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The year 2023 marks the 12th anniversary of the International Summer Course on the Rights of the Child organized by the Continuing Education of the Université de Moncton in collaboration with the Office of the New Brunswick Child and Youth Advocate.
Each year since 2012, we have been able to adapt and reinvent the Summer Course on the Rights of the Cild to offer, even in times of pandemic, the opportunity for professionals in various fields of children's rights from across Canada and the world to come together and share their expertise and research topics. For the next few years, as we learned from the pandemic,we decided to offer a hybrid version of the course, both in person on the Moncton campus of the Université de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, and online via the Zoom platform.
Participating professionals and speakers will be able to discuss solutions and best practices to improve the International Convention on the Rights of the Child (ICRC). Each year, the faithful participants of the course have the opportunity to discuss in depth different articles of the ICRC. After a three-year focus on the right to education, 2023 will be an opportunity to discuss in depth the activism and civic participation of children and youth in the light of article 12 of the ICRC.
Over the past ten years, we have been honored to welcome distinguished speakers such as Claire Brisset, Najat Maalla M'jid, Jean Zermatten, Landon Pearson, Benoit Vankeirsbilck, Philip Jaffé, Rama Diouf, Tara Collins, Mona Paré, Gerison Lansdown, Theresa Casey and Jean-Bernard Marie to the course. We look forward to adding new keynote speakers to this list in 2023.
As a meeting place for experts on children's rights in Canada and the Francophonie, the International Summer Course on the Rights of the Child always gives a large place to the voice of children and youth.