Opportunities and Challenges for Protecting Children's Rights

Please join us for the expert and student conference "Opportunities and Challenges for Protecting Children's Rights" which takes place as part of the Open Society University Network Collaborative Course "Children's Rights."  This conference will draw attention to a set of pressing contemporary abuses of children’s rights globally including physical attacks on children during wartime and occupation, child labor, domestic abuse, lack of access to healthcare, and denial of asylum rights. In resonance with the 99th session of reporting to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) set to begin in Geneva on May 12th, student research groups from the Bard College Berlin, Bard College, Al-Quds Bard College of Arts and Sciences and the American University of Central Asia will be presenting NGO-style advocacy reports aimed at informing CRC Committee questions to States Parties. There will also be presentations from professors from the partner campuses, local human rights practitioners and researchers in related fields.

On May 7 student presentations will take place from 14:00-16:00 in the JJK Café; and on May 8 student presentations will take place from 14:00-16:30 in the Lecture Hall. 

Additional events on May 8 include:
11:00-12:00 Presentation and discussion on children’s right to health and combating polio by Prof. Helen Epstein (Bard)

12:30-13:30: Civic Engagement lunch presentation “Play!Berlin, from Emergency Response to Sustainable Local Activism” 

16:30-18:30 Keynote panel “Protecting Children’s Rights: From International Criminal Law to Literature.” This panel will explore the way in which international criminal law–with a focus on the International Criminal Court–has developed and its capacities to protect children’s rights in particular, at the same time exploring gaps in this protective capacity that need to be filled through other forms of political communication and imaginative storytelling. Prof. Dr. Kerry Bystrom (BCB) will moderate a discussion with Ms. Maryna Hovorukhina, Dr. Jana Lozanoska (Al Quds Bard), Prof. Dr. Peter Schneck (Osnabrück University) and Dr. Laura Zander (Osnabrück University). The panel will followed by a reception 
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While this conference was not conceived in connection to the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, events on May 8th will begin with a moment of silence to honor the victims–including the many child victims–of Nazi crimes. 

Members of the BCB community are welcome to attend all listed events. The Keynote panel is additionally open to external guests by pre-registration. In order to ensure proper catering for the Keynote panel reception, all attendees should please register here by Tuesday, May 6th.

Questions can be addressed to the event organizer, Prof. Dr. Kerry Bystrom.

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For more information, e-mail k.bystrom@berlin.bard.edu.

Time: 2:00 pm – 7:30 pm CET/GMT+1

Location: Lecture Hall (Platanenstr. 98a, 13156 Berlin)

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