Registration and Schedule
The New Brunswick Office of the Child and Youth Advocate and the Université de Moncton presents its twelfth annual International Summer Course on the Rights of the Child, to be held June 25 to 30, 2023. The course will be held both on-site in person and virtually.
This course is intended for professionals working in the various fields of children's rights around the world.
IMPORTANT : This link is to inform out-of-country participants of the Government of Canada's vaccination requirements.
COVID-19: Travel, testing and borders
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Registration Fee:
→ Places are limited!
Continental breakfast, lunch and healthy breaks included.
Participation certificate.
Possibility of participating in our cultural outing by registering for our summer course
In-person participants wishing to use simultaneous translation for our conferences will need to bring their laptop or cell phone, as well as headphones..
Full program on-site
Regular Fees:
- $575 + eventbrite fees (CAD)
Daily registration on-site
Regular Fees:
- $235 + GST and eventbrite fees (CAD)
Full program virtual mode
Regular Fees:
- $235 + eventbrite fees (CAD)
Cultural outing on wednesday: special price!
- $50 + taxes + eventbrite fee (CAD): all-inclusive (transportation, tours and meals)
Cancellation Policy:
- Visa denial or cancellation before June 9, 2023: partial refund of the registration fee ($75 holdback).
- Cancellation after June 9, 2023: no refund
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**Official opening Sunday, June 25, 2023
from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m**
6:30 p.m. to 7:10 p.m. : Reception
7:10 p.m. to 7:25 p.m. : Opening prayer
7:25 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. : Welcome remarks
Kelly Lamrock, Child and Youth Advocate of the province of New Brunswick
Dany Benoit, Executive director of Continuing Education of Université de Moncton
7:45 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. : Opening Conference
| Monday, June 26, 2023 | ||||
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9:00 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. (AST) |
Parallel workshops: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the rights to participation overview |
Christian Whalen & Gavin Kotze |
Choice : FRENCH or ENGLISH |
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9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. |
Opening Conference |
Justice Renate Winter, Dr. Ziba Vaghri |
Simultaneous translation available |
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10:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. |
Highlight on the youth implication in General Comment 15 and General Comment 26 | Erika Tompkins Fraccaro |
Simultaneous translation available |
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10:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. |
Break |
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11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. |
Facing the future : Youth engagement at the center of health policy |
Raissa Amany |
Simultaneous translation available |
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11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. |
When young children are sent to Buddhist monasteries : Connections between children’s participation rights and the participatory capabilities of their parents |
Deborah Parkes |
Simultaneous translation available |
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12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch Break |
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1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. |
Dialogue on high schoolers self-determination : reinventing school for the realization of student’s political and environmental rights |
Geneviève Grégoire-Labrecque, Albert Lalonde |
Simultaneous translation available |
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| 1:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. | Comment impliquer les jeunes dans la lutte pour la protection de l’environnement en Haïti |
Frantz Azemar, Nixon Mesadieu, Jodelyn George |
Simultaneous translation available |
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| 2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. | Child participation at the heart of building child-friendly, climate resilient public spaces in our cities |
Paula Gallo, Annie Vandenberg |
Simultaneous translation available | |
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2:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. |
Break |
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| 2:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. | Application of Nothing about us without us approaches for children and youth affected by FASD |
Dorothy Reid, Lauren Richardson, Alicia Munn, Dr. Kelly Harding, Lisa Whittingham |
Simultaneous translation available | |
| 3:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. | ||||
| 3:45 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. | State of the Child Address | Kelly Lamrock | Simultaneous translation available | |
| Tuesday, June 27, 2023 | ||||
| Schedule | Activity | Speakers | Language | |
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9:00 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. (AST) |
Parallel workshops: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the rights to participation overview |
Christian Whalen & Gavin Kotze |
Choice : FRENCH or ENGLISH |
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9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. |
Opening Conference |
Me. Philippe André Tessier |
Simultaneous translation available |
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10:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. |
SAFER and Out in Public Projects : Perspectives of 2SLGBTQIA+ children and youth with lived experiences Opening conference - Youth participation : What we have learnt and the questions we still have to answer |
Dennis Stuebing Dr. Tara Collins, & Associates (Dr. Natasha Blanchet-Cohen, Dr. Patricio Cuevas-Parra, Lucy Jamieson, Dr. Irene Rizzini, Dr. Mónica Ruiz-Casares, Dr. Kay Tisdall, Dr. Laura Wright) |
Simultaneous translation available |
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10:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. |
Break |
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11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. |
Blue Sky Youth Action Committee : Perspective of children and youth in care in Newfoundland and Labrador (Poster Presentation) Les enfants autochtones ont le droit d’être entendu : Panorama rétrospectif et prospectif au Canada |
Sharlene Weitzman, Katherine O'Rourke, Cara Thoms, Dermot Canning Hesam Seyyed Esfahani, Carole Tranchant |
Simultaneous translation available |
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11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. |
Equitable standards for transition to adulthood for youth in care : A Canadian first voice led initiative Perspective of the newcomer African youth in Canada, with a focus on New Brunswick |
Mélanie Doucet Yusuf Shire |
Simultaneous translation available |
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12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch Break |
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1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. |
Étude approfondie sur la participation des élèves en milieu scolaire |
Bernard De Vos |
Simultaneous translation available |
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| 1:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. |
Young people’s participation in College curricula |
Dr. Tara Collins, Vanessa Zufelt, Lindsay Sinclair |
Simultaneous translation available |
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| 2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. |
La participation des élèves, une condition essentielle de la démocratie scolaire |
Karina Montminy, Daniel Ducharme |
Simultaneous translation available |
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1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. |
Workshop : Reimaginating public education |
Robin Liu Hopson & 3 co-panelists to be determined |
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2:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. |
Break |
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| 2:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. |
Young people lived experience : Access to services and discrimination |
Liv Haché |
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| 3:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. |
The fight against discrimination to be a student trustee |
Allison Williams |
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| 3:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. |
Towards advancing the best interest of child and youth rights in migration : assessing the participatory rights of unaccompanied minors in their refugee claim process |
Dustin Ciufo |
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2:45 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. |
Round Table on Democratic rights from the perspective of civics education |
Kelly Lamrock |
Simultaneous translation available |
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| Wednesday, June 28, 2023 | ||||
| Schedule | Activity | Speakers | Language | |
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9:00 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. (AST) |
Parallel workshops: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the rights to participation overview |
Christian Whalen & Gavin Kotze |
Choice : FRENCH or ENGLISH |
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9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. |
Opening conference |
Dr. Niall Muldoon |
Simultaneous translation available |
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10:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. |
Challenges and solutions to address adolescent mental health – Case studies from selected countries in the Asia Pacific region Exploring the impact of the 2011 New Brunswick Mental Health Action Plan using the Canadian Community Health Survey |
Victor Prasad Karunan Stanford Yang, Dr. Ziba Vaghri, Dr. Moria Law |
Simultaneous translation available |
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10:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. |
Break |
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11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. |
Bridging the gap between human rights, knowledge equity, and youth participation in mental health and substance use knowledge mobilization The collaborative process of designing an evolved policy and approach to youth voice and engagement in Jigsaw |
Stacie Smith & Co-Panelists to be determined David Kavanagh, Niamh Fennell |
Simultaneous translation available |
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11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. |
The Connect Project Group : A collaborative service design project in Jigsaw Highlight on article 19 and 12 of the UNCRC and the importance of freedom of expression in mental wellness |
Alexis Carey, Dr Jeff Moore, Niamh Petrie Jacqueline Leighton |
Simultaneous translation available |
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12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch Break |
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2:00 p.m. to the evening |
Cultural Excursion Hopewell Rocks and Albert Co. Museum guided tour, dinner. Registration required To participate, you must be registered for the 2023 International Summer Course. |
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| Thursday, June 29, 2023 | ||||
| Schedule | Activity | Speakers | Language | |
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9:00 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. (AST) |
Parallel workshops: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the rights to participation overview |
Christian Whalen & Gavin Kotze |
Choice : FRENCH or ENGLISH |
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9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. |
Opening conference - Le processus de participation des enfants dans la préparation du rapport annuel au président de la République française |
Eric Delemar |
Simultaneous translation available |
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10:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. |
Children’s access to justice as human rights defenders |
Mona Paré, Daniella Bendo, Jean-Frédéric (J-F) Hübsch, Anne Levesque |
Simultaneous translation available |
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10:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. |
Break |
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11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. |
Children as leaders and partners is children’s rights globally |
Hala Mreiwed, Kate Butler, Emily Chan, Terence Hamilton, Olivia Lecoufle, Laura H.V. Wright |
Simultaneous translation available |
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12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch Break |
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1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. |
A table of two organs : A reflection on child participation and access to justice by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the African Committee on Rights and Welfare of the Child |
Robert Nanima |
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| 1:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. |
Promoting meaningful participation in the criminal justice system in New Brunswick |
Alexandra Dejong, Olivia Frigault |
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| 2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. |
Mineur en danger au sein de la famille et droit d’être entendu dans les procédures judiciaires qui le concerne : Application directe de la CIDE en droit interne – Étude comparative France et Canada |
Hesam Seyyed Esfahani |
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1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. |
Round Table on Child participation in judicial proceedings |
Kelly Lamrock |
Simultaneous translation available |
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2:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. |
Break |
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| 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. |
The Young Canadians Parliament – Children First Canada Workshop - Article 12 in action : Empowering children and Youth |
Wraychel Horne, Jayden Paquet Noiseux Emily Chan, Allison Williams |
Simultaneous translation available |
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| 3:45 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. |
Implication des structures de jeunesse dans la prise de décision en Côte d’Ivoire – Parlement jeunesse et Conseil National jeunesse Seeking political inclusion through justice : Lowering the voting age in Canada |
Marie Louise Doré Emily Chan |
Simultaneous translation available |
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| Friday, June 30, 2023 | ||||
| Schedule | Activity | Speakers | Language | |
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9:00 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. (AST) |
Parallel workshops: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the rights to participation overview |
Christian Whalen & Gavin Kotze |
Choice : FRENCH or ENGLISH |
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9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. |
Opening conference - Title to be determined |
Tara Collins + 1 co-panelist to be determined |
Simultaneous translation available |
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10:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. |
Youth led community action projects for diversity and inclusion : Scaling out, deep and up? |
Natasha Blanchet Cohen, Amy Cooper, Geneviève Grégoire-Labrecque, Angie Mapara-Osachoff |
Simultaneous translation available |
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10:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. |
Break |
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11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. |
ACT2gether : An introduction to ACT2gether and tools used in the We are here toolbox Overview of the Nova Scotia Youth Summit and Nova Scotia Ombudsman Youth Council |
Darren Bird Kenzie Kozera |
Simultaneous translation available |
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11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. |
UNICEF empowering young people across Canada : Overview of the UNICEF Canada Youth Advocacy Program, Youth Activism Summit, Reimagine Playbook and U-Report Canada Amplifying the Voices and Perspectives of Young People in Child Intervention and Youth Justice Systems: Approaches and Challenges in Alberta |
Alexie Cossette Kirsten Wiebe, Devon Barber, Lee Bowers |
Simultaneous translation available |
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12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch Break |
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1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. |
Pibélé Golo : Une initiative visant à accroitre l’activisme et la participation des jeunes en Côte d’Ivoire OneChild : The first organization in the world empowering a child and youth led movement against child sexual exploitation |
Tenin Mafine Ouattara Cheryl Perera |
Simultaneous translation available | |
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1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. |
Youth participation in the International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership (ICCRP) Reasearch Project |
Tara Collins |
Simultaneous translation available | |
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2:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. |
Closing Ceremony |
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Simultaneous translation available |
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