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The International Children’s Rights Protection Network
THE establishment of The International Children's Rights Protection Network at the '2001 World Congress On Family Law And The Rights Of Children And Youth Congress' held in Bath, England signals a significant development for the Congress.
The Network highlights the evolution of the World Congress from a unique, academic exchange and ideas forum to one that also embraces the capacity of professional bodies and individuals to contribute their expertise in a practical way to furthering the issues and concerns of the Congress.
The Network, which recently appointed a CEO, will take its place among other civil society based, non-government organizations. It brings together lawyers, lawyer educators and associated professional bodies in a cooperative effort to provide assistance to children through its twofold focus on education and legal advocacy.
The Network will be working hard in the coming months to consolidate its organisational framework; cement links with professional bodies and individuals and identify educational and other opportunities and projects.
In both its education and legal advocacy functions the Congress will be seeking the active support of professionals able to contribute time, expertise and other resources. The success of the Network will be dependent upon your active support and participation, ideas and expertise.
Principal Activities of the Network a. Education
Under its education function the Network has specific training goals as well as general education objectives: It will:
i.assist the education of lawyers and the judiciary in the recognition of the importance and enforcement of the rights guaranteed by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and for that purpose develop and present judicial education programmes and seminars for the training of lawyers in these matters.
ii.co-ordinate the use of lawyers' organisations to encourage, where appropriate, those in government to adjust laws (both national and interna-
tional) and policy to support and encourage laws, practices and institutions which promote and protect the rights of children by, among other things, promoting the adoption of resolutions of the World Congress.
iii.b y the use of the media and selected spokespersons create climates for change by generating public desire and political will for change.
iv.assist in partnership with others the training of journalists and other media representatives to better and more appropriately and sensitively report on the rights of children and related issues.
v.The Network will also actively seek to become involved in international forums providing its perspective and expertise as appropriate.
b.Legal advocacy
The International Children's Rights Protection Network aims to provide very practical support through the practice of law and the provision of peer support by legal practitioners and allied professionals to those engaging in action particularly through the courts and in the area of legislative development. Practitioners and others will be sourced through Congress networks in every continent particularly via Bar Associations, Law Societies and other professional bodies allied to the Congress.
This work will be supported by a strong complementary media advocacy policy.
Under its legal functions the Network will:
I. represent children or assist in the representation of children in land-
mark cases where the outcome is likely to be important to the protection and preservation of not only the children the subject of the process but children generally.
ii.provide systems of pro bono representation of children in cases where serious injustice would result to a particular child or children absent that representation, or where the case represents a watershed in the promotion of rights or the prevention of their abuse.
iii.provide training in the art of advocacy (in a legal sense) for a child, including the use of expert evaluation techniques.
Opportunities for participation
The Network recognises the unique cultural, demographic, economic, legal, communications and related environments of regions and countries already participants the World Congress.
As a modest structure, the Network will be reliant on its regional and international linkages to ensure that issues and concerns that will benefit from international support and scrutiny are brought to the attention of the Network and the Congress.
To that end the Network hopes to encourage the appointment of honorary, locally- engaged Directors whose task it will be to act as a communications focal point for interested professionals in the region. Guidelines are being developed and will be disseminated in early May.
Strategic Goals
In its first year the focus will be on the promotion of the network around the world. In its first year the Network hopes to, among other things, achieve significant progress in its international profile work towards Observer Status at relevant international bodies develop and implement at least two training programs, develop and formalise cooperative partnerships with the relevant professional bodies within the Commonwealth, promote the outcomes and recommendations of the 2001 Congress, and consider intervention in (if appropriate) and / or
support of or advice to landmark legal matters
During its second year the Network will begin to focus on strategic advocacy and training with:
intervention in (if appropriate) and / or support of or advice to landmark legal matters; presentation of regional seminars focusing on aspects of legal advocacy and representation pertaining to children; expansion of cooperative partnerships in other regions; promotion of Congress outcomes; the commencement of monitoring of previous Congress outcomes including the adoption of extra territorial legislation in relation to sex offences against children and the treaty on international child adoption; expansion of the signing and adopting of the Hague Civil Abduction Convention and the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children enhancement of cooperative partnerships with the relevant professional bodies within the Commonwealth and development of partnerships with other regions
Bangladesh Focal Point
LAW WATCH, A Center for Studies on Human Rights Law was the only Bangladeshi representative at the 2001 Bath Congress. The Director of LAW WATCH presented a report in the Congress on the state of the violence against children in Bangladesh. Primary correspondence for further information may be directed to LAW WATCHlawwatch2001@yahoo.com>.