Global Campus International Conference 2022
Global Campus International Conference
Mental Health - Children’s Perspectives on the Challenges and Ways Forward
Date: 31 January & 1 Februray 2022
Kathmandu School of Law and Global Campus of Human Rights would like to invite you to the first child-led and child-designed conference under the auspices of the Global Campus Annual International Conference (31 Janauary-1 February 2022). The conference is being coordinated by Kathmandu School of Law and is supported by UNICEF, the National Child Rights Council of the Government of Nepal as well as the National Child Protection Alliance of Nepal. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic the conference will be held exclusively online.
The principal objectives of the international coference are to maximise meaningful child participation, promote intergenerational dialogue and stimulate research on children’s rights. In this light, between the months of September 2021 and January 2022, the GC embarked on child-led consultations with children from all over the world with the main aim of identifying what they think are general and specific problems that affect children. At the conference, the children will be discussing their findings, as well as adopting a plan of action for the future.
In all, 7 languages were used to consult in 17 sessions with 111 children who come from 9 countries spread across 5 regions, notably Africa (South Africa), the Arab World (Lebanon), Asia (Nepal and India), Caucasus (Armenia), Europe (Italy), and Latin America (Brazil, Chile and Ecuador). The children then chose 17 among themslves to form the Global Campus – Children Leadership Team, who went into further action, assembling ideas, selecting the theme and planning activities for the international conference.
Each of the conference days has been divided into two sessions for reasons of convenience. On the 31 January, 2022, the children will be discussing among themselves what they identied as the most contemporary issue affecting them - the mental health of Children. On 1 February, 2022, they will be adopting a Plan of Action to follow up on the issues discussed.
Experts invited to attend the conference include: the UN Special Rapporteurs on the Rights to Education (Senegal), the UN Special Rapporteur for Mental and Physical Health (South Africa), the Special Representative of the UN Secetary General on Violence against Children, a right Livelihood Laureate and children’s rights activist, a member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, mental health experts and human rights defenders. The conference will be held online and will be live-streamed on the social media channels of Kathmandu School of Law and shared by the Global Campus and other partners.
The registrations can be done HERE.