CHILDREN'S RIGHTS

The course covers the following topics:
1. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
1.1. CRC as a legal instrument : guiding principles of the CRC.
1.2. Monitoring the CRC: periodic report to the UN Committee on the rights of the Child and the role of NGO’s network.
1.3. Case study: Italy
2. Campaigning on Children Rights: how to communicate children’s rights issues to the public and create a movement to achieve cultural and political change
2.1. Domestic campaign
2.2 International campaign
3. Unaccompanied, migrants and refugee children: how to reform legal systems learning from field experience
3.1 First assistance and reception for unaccompanied foreign minors in Italy: a legal perspective and the field role of NGOs
3.2 Measures to protect children victims of trafficking
4. Educational Poverty: a European perspective and domestic programme in Italy to address child poverty
4.1. Definition of educational poverty
4.2 Data on child poverty in Europe: an intergenerational transmission of disadvantage
4.3 Save the Children Italy’s programme response: “Punti luce” and field visit to Punto Luce Marghera (Venezia)
5. Emergency response: a child rights’ perspective
5.1 Child-friendly spaces: the protection of children and adolescents in emergency situations in Italy
Some modules of the course will be developed as practical exercises