Thursday, September 24, 2009

Children, Youth and Environments

Children, Youth and Environments just published a special issue on the "Everyday Environments of Children's Poverty." Guest edited by Sheridan Bartlett and Alberto Minujin, it contains 14 original papers by leading researchers on the measurement of poverty, impacts on children, and implications for policy and practice.
Articles focus on the USA, Bangla Desh, India, Nepal, Vietnam, Iran, Congo, South Africa, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Peru, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The issue is available at: http://www.colorado.edu/journals/cye/

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Caribbean Child Research Conference 2009

The Caribbean Child Research Conference, held annually in Jamaica since its debut in 2006, contributes to this critical process by bringing research on child-related issues to a wide audience of stakeholders. The regional inter-disciplinary conference covers a range of child-related themes and aims to:
· Share research findings on issues related to children
· Strengthen the network of researchers on children’s issues
· Encourage research in both priority areas and in other important but neglected areas

The conference is supported technically and financially by UNICEF Jamaica, and is staged by the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) at the University of the West Indies, Mona in association with several child-focused agencies.

Call for Papers

Monday, July 27, 2009

International Perspectives on Children's Participation

A Handbook of Children and Young People's Participation, edited by Barry Percy-Smith and Nigel Thomas, includes discussions on challenges facing issues of participation, contextual aspects, as well as theoretical and methodological reflections about projects and practice.

The book includes chapters by prominent members of the Childwatch International Research Network.
READ MORE ON www.childwatch.uio.no

International Girl Child Conference

On 9 an 10 March 2009, the International Girl Child Conference on violence against girls was held in the Kurhaus in The Hague.

The Girl Child Conference was organised by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with the Ministry for Youth and Families, the Ministry of Health, Welfare & Sport, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, and the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre.

A website where you will find the programme, presentations and the outcome document has now been launched.
Please visit www.childwatch.uio.no for more information.