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WHO WILL SPEAK FOR THE CHILD EVENT in New York on Monday, December 7th, co-sponsored by PEN's Children's Book Committee
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From: fran manushkin <franm_at_nyc.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:21:33 -0500
12/7/09 Who Will Speak for the Child? Human Rights at Home and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
When: Monday, December 7, 2009 Where: NYU Law School: Tishman Auditorium, 40 Washington Sq. South, New York City What time: 6:30–8:30 p.m.
With Nadine Strossen, Laura W. Murphy, Walter Dean Myers,Jonathan Todres, Deborah Ellis, and Uzodinma Iweala; remarks by author Susan Kuklin, of PEN’s Children’s Book Committee
This event is free and open to the public. Please registerhere.
Co-sponsored by PEN's Children's Book Committee, the American Constitution Society for Law & Policy, and NYU's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.
Roughly a year ago, the American Constitution Society for Law & Policy
(ACS) published Catherine Powell's Human Rights at Home: A Domestic Policy Blueprint for the New Administration. In this plan for reaffirming and implementing the U.S. commitment to human rights, many
recommendations were made, including a call for “the ratification, accompanied by fully adequate implementing legislation, of important human rights treaties to which the United States is not yet a party.”
One of the treaties mentioned by name is the Convention on the Rights
of the Child (CRC). The United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the CRC in 1989 and it was instituted as international law in
1990. As the 20th anniversary of its U.N. adoption passes, the U.S. and Somalia remain the only two nations party to the U.N. that have not ratified this document.
In their vulnerability and lack of political power, children occupy a
unique status in our society and, arguably, are most in need of safeguards to ensure their protection. Acknowledging these realities,
the CRC was intended to be a comprehensive, legally-binding human rights treaty for the protection of children irrespective of national
boundaries. What may be done to build momentum for CRC ratification? What role can lawyers and policymakers play? What role can writers and
the arts play? In the legal and political struggle for human rights, writers have awakened the consciences of nations and reminded citizens
of the values that undergird rights, a core belief of PEN American Center. This panel will bring together writers, legal scholars, and advocates for an evening of law and literature.
The panel features:
• Moderator, Nadine Strossen, Professor of Law, New York Law School • Laura W. Murphy, President, Laura Murphy & Associates, LLC • Walter Dean Myers, award-winning author of Dope Sick, Amiri & Odette, and Sunrise Over Fallujah • Jonathan Todres, Associate Professor, Georgia State University Law
School • Deborah Ellis, author of the Breadwinner trilogy • Uzodinma Iweala, author of Beasts of No Nation
The panel begins promptly at 6:30 and ends at 7:45 p.m., followed by a
wine and cheese reception.
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12/7/09 Who Will Speak for the Child? Human Rights at Home and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
When: Monday, December 7, 2009 Where: NYU Law School: Tishman Auditorium, 40 Washington Sq. South, New York City What time: 6:30–8:30 p.m.
With Nadine Strossen, Laura W. Murphy, Walter Dean Myers,Jonathan Todres, Deborah Ellis, and Uzodinma Iweala; remarks by author Susan Kuklin, of PEN’s Children’s Book Committee
This event is free and open to the public. Please registerhere.
Co-sponsored by PEN's Children's Book Committee, the American Constitution Society for Law & Policy, and NYU's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.
Roughly a year ago, the American Constitution Society for Law & Policy
(ACS) published Catherine Powell's Human Rights at Home: A Domestic Policy Blueprint for the New Administration. In this plan for reaffirming and implementing the U.S. commitment to human rights, many
recommendations were made, including a call for “the ratification, accompanied by fully adequate implementing legislation, of important human rights treaties to which the United States is not yet a party.”
One of the treaties mentioned by name is the Convention on the Rights
of the Child (CRC). The United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the CRC in 1989 and it was instituted as international law in
1990. As the 20th anniversary of its U.N. adoption passes, the U.S. and Somalia remain the only two nations party to the U.N. that have not ratified this document.
In their vulnerability and lack of political power, children occupy a
unique status in our society and, arguably, are most in need of safeguards to ensure their protection. Acknowledging these realities,
the CRC was intended to be a comprehensive, legally-binding human rights treaty for the protection of children irrespective of national
boundaries. What may be done to build momentum for CRC ratification? What role can lawyers and policymakers play? What role can writers and
the arts play? In the legal and political struggle for human rights, writers have awakened the consciences of nations and reminded citizens
of the values that undergird rights, a core belief of PEN American Center. This panel will bring together writers, legal scholars, and advocates for an evening of law and literature.
The panel features:
• Moderator, Nadine Strossen, Professor of Law, New York Law School • Laura W. Murphy, President, Laura Murphy & Associates, LLC • Walter Dean Myers, award-winning author of Dope Sick, Amiri & Odette, and Sunrise Over Fallujah • Jonathan Todres, Associate Professor, Georgia State University Law
School • Deborah Ellis, author of the Breadwinner trilogy • Uzodinma Iweala, author of Beasts of No Nation
The panel begins promptly at 6:30 and ends at 7:45 p.m., followed by a
wine and cheese reception.
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