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.