June 2006 CHILDREN WITHOUT PARENTAL CARE: Foster Care in Eastern Europe Gand (Belgium), 18-19 May 2006 International Interdisciplinary Conference on Children's Rights - Interuniversity Attraction Poles - Research Network on Human Rights of Children. The Belgian IAP interdisciplinary research network on children's rights will organize an International Interdisciplinary Conference on Children's Rights. The conference aims at evaluating the progress and achievements the Convention on the Rights of the Child brought about, and at exploring the challenges in realising children's rights. It will in particular do so by creating an open forum where academics can meet and exchange views with other professionals, dealing with children's rights in a more practical way. Major topics of the conference include: (1) enforcement of the UNCRC at international, regional and domestic level, (2) the right to (human rights) education, (3) rights of children in especially difficult circumstances such as refugee children and children belonging to minorities, (4) juvenile justice and detention, (5) participation rights of children, (6) children's right to life, health and health care, (7) children's rights in relation to their family, and (8) exploitation of children. For more information contact: Strasbourg (France), 11 – 13 may 2006 DIVERSITY – HUMAN RIGHTS – PARTICIPATION The Council of Europe will, with the support of the European Union, organise a 2006 campaign based upon the slogan "All Different - All Equal", successfully used by the European Youth Campaign against racism, xenophobia, antisemitism and intolerance run by the Council of Europe in 1995. The seminar will focus on the three thematic pillars proposed for the Campaign such as: diversity, human rights and participation. In order to support the Campaign and to make an effective scientific contribution, the seminar will critically assess the meaning of each of these three concepts, analytically analyse the conceptual baggage behind terms such as 'diversity' and 'human rights', constructively evaluate the critical implementation of these concepts in practice and facilitate a discussion of how a more egalitarian participation can be increased through evidence-based examples of good practices. The aim is to enable the establishment of an information-database of quality research on the issues that may be used in the running of the "All Different - All Equal" Campaign. An on-line forum will be started in which both participants and others can discuss the seminar issues in advance and which will continue after the end of the seminar. Those interested in participating in this seminar should send the following documentation to the address below by 10 March, 2006: The organisers of the research seminar reserve the right to select papers for presentation. For more information: Athens (Greece), 05–06 May 2006 International Conference on challenges for Fostering and Aftercare Hamburg (Germany), 31 March – 01 April 2006 Conference : “Different kinds of risks resulting from various structures and changes in the labour markets” The purpose of the project is to set up and operate a network to improve our knowledge of the impact of changing family forms, the working conditions of parents, and social policy and legislative measures on the well-being of children and their families. Its goal is to bring into focus, co-ordinate, publicise the results of a research that has already been carried out through the organisation of international workshops and conferences. Debates will hinge on the extent to which marital instability and other processes of family transformation, in contemporary Europe and in the context of different institutional and policy arrangements, can affect the welfare of children and lead to divergences in outcomes. The main subjects of the conference include labour markets and the development and patterns of child poverty and the growing up of children in changing labour markets of their parents.
Berlin (Germany), 10 March 2006 SEXUAL EXPLOITATION IN TOURISM -18th Meeting of the Task Force to Protect Children from Sexual Exploitation in Tourism The thematic session will be followed by a reporting session, open to national tourism administrations (NTAs), tourism industry, NGO and media representatives who wish to report on current actions to prevent SECT and exchange experiences on ways to combat this practice. Moreover, there are two upcoming vacancies on the Executive Committee of the Task Force: one vacant seat reserved for the tourism industry, and the other an "open" seat (originally reserved for the media). The two new Board Members will be elected during the next Task Force meeting of 10 March. Representatives from the industry, media or any other field related to child protection, sustainable development or responsible tourism interested in joining the Executive Committee are invited to apply by 3 March 2006. For more information, contact: Task Force Secretariat World Tourism Organisation (WTO) Fax: + (34) 91 567 8219 Email: ethics@world-tourism.org Arnhem (The Netherlands), 09-10 March 2006 International Conference on Early Childhood Education Achieving these objectives Brussels (Belgium), 21 February 2006 Promoting Inclusion for Unaccompanied Young Asylum Seekers and Immigrants -
a duty of justice and care' You are warmly invited to join this special lunch-time meeting between 13.45 and 14.45 which will be held in English and French. Refreshments will be provided. Complimentary copies of the report will be available in English, German, French, Italian, Hungarian and Romanian. Please contact ESN as soon as possible if you would like to attend to ensure security clearance . Those without access passes to the European Parliament must reply by Friday 10th February, sending their name, date of birth and email address.For more information and contact: Email: kerstin.calderonvera@socialeurope.com Rome (Italy), 16-17 February 2006 Joint Forum organised by the European Foundation for Street Children Worldwide and the Representation of the European Commission in Italy The conference will be a forum for critical discourse on all aspects of the consequences of migration for children at risk in these countries and on current issues relating to this phenomenon. Furthermore, it aims at the improvement of communication between the different national and European levels of policy making, governance and social intervention as well as early prevention methods. Finally, it will contribute to the creation of permanent networking links between these different levels in order to ensure a better co-ordinated and sustainable joint action, such as, in the field of unaccompanied migrant children, the fight against child trafficking and exploitation as well as the reintegration of ethnic minorities. We expect participants representing, among others, the European Union (Commission and Parliament), international organizations (such as the Council of Europe and UNICEF) as well as local and national authorities, researchers, European NGOs, academics, businesses, the media and social NGOs running projects in the Southern European countries such as Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal and Spain . Naturally, the specific Italian situation will be particularly considered in the overall discussion. For the registration at the Forum For more information and contact: Geneva (Switzerland), 9-27 January 2006 41st SESSION INFORMATION: Agenda and Timetable
For more informationon the Committee, contact: Brussels, 14 November 2005 EUROPE: Position of Socially Excluded Children in the EU Policy Process. Eurochild AISBL is an international network of organisations and
individuals working in and across Europe to improve the quality of life
of children and young people. It has organised a conference on "The Position of Socially
Excluded Children in the EU Policy Process" . Simultaneous translation into and from English and French will be available. For more information contact: London, 14 November 2005 SEXUAL TOURISM: 17th Meeting of the Task Force [consultative meeting]. The Task Force to Protect Children from Sexual Exploitation in Tourism,
is holding its 17th consultative meeting in London on 14 November 2005
(2:30 - 5:30 pm), in connection with this year's edition of the World For more information contact: Brussels, 9-10 November 2005 Future Europeans, The right start in life for children and young people in Europe. A major international conference on the health and well-being of children and young people in Europe will be organised in Brussels, in the Committee of the Regions and ECOSOC building, rue Belliard 101. The event will bring together 200 local and regional authorities, practitioners, NGOs and policy-makers from across Europe. For more information contact : Paris X Nanterre, 21-24 September 2005 Xth ISPCAN European Regional Conference. This event has been organised in occasion of the 9th International Meeting of the European Scientific Association for Residential and Foster Care of Children and Adolescents (EUSARF). EUSARF is a body of scientists voluntarily banded together and concerned with the advancement of knowledge in the field of residential care, foster care and their alternatives for children and youth with psycho-social problems, included young addicts. Its main objective is to promote and develop empirical research in the field of residential and foster care and treatment for children and youth within Europe, thus contributing to the interchange of information relating to this subject between the European members and other associations. Acknowledging the social difficulties faced by young people, the congress aims to mobilise the international scientific community about the socio-educational supports that should be given to parents, to young people in difficulty that – sometimes – are also problematic people due to the fact that they live in a difficult, uncertain environment. For more information and to get the programme: Berlin (Germany), 11-14 September 2005 Xth ISPCAN European Regional Conference. The Xth ISPCAN European Regional Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, will take place on 11-14 September 2005 in Berlin, Germany. The conference will be organised by the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) and the German Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (GESPCAN). The theme chosen for the conference is, "New Developments in Science and Practice: Influences on Child Protection." Up-to-date information on innovative research and practice will help professionals from all over Europe to better understand and more effectively address many challenging facets of the complex problem of child abuse and neglect in modern society. Amongst others, the following main topics will be discussed: Child Protection Systems in Europe, Neuro-Biological Effects of Child Maltreatment, Young Children in Institutional Care in Europe, Primary Prevention and Community Intervention, and Abuser and Abused. The Scientific Committee invites Conference delegates to submit abstracts for consideration. The conference will be open to professionals from all disciplines involved in child abuse and neglect work, including psychologists, social workers, physicians, educators, legislators and law enforcement officers. For more information, contact: London (UK), 5-16 September 2005 Child to Child Approaches: Course for Facilitators [event] This is the first year that the Child-to-Child Trust will be conducting a course to introduce and develop training and planning skills in the Child-to-Child approach. The Course Director is Rachel Carnegie, an experienced Child-to-Child trainer and adviser who has worked with the approach all over the world. The aim of the course is to enable course participants to strengthen their facilitation, training and planning skills for children's participation in health and development based on Child-to-Child approaches. The course is designed for people with a background in health promotion, education or development who wish to strengthen their facilitation, training and planning skills for children's participation in health and development based on Child-to-Child approaches. The course will be intensive, creative and participatory, utilising a range of facilitation methods. It will consist of interactive group sessions. Participants will be expected to attend the course full-time between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. which will include scheduled periods for individual and group tasks. Application deadline: 30 June 2005For more information, contact: Oslo (Norway), 29 June- 3 July 2005 Childhoods 2005 – Children and Youth in Emerging and Transforming Societies. This global conference addressing modern childhood and youth is organised by the University of Oslo, the Norwegian Social Research (NOVA) and the Childwatch International Research Network (CWI). The title of the conference refers to a world where new ethnic encounters, social change and globalisation creates new childhoods and new lives for young people. More than ever children and young people today live in societies marked by social and cultural change. The purpose of such an event is to see modern childhood and youth in a global perspective and provide an opportunity to present and learn from child research in various countries and regions. The international focus is crucial in a world where local and global issues are intertwined. Agenda: http://childhoods2005.uio.no Brussels (Belgium), 23-24 June 2005 Criminal prevention seminar Crime prevention for excluded children and youth in Europe: innovative
methods and intervention strategies [seminar] The European Foundation for Street
Children Worldwide (EFSCW) is organising
a seminar on "Crime prevention for excluded children and youth in Europe:
innovative methods and intervention strategies" on 23 and 24 June 2005. For more information, contact: Vienna (Austria), 3-6 June 2005 Differing Needs: Societies' Responses to Children, Parents, Families and the Older Generations The International Commission on Couple and Family Relations (ICCFR) invites those involved in couple/family counselling and therapy, family organisations, research, social policy, legislation and legal processes, relationship education and welfare service provision to participate in this conference. The impact of changes to legislation designed to benefit couples and families around the world will be explored in keynote presentations of this conference, which will examine the idea of "solidarity", review different social systems and draw attention to the influences of new social provisions on the lives of children and adults living in widely different social settings. Organisation: Gmunden (Austria), 1-2 June 2005 Brussels (Belgium), 20 - 21 May 2005 Brussels (Belgium), 19 - 20 May 2005 24-29 April 2005 2005 Global Action Week for Education Education International (EI) and its partners in the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) will be organising the 6th Global Action Week from 24 to 30 April 2005, on the theme of "Educate to End Poverty". This year's Global Week of Action is of special importance as it coincides with the un-achievement of the first Millennium Development Goal on gender parity in primary education, by 2005. Without the achievement of this first education goal, it will be extremely difficult to achieve Education for All by 2015. The Global Action Week is one of several events organised by the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) with the intention of mobilising public opinion to exert pressure on governments and intergovernmental agencies to provide free, quality Education For All. For more information, contact: Brussels (Belgium), 6 April 2005 Care Work in Europe Current understandings and future directions The Institute of Education – University of London - organized the dissemination seminar “Care Work in Europe” to be held on 6th April 2005 in Brussels. For more information, contact: The Hague (The Netherlands), 17 to 18 March 2005 International Criminal Accountability and the Rights of Children For more information, contact: Janna van der Meulen, Institute of Social Studies PO Box 29776, 2502 LT The Hague, The Netherlands Tel: + 31 (0)70 4260618; Fax: + 31 (0)70 4260759 Email: hac@iss.nl Website: http://www.iss.nl 12 december 2004 Children and the Media: International Children's Day of Broadcasting . International Children's Day of Broadcasting (ICDB), celebrated on the second Sunday of every December, is a day when broadcasters around the world "Tune into Kids". They air quality programming for and about children. In addiction, most of all allow children to be part of the programming process, to talk about their hopes and dreams and share information with their peers. For more information, contact: Sion (Switzerland), Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch (IUKB), 19-23 November 2004 Child trafficking: a fatality? From field reality to better practices. This seminar aims to link theory and practice in the field of child trafficking. It gives an opportunity for different actors (including NGOs, jurists, state authorities, field workers etc.) to come together and exchange experiences, working towards increasing international action. The seminar is organised by the Institut International des Droits de l'Enfants (IDE) in partnership with Fondation Terre des Hommes (www.tdh.ch), which launched the international campaign “Stop Child Trafficking” in October 2001.
Agenda: http://ww.childsrights.org/site_fr/index.php?content=seminaires/sem-2004-10.php Geneva ( Switzerland), 19 November 2004 World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse 2004 [annual event]This event is organised by the Women's World Summit Foundation (WWSF). It was first launched in 2000, to be commemorated every 19 November in synergy with the anniversary of the International Day for the Rights of the Child (20 November). Child abuse (especially sexual abuse), in fact, is a universal and alarming problem and increased attention and efficient protection skills and prevention measures are necessary at family, local, national and international level. After a long tradition of silence, sexual child abuse is being more and more denounced and is becoming a public and political topic. Link: http://www.woman.ch/children/1-introduction.asp#whycoalition Osnabrück (Germany), 2-4 November 2004 Stop Child Trafficking, conference organised by Terre des Hommes Germany and City of Osnabrück. The conference rounds off the activities of the international Terre des Hommes campaign against Child Trafficking. On the basis of the experience gained till date, representatives from politics, authorities, institutions, media and project work will discuss the present status of the problem, and will collectively draft restrictive measures to further curtail commercial exploitation of children. Workshops, lectures and discussions that are also open to the public at large will highlight the background and methods used in child trafficking. Legal and political issues in the fight against this crime, which knows no geographical boundary; are also on the agenda of the conference. The goal is an action-oriented dialogue between national and international specialists. This will also serve as a forum for knowledge exchange and further development in the existing activities. The conference should close with a common final document that includes recommendation to make the fight against child trafficking more effective. Ahead of this conference, a cultural program to be organized in co-operation with the city of Osnabrück will aim to publicize the theme of child trafficking to a wider audience using different instruments. Agenda: http://www.stopchildtrafficking.org/site/Conferences.180.0.html Sion (Switzerland), Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch (IUKB), 28-30 October 2004 La médiation familiale in Europe: état des lieux et perspectives. Today family mediation is diffused in the majority of countries and it is recognised as being an alternative method to solve private conflicts. While it emerged as an informal and empirical practice, it has now acquired a formal recognition in various countries. This symposium aims:
Presentations and exchanges during the event will be organised as plenary sessions, debates, workshops or round tables. Agenda:http://www.iukb.ch/english/CFCE/simp04_fr.pdf Salamanca (Spain), 27-29 October 2004 Juvenile Justice and the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency in a Globalised World - International Conference. This international Conference is a preparatory one in view of The Second World-wide Congress on The Rights of Childhood and Adolescence , which will be held in Peru in November 2005. It is organised by the International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO). The IJJO is a virtual service, conceived as a comprehensive interdisciplinary system for informing, communicating, debating, analysing and making proposals for the different areas that affect the development of Juvenile Justice all over the world. Agenda:http://www.oijj.org/plantilla.php?pag=090000&idioma=en Brussels, 26 October 2004 Workshop on Trafficking in Human Beings, under the auspices of the EU Forum on the prevention of organised crimeIn November 2000, the European Commission tabled a policy communication on crime prevention which presented some orientations and proposals for further action. The EU Forum on Organised Crime Prevention was foreseen in the above-mentioned Commission Communication on crime prevention. The Forum aims to bring together a wide range of interested stakeholders, such as national law-enforcement authorities, business and professional groups, academic researchers, non-governmental organisations and civil society as a whole to discuss new approaches in preventing organised crime, in an illustration of partnership at European level. The October Workshop will concentrate on the discussion of the Draft report of the Experts Group on Trafficking in Human Beings. This consultative group was set up by a Commission Decision of 25 March 2003 (OJ L79, 26.3.2003, p.25). Its mandate is to assist and support the Commission in the elaboration of further concrete proposals at European level, in particular a communication on trafficking in human being that will probably be issued in 2005. Agenda: http://europa.eu.int/comm/justice_home/fsj/crime/forum/docs/26102004_agenda_en.pdf London (United Kingdom) Child in the City Conference, 20 to 22 October 2004 The purpose of this international conference is to bring together The conference will seek to identify guiding principles and practice for the realisation Agenda: http://www.europoint-bv.com/child2004 Brussels (Belgium), 29 September 2004 Combating Child Poverty in Europe - Making it a Reality. The conference is organised by the not for profit organization EUROCHILD -
Promoting the welfare and rights of children and young people.
Agenda: Brussels_261004.pdf Amsterdam (Netherlands), 30 September to 02 October 2004 Gender Borders – International Conference on Women and Immigration Law in Europe. Organised by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs, the purpose of this conference is to analyse and evaluate immigration law in Europe from a gender perspective, keeping in mind the idea that women are involved in immigration in specific ways and that the rules regulating immigration have specific implications for them. The conference aims to enhance the status of migrant women by analysing which aspects of immigration law are currently of importance for women on the national level, what can they expect from the ongoing Agenda: http://www.rechten.vu.nl/urlsearchresults.asp?itemnumber=2679 Barcelona (Spain), 2 – 5 September 2004 Human Movements and Immigration (HMI) – World Congress Human Movements and Immigration. The Human Movements and Immigration (HMI) World Congress is an opportunity to better understand the new reality with its own complexity and diversity by seeking to offer new and realistic ideas for future debates and the actions of policy makers. Agenda: http://www.mhicongress.org/programa.pdf Strasbourg (France), 24 June 2004 The situation of separated minors in Europe The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has invited the Commissioner for Human Rights “to conduct an investigation on the situation of separated children in Council of Europe member states”, on the base of the Recommendation 1596(2003) concerning the situation of young migrants in Europe. With the aim of fulfilling the Assembly's request, the Commissioner has decided to organise a seminar in order to discuss two essential topics regarding the situation of children: the status of unaccompanied minors in the European asylum policies and the fight against child trafficking. Moreover, the seminar will gather representatives of NGOs, of International Organisations, experts of the Council of Europe and members of the Parliamentary Assembly, with the aim to collect diverse experiences in order to give a picture as accurate as possible of the unaccompanied minors' situation. Geneva (Switzerland), 9 – 11 June 2004 International Dialogue on Migration – Seminar on Health and Migration International Conference Center Geneva (CICG) Switzerland. The Seminar organised and hold by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and co-sponsored by the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will bring together health and migration officials and practitioners for an exchange of views on health and migration policy concerns, with a particular focus on the public health implications of increasingly mobile populations. The overall goals of the Seminar are to build capacity and to enhance understanding of the complex relationship between health and population mobility by providing a forum where policy makers,practitioners and other stakeholders from governments, intergovernmental agencies and nongovernmental organisations will have the opportunity to exchange and discuss information, perspectives and experiences. Sarajevo ( Bosnia and Herzegovina) ,13 – 15 May 2004 Second Intergovernmental Conference on Making Europe and Central Asia Fit for Children, The Conference is a follow up to the First Intergovernmental Conference on Children in Europe and Central Asia, held in Berlin in 2001 and to the United Nations General Assembly's Special Session on Children, held in New York in 2002. The overall objective of the Conference is to reaffirm political commitment at national level to promote the respect and protection of children's rights through the integration of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and of A World Fit for Children into multi-sectoral policy and legislative frameworks. In particular it aims to share and discuss innovative approaches to critical issues affecting children's rights, such as increasing budgetary allocation and investing in children, protection of children moving across borders, ending violence against children, tackling social exclusion in education and making cities suitable for children.
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