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POTENTIAL
PRESENTATION TOPICS for 2004:The Rights of the Child
(this list is not exhaustive)
General Topics Related to Children’s Rights
The Impact
and future of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
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Current
programs and lessons learned from the Convention
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Analyzing
the strengths and weaknesses of the Convention (i.e. what it may
not cover but should)
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The
status of the Optional Protocols on the sale of children and the
involvement of children in armed conflict
- Evaluating the UN Millennium
Development Goals for children
- Implementing UNESCO's Education For All Program
- UNICEF and child survival
- Educational gender gap in developing countries
Determining funding to promote children’s rights
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Society,
State, and Global responsibilities
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The ‘child annex’ to
the national budget in Brazil and Norway
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Amount
of money needed to promote rights and prevent abuses
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Advantages
and disadvantages to different child protection programs
A look at who is responsible for insuring children’s rights (i.e.
family, state, international organizations)
The role of international organizations and the media in promoting
children’s
rights (i.e. UNICEF, Amnesty International)
Differences of children’s rights and needs depending on country
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Access to the rights of food, water and shelter
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Differences
in concern for and support of children’s
rights in different areas
The process to and impact of recent legislation
Specific topic points related to the Convention on the Rights of
the Child
Forced Labor
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Psychological maltreatment, trauma, and neglect of child soldiers
in Sierra Leone
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Child abduction and forced military conscription
in Burundi
- Child soldiers and the
reconstruction of Sri Lanka
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Closing schools and health facilities: the making of child soldiers
in Democratic Republic of Congo
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Family break-ups and child soldiers in Democratic Republic of Congo
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Drugs and child soldiers in Liberia
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Lack of access to medicine and health care for Burundi minority
refugee camps
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The impact of landmines after the fighting in Nicaragua
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Palestinian and Israeli children killed as innocent bystanders
- Children caught in the violence in Israel and Afghanistan
- Impact of US military present in Liberia on the situation of children
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Regulation and conditions for the international adoption of children
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Determining society, state, and global responsibility to orphans
and refugees
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Sleeping on the streets and panhandling to survive in
Russia
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The right to survival and the economic and social future
of AIDS orphans in Kenya
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Child right sensitization training in Mongolia
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Juveniles in adult detention centers in Brazil
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Lack of
access to courts and family for ‘child combatants’ detained
in Guantanamo Bay
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Detained
children in Australia
- HIV/AIDS and children in Kenya
- Street children in Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua
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