Veronica Yates, Director of CRIN, the Children’s Rights International Network talks to Emma McKinley, Children’s Rights Policy Officer about the new Third Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications pr
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2012-06-13
Children’s Rights Alliance Sixteenth Annual General Meeting Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Professor Michael O’Flaherty: Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and member of the UN Human Rights Committee
The Importance of Civil Society Groups Engaging in Human Rights Shadow Reporting
Professor Aoife Nolan: Nottingham University School of Law
Children's Rights after the Financial Crisis: A Call to Arms for the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
2011-08-03
Mary King, Chairperson of the Dún Laoghaire Refugee Project (DRP) celebrates the organisation's ten-year anniversary on World Refugee Day (June 20 2011). She talks about how things have changed over the past ten years for asylum seekers and separated children in particular and why the DRP has been so successful in providing support and gaining the trust of its clients.
2011-02-18
Keelin Shanley, presenter of the Eleventh Hour, talks to Jillian van Turnhout about the General Election. Keelin discusses emerging themes, key issues and how the election agenda is set.
2011-01-11
In this podcast you will hear the views of some of the 100 young people who took part in the ‘Your World – Your Say’ consultation on their views on children’s engagement in European and international levels of decision-making.The event took place on 17 November 2010 and was hosted by the Alliance, in partnership with the Irish Second Level Students’ Union.
Podcast: Dr. Patrick Randall, Chair of the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers (NOTA)
2010-11-19
To mark World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse, Alliance Chief Executive, Jillian van Turnhout, speaks to Dr. Patirck Randall, clinical and forensic psychologist and Chair of the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers (NOTA), about his work. Please click here to download a copy of the podcast transcript
2010-11-19
In a special podcast to mark the 21st anniversary on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Alliance speaks to Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Barry Andrews, TD. The Minister outlines the progress made in Ireland since the ratification of the Convention and expresses his hope that constitutional reform will be the “lasting legacy of the Convention in this country”.
2010-08-02
Chris Davis, Head of Global Campaigns at The Body Shop speaks of Dame Anita Roddick as the inspiration behind The Body Shop's and ECPAT's global campaign entitled: ‘Stop Sex Trafficking of Children and Young People' . Chris also says that it is more profitable to trade in children than guns on the black market.
2010-06-28
Recorded in May, during the debacle surrounding deaths of children in HSE care, Deputy O’Caoláin speaks of his own personal, commitment to the strengthening of children’s rights in the Constitution, and that of his party, which unanimously adopted, as party policy, total support for a children’s rights referendum.
2010-05-31
Deputy Shatter describes the ‘absolute need’ to strengthen children’s rights in the Constitution, pointing to the publication of ‘far too many reports’ that clearly demonstrate that children are being Alan Shatter TD, Fine Gael Frontbench Spokesperson on Children, says Irish adoption laws are ‘decades behind’ those of other countries when over 2,000 children in long-term foster care stand no chance of adoption, owing to provisions under the outdated Irish Constitution. Deputy Shatter describes the ‘absolute need’ to strengthen children’s rights in the Constitution, pointing to the publication of ‘far too many reports’ that clearly demonstrate that children are being left far too long in families where they endure physical or sexual abuse. He calls on Government to issue a date for a referendum on children’s rights that, he describes, is ‘vitally important’.