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CHIFA profile: Tony Waterston is a retired consultant paediatrician who worked mainly in the community in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He spent 6 years working in Zambia and Zimbabwe and directed the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Diploma in Palestinian Child Health teaching programme in the occupied Palestinian territories. He was an Editor of the Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and is on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Social Pediatrics. His academic interests are child poverty, advocacy for child health and children's rights. He is currently the lead moderator of CHIFA (HIFA's sister forum on child health and rights). He is also a member of the HIFA Steering Group.
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Dear colleagues and friends, please join us for the fourth and final session of our Seminar Series on Identifying and Responding to the Torture of Children. This final session will provide an opportunity to hear from a panel of experts and discuss strategies to prevent and mitigate the torture of children.
Also, if you can, please send this announcement to your colleagues. Remember that you have to register for each of the session.
Jeff Goldhagen
https://mailchi.mp/ispcan.org/ispcan-module-4-identifying-and-responding...
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IDENTIFYING & RESPONDING TO THE TORTURE OF CHILDREN:
A 4-PART SERIES
Module 4: Advocating Against the Cruel, Inhuman & Demeaning
Violence & Torture Against Children
February 22
10:00-11:30 a.m. EST (New York) / 4:00-5:30 p.m. CET (Geneva)
In this final module of our training series, Identifying & Responding to the Torture of Children, we invite practitioners, academics, and policymakers of all disciplines to join us for a panel discussion with experts from key international organizations that will focus on:
* Identifying past current and current efforts to advance the rights of children to be free of all forms of violence
* Identifying key stakeholders that must be involved in establishing a coordinated, sustained global initiative to stop the cruel, inhuman, and demeaning violence and torture of children
* Defining the organizational and support structures needed
* Outlining next steps to mobilize a response
You do not need to have attended previous modules to attend. You can watch Modules 1, 2, and 3 (not for credit) HERE<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fispcan....
FEATURED PANELISTS
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Manfred Nowak, JD, is Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice, Professor of International Human Rights at Vienna University, and Director of the Vienna Master of Arts in Human Rights. He previously served as UN Expert on enforced disappearances, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Judge at the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Vice Chair of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency. In 2016 he was appointed Independent Expert leading the United Nations (UN) Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty.
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Erica Hall, JD, Policy Manager & Strategic Advisor for World Vision UK, is a lawyer and advocacy expert specializing in child protection, gender-based violence, and international criminal law. For nearly 20 years, she has worked for NGOs and the UN on policy and programming across Africa, Central Asia and Eastern Europe.
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Daniel Martinez Garcia, MD, MPH, is the paediatric advisor in the Medical Department of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a core member of MSF’s International Paediatric Working Group, which oversees all policies and guidelines regarding paediatric care in MSF projects worldwide.
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Ayesha Kadir, MD, MPH, is Senior Humanitarian Health Lead at Save the Children UK and has consulted globally in pediatrics, public health, and migrant health for Médecins Sans Frontières, WHO, and other organizations.
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Duarte Nuno Vieira is Full-Professor of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences and Medical Law at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, and works actively in the field of human rights, as member of the Forensic Expert Group of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims, Forensic Adviser of the International Committee of Red Cross and Temporary Forensic Consultant of the UN High Commissioner of Humans Rights.
REGISTER HERE https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvcOqoqzMrGdVkFMaaK1myzV4RpGN...
