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Conference Using Children’s Rights to Recover from the Global Pandemic

On 3 July Eurochild will host an international hybrid conference on the topic of mainstreaming children’s rights into decision-making through the use of child rights impact assessments. This conference is part of Eurochild’s EU-funded Building Children’s Futures project, in partnership with the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre and Ireland’s leading organisations and government representatives for children rights.

Registrations are now open to attend online – click here to register.

Our conference, Using children’s rights to recover from the global pandemic, will bring together children, national governments, the European Union, academia civil society, professionals, all to discuss the importance of listening and including children meaningfully in decision-making through the use of child rights impact assessments.

As we all know, the cumulative impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has had major implications for a generation of children and young people across Europe. This project worked to ensure that the pandemic recovery would be guided by:

• Improving understanding of the impact of Covid-19 on activities and services for children and young people, especially those disproportionately affected by measures.
• Raising awareness on how decisions about children’s rights were made and the role of child/youth participation and local structures played during emergency times.
• Identifying best practice in responding to children’s needs during the pandemic and how child rights impact assessments are used throughout Europe.

These perspectives, and more, will be shared as part of our conference’s expert-packed programme. The Centre’s own Dr Danielle Kennan will present the findings from the Children’s Report research co-created with children and young people as part of the project.

Further information is available here: Using children’s rights to recover from the global pandemic – Eurochild