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Experts and actors throughout the legal field, including
international court judges and representatives of treaty-monitoring bodies addressed the issue of children and
international justice in Strasbourg on 17-18 September, 2007. Amongst the topics
discussed were: international law and children's rights, children's access to international justice
and child-friendly
justice procedures.
Programme
Concept
paper
Background paper
Conference report
Presentations by:
•
Maud
de Boer-Buquicchio, Deputy Secretary General
of the Council of Europe
• Jane
Connors, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
•
Thomas
Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights
of the Council of Europe
•
Isabelle
Berro-Lefèvre, judge of the European Court of Human Rights
•
Josiane
Bigot (in French) judge of the Court of Appeal of Colmar
•
Polonca
Končar,
President of the European
Committee of Social Rights
•
Yanghee
Lee, Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
•
Peter
Newell, Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children
•
Marta
Santos Pais, Unicef Innocenti Research Centre
•
Helen
Seifu, the African Child Policy Forum
•
Françoise
Tulkens, judge of the European Court of Human Rights
The conclusions of this conference are included in the
publication: "International
justice for children" |
