Children's Rights and Migration

Objectives

• Acquire specialized knowledge in children's rights, particularly in the context of migration, through an international and interdisciplinary approach.
• Understand the impact of migration phenomena on children, including their right to mobility, and critically discuss the role of international instruments, particularly the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, in that regard.
• Exercise tools to effectively use human rights standards and mechanisms at the international and national level in interventions with migrant children and best interest determination.
• Explore integration approaches, methodology, and policy in the context of children's rights and migration.

Audience

Professional who works with children’s rights issues: lawyer, psychologist, sociologist, judge, law enforcement officer, social worker, teacher, government official, staff from governmental and non-governmental organizations, academic and journalistic.

Overview

The plan of study consists of a one-week-long teaching programme online and includes reading, writing and practical learning exercises. 

You will learn from outstanding scholars about:

• Introduction to international standards and children's rights in the context of migration.
• Understanding migration phenomena and their impact on children and the right to mobility.
• Policy development related to migration and children's rights.
• Interventions with migrant children and best interest determination.
• Integration approaches, methodology, and policy.

Pedagogical methods

Dynamic methods combining lectures, group discussions and workshops allow the interaction between theory and practice.

Speakers

Selected prominent practitioners in international organizations and renowned international experts in children’s rights.

Admission criteria

Persons who wish to participate as an auditor to one or more of the executive training programmes are required to hold a university degree (or judged equivalent) and are expected to have at least two years of relevant professional experience. They must also have a very good working knowledge of English to participate actively in the programme.

This application consists of:

• the completed application form.
• a motivation letter.
• a short curriculum vitae (max. 3 pages) that includes education record, professional history and work experience in children's rights.

Applications to participate as auditor, have to be submitted in English by email or by post at least one month before the start of the programme. 

The Steering Committee will revise the application and provide the approval. The decisions of the Steering Committee regarding applications for auditors are final.

A limited number of auditors can be accepted to attend the programme. Therefore, early applications will be given priority and acceptance is granted on a first come first served basis.

Certificate

Participants receive a certificate of attendance to the specified programme(s).

Fees

Application Fee: CHF 150

Tuition fee: CHF 2’300

Director

Prof. Karl Hanson, Centre interfacultaire en droits de l’enfant (CIDE), University of Geneva.

Coordinator

Dr Roberta Ruggiero, University of Geneva