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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
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