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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" |
