Upcoming Course on Childrens Rights - Norway September 2007
Dear Friends of the HumanDHS network
Please find below information regarding an upcoming course in Norway on childrens rights.
Kind regards
Brian Ward
Children’s Rights: Time and Space
Childhood as a Contested Terrain?
PhD/Research course
Trondheim, Norway, 25–28 September 2007
The course presents an overview of different declarations on
children’s rights in a historical perspective. It discusses the
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and its implications for
children’s lives in different parts of the world. Children’s lives and
welfare in the light of changing policies and processes of
globalisation will be explored. The additional topics to be addressed
include gender and girls’ rights, emerging issues on the rights of
minority group children (e.g. the rights of street children, the rights
of refugee children etc.), children as social participants in the
economic, social and cultural reproduction of society, the role of
NGOs in the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of
the Child, assessments of national reports on children’s rights,
migration and ethnicity, childhood, time and space, childhood as
symbolic space, etc. Throughout nuanced discussions, the course
also addresses the competing discourses on children as
autonomous beings or as dependent social becomings.
The course presents an overview of different declarations on children’s rights in a historical
perspective. It discusses the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and its implications
Further information on: http://www.svt.ntnu.no/noseb/paameldinger/
Deadline for registration is 8 August 2007