Find below the videos from the conference Facilitating Child Participation in Child Protection, that took place in Toronto on October 5th and 6th 2015. 

The full agenda is available here: CPICP Program – October 5-6 2015

Definition of participation – Armchair discussion (20 min.)

• Susan Bissell, Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children
• Landon Pearson, Landon Pearson Resource Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children’s Rights

https://ryecast.ryerson.ca/84/Watch/9592.aspx

Definition of participation – Short presentations

• Laura Wright, Right to Play (5 min.)
• Ivette Fonseca, Plan Canada (5 min.)
• Thaila Dixon-Eeet, Project C (5 min.)
• Fred Hareau, Equitas (5 min.)
• Linda Dale, Children/Youth as Peacebuilders (5 min.)

https://ryecast.ryerson.ca/84/Watch/9518.aspx

Ethical tensions – Panel presentations

• Olivia Lecoufle, Save the Children Canada (10 min.)
• Gillian Mann, Child Frontiers (10 min.)
• William Myers, University of California at Davis (10 min.)
• Kavita Ratna, Concerned for Working Children, India (10 min.)

https://ryecast.ryerson.ca/84/Watch/9517.aspx

Legal tensions – Panel presentations

• Ben Elgaza, Youth
• Kay Tisdall, University of Edinburgh
• Lucy Jamieson, Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town
• Irene Rizzini, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
• Richard Carothers, Partners in Technology Exchange & Dena Aufseeser, University of Maryland

https://ryecast.ryerson.ca/84/Watch/9516.aspx

Summary of Day One from conference participants & Practical Tensions – Presentations

• Jason Hart, University of Bath (10 min.)
• Gerison Lansdown, International children’s rights advocate (10 min.)
• Anna Amy Ho, Former Crown Ward, Crisis Counsellor at Victim Services Toronto, Public Speaker, and Dancer/Aerialist (10 min.)

https://ryecast.ryerson.ca/84/Watch/9584.aspx

Monitoring and Evaluation – Training Session (2 hrs.)

• Gerison Lansdown, International children’s rights advocate

https://ryecast.ryerson.ca/84/Watch/9563.aspx

Crucial tensions and future directions: Reviewing the conference themes and outcomes (15 min.)

• Jo Boyden, University of Oxford

https://ryecast.ryerson.ca/84/Watch/9562.aspx

Here you will find all the videos, presentations and the papers that were submitted and discussed during the International conference – Child participation and child protection conference organized by Ryerson University and ICPNC in October 2015.

The full programme is accessible here: CPICP Program – October 5-6 2015

The bios of the presenters are here: CPICP Presenter Bios

The Conference Summary is accessible here: CPICP Conference Summary

The Executive Summary is accessible here: CPICP Conference Executive Summary

Videos: Click here to see the videos from the conference

Submitted papers

Sonja Grover, Ph.D., Lakehead University – Advocating for Children of Haitian Descent Born in the Dominican Republic to Undocumented Parents and Denied Dominican Birthright Nationality/Citizenship

Contents
Part I: Backgrounder on the Situation in the Dominican Republic Relating to the Illustrative OP3-CRC fictional case (Case brought under the third optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure)

Part II: UNICEF DR (on Behalf of a Group of second generation children of Haitian Descent Denied Dominican Nationality and Born in the DR in La Romana District to undocumented Dominican parents and at risk of forced deportation) v the Dominican Republic (An Illustrative Fictional OP3-CRC case brought by UNICEF)

Part III: An Advocacy Action Plan for Child Rights Defenders Regarding Children’s International Protection Needs and Birthright Nationality/Citizenship

Part IV: North American update: Donald Trump proposal for retroactive de-nationalization and denial of U.S. nationality for U.S. child citizens, mostly of Mexican descent, who currently have recognized birthright U.S. citizenship having been born in the U.S. to undocumented parents

Download presentation here

William Myers – Children’s right to defend their well-being and development

This exploratory think-piece probes a few provocative issues raised by the conference topic: Children’s Participation in Child Protection. It is occasioned by a theoretical question arising from practical field experience: What right do children have to independently defend their own best interests, as they see them, against not only the usual oppressors and exploiters but also against putative government or NGO “protectors” they either do not recognize as legitimate or whose purposes and agenda they disagree with?  As minors, do they have to knuckle under to whatever adult authority claims to want to protect them, or is there sufficient legal and moral justification for them to dismiss or oppose “protective” instruction they did not invite and regard as irrelevant or counterproductive?  And what about their rights? Sometimes children claim their rights in ways that directly conflict with national and international “child protection.”  

Download paper here

Conference Presentations

• Definitions of child participation

Equitas Presentation – Fred Hareau

Right to Play Presentation – Laura Wright

Plan Presentation – Ivette Fonseca

• Ethical tensions

Kavita Ratna – Working children

• Legal tensions

Kay Tisdall – Legal personality and legal capacity

Lucy Jamieson – Contradictory visions of children

• Political tensions

Irene Rizzini – Democratic processes of construction and implementation

Richard Carothers – Bolivia case

• Practical tensions

Jason Hart – Institutional barriers
Gerison Lansdown – M&E tensions

• Monitoring and Evaluation Training

Gerison Lansdown – M&E workshop

Additional resources:

CPICP Youth Preparatory Meeting Summary

CPICP Small Group Follow UP Planning Summary

CPICP Trends Mapping

It’s International Development Week! What are you doing to get involved?

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Take a look at working children and youth as active and empowered citizens through the online gallery and empower yourself by learning. Click here!

“On this day December 9, 1996, representatives of the movements of Children and Adolescents in Africa, Asia and Latin America met for the first time in the city of Kundapur, India to exchange experiences and proposals to enforce their rights. Ten years later, in October 2006 on the occasion of the Third World Meeting of Working Children and Youth in the city of Siena, Italy, they decided to take the 9 December of each year as a day to remember and reaffirm the struggle of millions of Children and young workers worldwide.”

Learn more about MOLACNATS and the Movement of Working Children here.

Equitas is delighted to invite you to a Gala Cocktail with the Right Honourable Paul Martin and the Honourable Justice Frank Iacobucci as we recognize International Human Rights Day by learning how we can build bridges and greater understanding between Indigenous and other Canadians.

The Right Honourable Paul Martin will discuss his work promoting Aboriginal education and the new Canadians for a New Partnership initiative.  Launched in August, Canadians for a New Partnership brings together distinguished Canadians from diverse backgrounds to open space for a new dialogue about the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in Canada. It is built on the principle that Indigenous and other Canadians can together build a strong economy and values-based society that will benefit present and future generations.

Mr. Martin will be introduced by the Hon. Frank Iacobucci, former Supreme Court Justice and Equitas Honourary Board Member.

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This is event is generously hosted by TD Bank Group

In honour of Universal Children’s Day and the 25th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, announced today, funding to help end violence against children. This announcement was made during a joint school event with the International Child Protection Network of Canada (ICPNC).

Read more about the announcement and the event here:

http://www.international.gc.ca/media/dev/news-communiques/2014/11/20a.aspx?lang=eng