The Human Rights Law Centre Summer School on the Rights of the Child will run from 24 to 28 June 2013 at Nottingham University.

The objective of the programme is to consider issues concerning the rights of the child that are a matter of current  legal, political and societal debate, both internationally and comparatively. These include violence against children, child participation, child poverty, and child rights monitoring and advocacy. There will be devoted sessions to international and regional child rights law, including the work of the international courts and treaty monitoring bodies mandated to consider violations of the rights of the child.

The training methods include Q and A and group exercises. The working language will be English. All participants will receive an extensive electronic file of resource materials.

The Summer School faculty are all highly experienced international experts on child rights, with backgrounds in advocacy, research and practice. The Summer School is being led by Professor Aoife Nolan of Nottingham University School of Law

Members of the Summer School faculty for 2013 include:

Professor Michael Freeman, Emeritus Professor of Law, University College London and Editor of International Journal of Children’s Rights;

Professor Ursula Kilkelly, Head of the Department of Law and Director of the Child Law Clinic, University College Cork;

Professor Laura Lundy, Director of the Centre for Children’s Rights, Queen’s University, Belfast;

Professor Dominic McGoldrick, Professor of International Human Rights Law, University of Nottingham;

Dr Benyam Dawit Mezmur, Chairperson of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child of the African Union, and member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child;

Ms Lisa Myers, Director of the NGO group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Geneva;

For further information, please visit www.nottingham.ac.uk/hrlc/SummerSchool or contact Miss Kobie Neita – +44 (0)115 84 66309