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Launch: Building Children’s Futures: Using Children’s Rights to Recover from the Global Pandemic. The Children’s Report.

Launch: Building Children’s Futures: Using Children’s Rights to Recover from the Global Pandemic. The Children’s Report.

We are delighted to invite you to the launch of a new children’s research report, conducted by UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway in partnership with Foróige, and published as part of the wider ‘Building Children’s Futures: Using Children’s Rights to Recover from the Global Pandemic’ project.

The ‘Building Children’s Futures: Using Children’s Rights to Recover from the Global Pandemic’ project is funded by the EU Commission and is being led by the Children’s Rights Alliance in partnership with the Department of Children Equality Disability Integration and Youth, Tusla, Ireland’s Child and Family Agency and Children and Young People’s Services Committees (CYPSC), Eurochild, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, School of Political Science and Sociology,  University of Galway, and Foróige. Using Ireland as a case study, the project aims to document how child participation structures worked during the Covid-19 pandemic and identify best practices in Covid-19 responses in Europe. The project will explore how a child rights-based approach, utilising Child Rights Impact Assessments (CRIAs), can be embedded in decision-making in times of emergency. 
 

The launch of this research report, taking place online via Zoom on Wednesday 28 February 2024, will feature a fantastic line up of speakers: 

Chair:
Karen Hannify, Director of Marketing, Communications and External Relations at Foróige.

Speakers:

Kevin McCarthy - Secretary General of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Dr Danielle Kennan - Senior Researcher at UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, University of Galway
Representatives from the Children and Young Person’s Advisory Group

Please join us for the online launch on Wednesday 28th February 2024 from 2pm – 4pm

Please register to attend here.

We look forward to seeing you at the launch!

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