CAS Children's Rights

Location
Genève, Sion
Date
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Target Audience

Professional who works with children’s rights issues: lawyer, psychologist, sociologist, judge, law enforcement officer, social worker, teacher, government official, staff from governmental and non governmental organisations, academic and journalist

Content

Objectives

  • Acquire specialised knowledge in children’s rights in their theoretical as well as in their practical dimensions through an international and an interdisciplinary approach to the study of children’s rights

  • Understand and critically discuss the role of international instruments on children’s rights in the implementation and monitoring of children’s rights, with a particular focus on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

  • Develop the ability to contribute to the resolution of child rights related issues and problems

  • Exercise tools to effectively use human rights standards and mechanisms at the international and national levels

 

Programme

2 week-long modules to be chosen among the following modules of the MAS:

  • Children’s Rights and Childhood Studies (online)

  • International Children’s Rights Law (online)

  • Child Protection Strategies and Policies (online)

  • Children’s Rights and Criminal Justice

  • Child Labour and Education

  • Children’s Rights and Migration

  • Children’s Rights Policy Implementation and Monitoring

  • Individual training programme/CCR thematic paper