[child-rights] Conference "The Pledge for Peace for Children: Reality or Hope?" (Leeds, UK, 26 March 2004)

Hi,

Please could you publicise the conference on "The Pledge for Peace for
Children: Reality or Hope?" which will take place at the Leeds
Metropolitan University, Beckett Park, Leeds, UK, on 26th March 2004 -
please see the attached poster for full details.

Thanks,

Eddie



Edward F Halpin MA MCILIP
Reader in Social Informatics
School of Information Management
Leeds Met University
Tel. 0044 (0)113 283 7585

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Lectre Theatre D
James Graham Building
Beckett Park Campus
Leeds Metroplitan University
Friday 26th March 2004

This seminar will launch the Praxis Centre at Leeds Metropolitan University
through an informative seminar on armed conflict and the Rights of the
Child; with practical examples of the technologies used and real abuses
from areas of conflict.

Chair: Professor Simon Lee, Vice-Chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University

PROGRAMME

12:00 – 12:15: Professor Simon Lee, Vice-Chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan
University.

Welcome speech.
12:15 – 12:30: Professor Tony Bryant, Professor of Informatics, School of
Information
Management, Leeds Metropolitan University.
12:30 – 12:55: Rae McGrath, Founder Mine Advisory Group and Nobel Peace Prize
Co-Laureate. A practical vision of the reality of children of war, the
explosive remnants of war and the results that follow
12:55 – 13:20: Andrea Khan, Policy Analyst & Researcher, Office of the
Honourable
Landon Pearson, Advisor on Children's Rights, the Senate of Canada
The Canadian Policy "A Canada Fit for Children" – a response to the
UN policy
13:20 – 13:40: Break – Light refreshments will be provided
13:40 – 14:05: Rebecca Peters, Director of IANSA (the International Action
Network on
Small Arms). The impacts of small arms on the rights of the child,
examining the impacts on children and communities
14:05 – 14:30: Pam Dawes, Manchester Aid to Kosovo. Child survivors -
protection
and empowerment
14:30 – 15:00: Open Question Time.

Please RSVP to Eddie Halpin, Director of Praxis Centre:
e.halpin@leedsmet.ac.uk or Edward Halpin,
Leeds Metropolitan University, Priestley Building, Beckett Park, Leeds LS6 3QS




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