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Monday October 13, 2008 Events Calendar Archive |
The Rights of the ChildConference on the Rights of the Child On April 8, the student International Human Rights Organization at UND will be sponsoring its first annual event on campus -- a conference on the Rights of the Child. The Convention on the Rights of the Child was the first legally binding international instrument to incorporate the full range of human rights protections—civil, cultural, economic, political and social. The leaders of the world decided that children needed a special convention just for them. People under eighteen years of age often need special care and protection that adults do not. It is critical that the world recognize children have human rights too. Nearly every country in the United Nations has signed and ratified the convention. The United States has not. That is unfortunate because the stakes are so high. Every year, thousands of innocent children are the targets and victims of numerous human rights abuses: slavery; starvation; murder; conscription -- the problems are endless. But they must be discussed, solutions must be proposed, and action must be taken. To illuminate the issues of children’s human rights, the Conference will bring together on campus five experts on the issues of children’s human rights. These speakers will grapple with some of the problems mentioned above. They will provide a wide range of experience and information through both individual presentations and a panel discussion. Schedule - in pdf format
All events will be held in Baker Courtroom at the UND School of Law.
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