Announcements
Child in the City: 5th European Conference
The 2010 Child in the City Conference will take place in Florence, Italy from 27 to 29 October. The conference is organised on a bi-annual basis by the European Network Child Friendly Cities and the Child in the City Foundation. It is taking place for the first time in southern Europe, after previous venues in [...]
World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, 21–24 September 2010
Every two years, WHO co-sponsors the World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion. Considered the major scientific platform for furthering knowledge on violence and injuries, the World Conference draws around 1,200 of the world’s leading researchers, practitioners and advocates from more than 130 countries.
The event is hosted and organized by Liverpool John Moores University, [...]
XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010)
The biennial International AIDS Conference being held in Vienna, Austria from 18–23 July 2010, brings together some 25 000 scientists, government representatives, health workers, activists, business leaders, and people with HIV and AIDS.
The theme of AIDS 2010, “Rights here, right now” emphasizes that promoting and protecting human rights is needed for a successful response to [...]
Childhoods Conference Call for Papers
Mapping the Landscapes of Childhood
Venue: University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Date: Thursday, May 5 – Saturday, May 7, 2011
This multidisciplinary conference will engage scholars and practitioners from a wide variety of academic disciplines (including the sciences, arts, humanities, social sciences, policy studies, and education) in a consideration of the state of child studies, [...]
WorldForum 2010, A World Fit for Children: Advancing the Global Movement
International delegates and child welfare experts will gather at the IBM Learning Center in Palisades, New York this November 8 to 11 for WorldForum 2010, the 21st annual summit of the International Forum for Child Welfare (IFCW). This year’s theme, A World Fit for Children: Advancing the Global Movement, sets the stage for 500 delegates from 40 [...]
The Southern Cone Initiative on Child Rights and Health is holding a 3-day meeting in Uruguay from 28-30 May 2010
The Southern Cone Initiative on Child Rights and Health, composed of Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia and Paraguay, will update the work done by the 5 countries for the last …. years on CRED-PRO in the region. The Initiative will also work on developing two additional CRED-PRO modules for the region: one on child participation, and [...]
Recorded Webinar – Wednesday 4/29/10 – Child Development and Child Rights
WEBINAR SERIES
CHILD HEALTH EQUITY AND CHILD RIGHTS
Child Development and Child Rights
Clyde Hertzman, M.D. is internationally renowned for his work in generating new understandings and approaches to early childhood development. Through his work, Dr. Hertzman has been instrumental in creating a new synthesis which links population health to human development. This webinar will focus on the [...]
Recorded webinar – Child Participation—Rights and Responsibilities-Gerison Lansdown, March 24, 2010
WEBINAR SERIES
CHILD HEALTH EQUITY AND CHILD RIGHTS
Child Participation—Rights and Responsibilities
Gerison Lansdown, an internationally renowned advocate and researcher in child rights, will be presenting on the principles of child participation as a fundamental right of all children. Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is one of the principle articles of [...]
The Second Annual Greenville Family Symposium, April 12-14, 2010
The Second Annual Greenville Family Symposium brings together the Clemson University Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life and three co-sponsoring national or international scientific and professional organizations (the American Orthopsychiatric Association, the International Family Therapy Association, and the International Society for Child Indicators). The diversity of cultures and disciplines represented in the symposium promises to [...]
ESSOP Annual Meeting – 13th-17th October 2010 – Izmir, Turkey
13th-17th October 2010 - Izmir, Turkey
Provisional topic: Well-child care
ESSOP 2010 – President’s Introduction
As President of the European Society for Social Paediatrics and Child Health (ESSOP), I am happy to welcome you to the 2010 ESSOP Annual Conference. We are delighted to be in the beautiful city of Kuşadası to hold this meeting jointly with the Turkish Social [...]