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Posted by Jodie Martin Jun 2, 2008 |
The International Conference on Child Labour and Child Exploitation will be held from 3 to 5 August 2008 in Cairns, Australia.
The Conference will "evaluate the progress and achievements made in relation to the eradication of the worst forms of child labour and will explore the challenges ahead in securing rights for children in the 21st century and meeting the Millennium Development Goals by 2015."
The program will include plenaries, panel discussions and workshops for attendees.
Some of the speakers will be:
- Madame Justice Rosalie Abella (Supreme Court of Canada)
- Bill Bell (Head of Protection, Save the Children, United Kingdom)
- Sharan Burrow (President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and International Trade Union Confederation)
- Radhika Coomaraswamy (Sri Lanka, United Nations Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict)
- Professor Mick Dodson AM (Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Studies at the Australian National University and Professor of Law at the ANU College of Law)
- Michele Jankanish (Director, International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) ILO)
- Dr Eddie Mhlanga (Nelson Mandela School of Medicine at the University of Kwa-Zulu-Natal in Durban)
- John Trew (Senior Technical Advisor, Child Labor & Education, CARE USA)
- Henri Tiphagne (Executive Director, Peoples Watch India)
- Noel Pearson (Director, Cape York Institute)
For more information or to register, check out the International Conference on Child Labour and Child Exploration website.