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Sub Saharan Africa
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Sessions Schedule
| Title: | Ensuring inclusive and child-friendly access to justice to all children in Africa | |||||||
| Welcoming remarks | Honourable Joseph Ndayisenga | Chairperson of The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child | ||||||
| Moderator: | Karabo Ozah | Center for Child Law, University of Pretoria | ||||||
Testimony | Joana Rosa | Minister of Justice, Cape Verde | ||||||
| Victoria Ouédraogo Kibora | Minister of Justice, Burkina Faso | |||||||
Speakers: | Nkatha Murungi | Assistant Director of the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria South Africa | Theme: Access to non-discriminatory and inclusive child justice systems | |||||
| Mathieu Lompo | Director of the Juvenile Justice Department of the Ministry of Justice, Burkina Faso | Theme: The approach to juvenile justice in Burkina Faso and the role of assessors in juvenile hearings | ||||||
| Edmund Foley | Director of Programs of the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa, Gambia | Theme: Main challenges of the application of child-friendly justice approach in judicial proceedings (TBC) | ||||||
| Karen Muller | Director of the Child Witness Institute, South Africa | Theme: Access to inclusive justice systems protecting child victims and witnesses during judicial proceedings | ||||||
| Ann Skelton | Member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child – Professor of Law at the University of Pretoria South Africa | Theme: Enforcing the application of international and regional instruments and mechanisms to ensure access to child-friendly and equitable justice systems | ||||||
Workshops Block A
AFR Workshop A1
| Title | Brain Injury in Children in contact with the law (Les lésions cérébrales des enfants en contact avec la loi) | |
| Organiser | Prof. Huw Williams, University of Exeter | |
| Type | Panel Discussion | |
| Language | English | |
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AFR Workshop A2
| Title | Le guide d’entretien CAP Désistance, un support de travail pour soutenir l’accompagnement d’enfants incarcérés (The CAP Desistance interview guide, a working tool to support the accompaniment of incarcerated children) | |
| Organiser | Anne-Severine Fabre, Université de Lausanne | |
| Type | Panel Discussion | |
| Language | French | |
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AFR Workshop A3
| Title | Les catégories de mesures non-privatives de liberté en faveur des enfants en conflit avec la loi (Categories of non-custodial measures for children in conflict with the law) | |
| Organiser | Boubacar Tchiombiano, Terre des hommes Lausanne | |
| Type | Panel Discussion | |
| Language | French | |
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AFR Workshop A4
| Title | La place des juridictions pour enfants dans les institutions judiciaires (The place of child courts in judicial institutions) | |
| Organiser | Boubacar Tchiombiano, Terre des hommes Lausanne | |
| Type | Panel Discussion | |
| Language | French | |
| Description | Download | |
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AFR Workshop A5
| Title | Les enfants associés aux groupes et forces armés : les bonnes pratiques et leçons tirées en matière de libération, d’accès à la justice et de réinsertion (Children associated with armed groups and forces: good practices and lessons learned in terms of release, access to justice and reintegration) | |
| Organiser | Laura Jacques, Tdh et Sandra Maignant, Plan International | |
| Type | Panel Discussion | |
| Language | French, English (Translation) | |
| Description | Download | |
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AFR Workshop A6
| Title | Garantir un accès non-discriminatoire et inclusif aux enfants en contact avec la justice en renforçant les compétences des acteurs des systèmes de protection de l’enfance. | |
| Organiser | Martin Causin, Bureau international des droits des enfants (IBCR) | |
| Type | Panel Discussion | |
| Language | French | |
| Description | Download | |
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Workshops Block B
AFR Workshop B1
| Title | Les difficultés relatives aux réformes législatives en matière de protection de l’enfant (Challenges to child protection legislative reforms) | |
| Organiser | Boubacar Tchiombiano, Terre des hommes Lausanne | |
| Type | Panel Discussion | |
| Language | French | |
| Description | Download | |
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AFR Workshop B2
| Title | Participation inclusive de l’enfant en vue d’améliorer les pratiques dans le système de justice pour enfants (Inclusive child participation to improve practices in the child justice system) | |
| Organiser | Martin Causin, Bureau international des droits des enfants (IBCR) | |
| Type | Panel Discussion | |
| Language | French | |
| Description | Download | |
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AFR Workshop B3
| Title | Effective Child and Youth Participation in Peacebuilding and Transitional Processes (Promouvoir la participation des enfants et des jeunes dans les processus de consolidation de la paix et de transition) | |
| Organiser | Lucy Opoka, Tdh, Leiden University and SRSG CAAC | |
| Type | Panel Discussion | |
| Language | English | |
| Description | Download | |
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AFR Workshop B4
| Title | A violência sexual de gênero e o papel da justiça na garantia de direitos de crianças e adolescentes. | |
| Organiser | Eduardo Rezende Melo, L’Association Internationale des Magistrats de la Jeunesse et de la Famille (AIMJF) | |
| Type | Panel Discussion | |
| Language | Portugese | |
| Description | Download | |
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AFR Workshop B5
| Title | Renforcer et garantir l’accès à une assistance juridique adaptée aux enfants en contact avec la justice (Strengthen and promote access to child-friendly legal aid for children in contact with the justice system) | |
| Organiser | Me Diassi Mactar François, Bureau Africain d’études sur les Droits de l’Enfant | |
| Type | Panel Discussion | |
| Language | French, English | |
| Description | Download | |
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AFR Workshop B6
| Title | Repenser l’accès à la justice pour tous les enfants en période post-conflit : le cas des enfants victimes des enfants soldats (Rethinking access to justice for all children in the post-conflict period: the case of child victims of child soldiers) | |
| Organiser | Dre. Christelle Molima, University of Geneva | |
| Type | Training with Certificate | |
| Language | French | |
| Description | Download | |
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AFR Workshop B7
| Title | Strategies, Experiences, and Intergenerational Action for the Follow-up to the Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty in Africa | |
| Organiser | Kristen Hope, Tdh | |
| Type | Panel Discussion | |
| Language | French | |
| Description | Download | |
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