Child Rights Symposium

GlobalChild and African Child Policy Forum

Oct. 23 | 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

GlobalChild in partnership with the African Child Policy Forum would be organising a one-day symposium themed ‘Child Poverty’. The object is to broaden or improve, among policy practitioners, the understanding of the impact of child poverty on overall socio-economic development and share experiences of countries that are succeeding at reducing it.

The event which is designed as a high-level event to bring together globally renowned experts in child rights and practitioners based in Ethiopia for a conversation centred around this theme. The relevancy of the foregoing is the fact that the African continent is reputed to have the youngest population in the world and nearly half of the same population is under 18 years of age. The Symposium is expected to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas, formation and strengthening of partnerships with the potential to sustainably combat child poverty in Africa and beyond.

Participants

Policy practitioners and senior experts on child rights from both government and non-government organisations based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

• Prof. Kirsten Sandberg, Professor of Law at the University of Oslo, former chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Norway
• Dr. Ziba Vaghri, Associate Professor, Research Chair in Child Rights & Child Development, University of New Brunswick (UNB), Canada
• Dr. Nurper Ülküer, Professor of Child Development at Uskudar University, Türkiye
• Dr. Leyla Namazova-Baranova, Pediatrician and Honored Scientist, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
• Dr. Raúl Mercer, Professor and Coordinator of the Program of Social Sciences and Health at Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Argentina
• Mr. Adem Arkadas, International Child Rights Consultant, France
• Dr. Alula Pankhurst, Ethiopia Country Director, Young Lives
• Mr Yehualashet Mekonen, Director, African Child Observatory Programme, ACPF