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RESERVEZ LA DATE:\u00a016 MAI 2023 | 13H \u00c0 16H CET<\/strong><\/p>\n La famille est unanimement reconnue comme la pierre angulaire de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 assurant \u00ab la croissance et le bien-\u00eatre de tous ses membres et en particulier des enfants\u00a0\u00bb, qui a \u00ab\u00a0droit \u00e0 la protection de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 et de l’\u00c9tat\u00a0\u00bb (Convention relative aux droits de l’enfant (CDE), Pr\u00e9ambule\u00a0; D\u00e9claration universelle des droits de l’homme de 1948, Art. 16(3)).<\/p>\n Dans le cadre des festivit\u00e9s qui entourent la Journ\u00e9e internationale de la famille – c\u00e9l\u00e9br\u00e9e chaque ann\u00e9e le 15 mai depuis la r\u00e9solution de l’AGNU de 1993 – Child Identity Protection (CHIP) et ses partenaires organisent un symposium en ligne sur l’importance de l’identit\u00e9 familiale de l’enfant. L’\u00e9v\u00e9nement s’appuie sur les initiatives visant \u00e0 promouvoir l’enregistrement des naissances et la nationalit\u00e9, en se concentrant sur les relations familiales, \u00e9l\u00e9ment crucial de l’identit\u00e9 de l’enfant. Ce symposium vient compl\u00e9ter les efforts d\u00e9ploy\u00e9s au sein de l’ONU et des m\u00e9canismes r\u00e9gionaux pour assurer la pr\u00e9servation et la restauration de l’identit\u00e9 de chaque enfant, conform\u00e9ment aux Arts.7-8 de la CDE et aux ODD 16.9 et 16.3.<\/p>\n Malgr\u00e9 ces normes et initiatives internationales, des millions d’enfants ont \u00e9t\u00e9 et sont inutilement s\u00e9par\u00e9s de leur famille. Les liens entre les parents biologiques et les enfants peuvent \u00eatre rompus, par exemple lorsqu’ils sont abandonn\u00e9s, plac\u00e9s dans des structures de prise en charge alternative, adopt\u00e9s, n\u00e9s par le biais d’une m\u00e8re porteuse, vendus et\/ou trafiqu\u00e9s, d\u00e9plac\u00e9s ou en situation de migration, ou lorsqu’un conflit ou une catastrophe naturelle survient. En outre, les syst\u00e8mes peuvent \u00eatre con\u00e7us pour dissimuler des informations sur les origines de l’enfant, y compris familiales. Ces situations peuvent conduire \u00e0 une privation d’identit\u00e9 de l\u2019enfant et nomment de ses relations familiales avec de lourdes cons\u00e9quences au point de vue juridique, psychosocial et m\u00e9dical. La perte d’identit\u00e9 peut \u00e9galement cr\u00e9er des obstacles \u00e0 l’acc\u00e8s des enfants \u00e0 d’autres droits tels que l’\u00e9ducation, la sant\u00e9, les droits \u00e9conomiques, sociaux et culturels.<\/p>\n Le symposium explore le droit d’avoir ses relations familiales l\u00e9galement \u00e9tablies ou reconnues, en tant que droit autonome. Ce droit est important, car chaque personne a une histoire familiale – g\u00e9n\u00e9tique, gestationnelle, sociale et l\u00e9gale – qui contribue \u00e0 son identit\u00e9 et \u00e0 ses origines. Il s’agit en outre de savoir quels m\u00e9canismes devraient \u00eatre mis en place pour mieux pr\u00e9server tous les \u00e9l\u00e9ments de l’identit\u00e9 familiale de l\u2019enfant et garantir leur r\u00e9tablissement, en cas de lacunes ou de falsification.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Avis de non-responsabilit\u00e9 de l’auditoire et des participants” tab_id=”1715353600901-2ad4811d-7104″][vc_column_text]Nos orateurs parleront lentement – si c’est trop rapide, veuillez nous le faire savoir en envoyant un commentaire dans les questions-r\u00e9ponses Zoom. La session est enregistr\u00e9e Sur la sauvegarde et l’\u00e9tiquette : Les participants peuvent se renommer et utiliser des alias \u00e0 la place. Veuillez toujours \u00eatre respectueux lorsque vous parlez et donnez des commentaires ou des questions. 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Traduit avec www.DeepL.com\/Translator (version gratuite)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Moderator :<\/strong> Mia Dambach (Child Identity Protection, Executive Director)[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion c_icon=”triangle” c_position=”right” active_section=”1″ collapsible_all=”true” el_class=”presentations”][vc_tta_section title=”L’horaire d\u00e9taill\u00e9 sera bient\u00f4t publi\u00e9 ici” tab_id=”1715408077785-aaacfd7c-c8d8″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Speakers coming from all regions with multi-disciplinary backgrounds focusing on a range of issues include :<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][vc_column][vc_column_text]Flyer<\/a> Timesheet<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1715320948919{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1715320959069{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”8127″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1715321662192{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]Christina Baglietto<\/span><\/strong><\/span> [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1715320959069{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”8328″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1715411301643{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]Eduardo Rezende Melo<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Premier fran\u00e7ais \u00e0 avoir retrouv\u00e9 le donneur \u00e0 l’origine de sa\u00a0\u00a0 conception gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 un test ADN r\u00e9cr\u00e9atif en septembre 2017[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”8322″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1715411346498{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]Audrey Kermalvezen<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Premi\u00e8re personne con\u00e7ue par don de gam\u00e8tes \u00e0 avoir saisi la justice en 2010 pour acc\u00e9der \u00e0 ses origines personnelles.\u00a0Apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9bout\u00e9e en 2015 par le Conseil d\u2019\u00c9tat, elle a saisi la Cour europ\u00e9enne des droits de l’homme. Sa requ\u00eate est actuellement en cours d’examen.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”8343″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1715411365377{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]Philippe Lortie<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Before joining the HCCH, from 1991 to 2001 Philippe Lortie was Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice of Canada. In that capacity, he acted as Head of Canadian delegations to the HCCH, Unidroit and UNCITRAL. Philippe Lortie is a member of the Qu\u00e9bec Bar since 1991 and holds degrees in Civil Law (LL.L.) and Common Law (LL.B.), both from the University of Ottawa. He also holds a Master’s degree (LL.M.) in international law from the same university for which he received (ex aequo<\/em>) the Canadian Council on International Law Sylvie Gravel Prize for best Master’s thesis in international law in Canada. Finally, he holds a degree in Business Administration (B.A.A.) from the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes Commerciales (HEC) de Montr\u00e9al<\/em>.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1715320959069{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”8325″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1715411882076{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]Aurelia<\/span><\/strong><\/span> She earned her undergraduate and law degrees from UP and her LL.M. from Harvard Law School (HLS). She was appointed as Visiting Scholar and later, Research Fellow in the East Asia Legal Studies Program of the HLS. She attended The Hague Academy of International Law on a scholarship and subsequently lectured in its External Programme. She was likewise a Packard \u2013Gates Fellow in University of California Sta. Cruz where she received the Gender Equity Award.<\/span><\/p>\n She was a visiting lecturer at Leiden University Law School, The Netherlands teaching in the Advanced Masterclass in International Human Rights Law and the Frontiers of Children\u2019s Rights Summer School in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n Prof. Aguiling-Pangalangan was Amicus curiae appointed by the Philippine Supreme Court in Aquino v. Aquino on the successional rights of non-marital children (2019) and was Counsel in Imbong v. Executive Secretary, representing Former Department of Health Secretaries in defense of the constitutionality of the Reproductive Health Law (2014). Her expertise was recognized by the Philippine Department of Social Welfare and Development which asked her to draft the Philippine State Periodic Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, 2017-2018 and engaged her services for the Assessment of Alternative Parental Care Programs in the Philippines that led to the enacted of a new law on Alternative Child care in 2022, and by the Department of Justice (DOJ) where she led the drafting of the DOJ handbook \u201cProtecting Filipino Children from Abuse, Exploitation and Violence: A Comprehensive Program on Child Protection\u201d in 2019..<\/span><\/p>\n She was s a member of the HCCH Experts\u2019 Group on Parentage and Surrogacy for six years and was designated Philippine expert to HCCH working groups on various Hague child protection conventions and special commissions.<\/span><\/p>\n She is the President of the Philippine Society of International Law, member of the Executive Council of the Asian Society of International Law and Editorial Board member of the Philippine Yearbook of International Law. 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\nSpeaker[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion c_icon=”triangle” c_position=”right” active_section=”99″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1714404628742{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”Biography” tab_id=”1715364664172-94645ff5-03c7″][vc_column_text]Has over 15 years of experience in alternative care and adoption. She has experience working in the context of legislative, political, institutional and practical reform in these areas. In Guatemala, she contributed to the implementation of new national legislation on adoption and alternative care and international standards, provided training, and developed standard operating procedures. Likewise, she has provided training and technical support in the reforms of these systems across the globe. In the last decade, she has been a consultant for various UNICEF offices, International Social Service, the Hague Conference on Private International Law, as well as the Latin American Foster Care Network.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”8230″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1715408734683{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]Laura Mart\u00ednez-Mora<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nSpeaker[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion c_icon=”triangle” c_position=”right” active_section=”99″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1714404628742{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”Biography” tab_id=”1714411811039-d242ff40-94df”][vc_column_text]Works as a Secretary (Lawyer) at the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH). She is responsible for the post-Convention work in relation to the HCCH 1993 Convention on Child Protection and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, as well as the Parentage \/ Surrogacy project. Laura has also worked on children\u2019s issues at the International Social Service (Switzerland); UNICEF (Chile); the European Commission (Belgium) and the Council of Europe (France). She received her law degree from the University of Valencia (Spain), a Master of Laws (LL.M) in International Law with a specialisation in child\u2019s rights (University of London, UK), and a Diploma in Child Protection and Juvenile Justice (University Diego Portales, Chile).<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”6538″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1715408752341{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]Olga Khazova<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nSpeaker[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion c_icon=”triangle” c_position=”right” active_section=”99″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1714404609749{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”Biography” tab_id=”1714411810216-f437112c-ab9d”][vc_column_text]Prof. Olga Khazova, member of the UN CRC Committee (2013-2021), is currently affiliated with the Moscow School of Social & Economic Sciences and the National Research University \u201cHigher School of Economics\u201d (Moscow). Until 2018, for more than 30 years, Olga had been working at the Institute of State & Law within Russian Academy of Sciences. She holds Ph.D. from that Institute and LL.M. from Cornell University Law School (USA). The main field of her expertise is connected with international family law and child law. Apart from teaching, Olga serves as a consultant on matters related to children\u2019s rights and family law, including human reproduction issues. Olga is the author of Marriage and Divorce in Western Family Law, as well as of numerous scholarly articles published in Russia and abroad. She is a Vice-President of the International Society of Family Law (ISFL).<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”6475″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1715354534999{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]Mia Dambach<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nModerator[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion c_icon=”triangle” c_position=”right” active_section=”99″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1714404620072{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”Biography” tab_id=”1714411810645-d23c6167-69c5″][vc_column_text]Is a human rights advocate with 20 years\u2019 experience of working on children\u2019s rights, starting her career as a children\u2019s lawyer in Australia. As the Executive Director she brings with her leadership, project management and research skills to ensure that children\u2019s identity rights are better protected worldwide. She has provided technical support, mostly on behalf of UNICEF, through evaluation missions in over 20 countries focusing on alternative care, adoption, and surrogacy. With many years of further experience and a family background from Australia, the Philippines, and Switzerland, she understands the importance of children having access to their origins.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1715320959069{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”8340″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1715410938662{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]Ronaldah Lerato Karabo Ozah<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nSpeaker[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion c_icon=”triangle” c_position=”right” active_section=”99″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1714404628742{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”Biography” tab_id=”1714411843074-8336c1ec-ec8e”][vc_column_text]Karabo Ozah is the Director at the Centre for Child and a Lecturer in the Department of Private Law of the University of Pretoria in South Africa. The Centre for Child Law is an organisation that protects and promotes children\u2019s rights through research, advocacy and strategic litigation. Karabo has contributed to the work of the Centre, including litigation successes in the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court of Appeal and the High Courts. Karabo holds an LLB; a Certificate in Advanced Labour Law; LLM in Child Law (cum laude) and LLM (Constitutional and Administrative Law) from the University of Pretoria. She serves on the Advisory Committee of the South African Law Reform Commission’s Project 100D on Care of and Contact with Children (incorporating Family Dispute Resolution). Karabo is also a member of the Hague Expert Group on International Parentage and Surrogacy that is tasked with researching the possibility of a Hague treaty to regulate international parentage and surrogacy. Recently, Karabo chaired the Special Commission of the Hague Conference on Private International Law focusing on Inter-country Adoptions in 2022.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”8334″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1715411000871{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]Marilyn Freeman<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nSpeaker[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion c_icon=”triangle” c_position=”right” active_section=”99″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1714404628742{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”Biography” tab_id=”1715321784782-f9525962-8f2c”][vc_column_text]Marilyn is Co-Director of the International Centre for Family Law, Policy and Practice (ICFLPP), Principal Research Fellow at The Westminster Law School, London, and chairperson of the International Association of Child Law Researchers (IACLaR). She is widely acknowledged as a leading expert in the area of international child abduction and international children\u2019s law, and publishes widely in her areas of expertise. Her current research focuses on the issue of Identity for Children and Young People; Domestic Violence and International Child Abduction; and Child-Friendly Resources relating to International Child Abduction. She holds a door tenancy at 4PB, a specialist Family Law set of barristers\u2019 chambers in London, and qualified as a Family Mediator, trained to undertake direct consultation with children, cases involving international child abduction, and other international family disputes.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”8346″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1715411044290{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]Nicola Taylor<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nSpeaker[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion c_icon=”triangle” c_position=”right” active_section=”99″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1714404628742{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”Biography” tab_id=”1715321785003-ea58aebf-7548″][vc_column_text]Nicola specialises in child and family law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She is the Director of the Children\u2019s Issues Centre, has been admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand, and is a qualified mediator. She is Secretary of the International Association of Child Law Researchers (IACLaR). Nicola is a leading socio-legal researcher and has undertaken many studies with children, parents and professionals on family law and children\u2019s rights issues including post-separation care arrangements, relocation, international child abduction, children\u2019s views and participation, family dispute resolution, relationship property division and succession law. Her research findings have been invaluable in informing legislative, legal policy and professional practice developments within New Zealand and internationally.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”8352″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1715411085795{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]Katarina Trimmings<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nSpeaker[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion c_icon=”triangle” c_position=”right” active_section=”99″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1714404620072{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”Biography” tab_id=”1715321785260-d3a742f8-2d3a”][vc_column_text]Dr Katarina Trimmings<\/strong>\u00a0is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Aberdeen and the Director of the Aberdeen\u00a0Centre for Private International Law<\/a>. Her research interests fall within the area of Private International Law of Family Law, in particular international parental child abduction and the interface between Private International Law and Assisted Reproductive Technologies. She has published extensively on the topics of parental child abduction and cross-border surrogacy and is one of the authors of the 15th<\/sup>\u00a0edition of\u00a0Cheshire\u2019s Private International Law<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford University Press, 2017).<\/span><\/p>\n
\nSpeaker[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion c_icon=”triangle” c_position=”right” active_section=”99″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1714404609749{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”Biography” tab_id=”1715323775091-42023ddb-0ee1″][vc_column_text]Eduardo Rezende Melo is a Judge in Brazil, he holds a PhD in human rights (University of S\u00e3o Paulo), a master in philosophy (PUC-SP) and in children\u00b4s rights (University of Fribourg, Switzerland). He is the pedagogical coordinator on children\u00b4s rights of the S\u00e3o Paulo State School for Magistrates. He\u00b4s currently involved in a post-PhD study in Social Sciences (UNINOVA Lisbon, Portugal). He is also Editor in Chief of the Chronicle, the International Association of Youth and Family Judges and Magistrates (AIMJF)\u00b4s Journal, coordinating researches and organizing webinars on the Justices system and children\u00b4s rights.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”8319″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1715411325122{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]Arthur Kermalvezen<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
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\nSpeaker[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion c_icon=”triangle” c_position=”right” active_section=”99″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1714404628742{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”Biography” tab_id=”1715323775566-f132bb43-1f92″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n\n
\nSpeaker[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion c_icon=”triangle” c_position=”right” active_section=”99″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1714404620072{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”Biography” tab_id=”1715323775770-6447fb0c-1285″][vc_column_text]Philippe Lortie joined the Permanent Bureau of the HCCH in September 2001 as First Secretary. He is co-responsible for the International Child & Family Law Division. In addition to the HCCH 1961 Form of Wills<\/a>, 1970 Divorce<\/a>, 1980 Child Abduction<\/a> and 1996 Child Protection<\/a> Conventions, for which he is co-responsible, Philippe Lortie is solely responsible for the HCCH 2000 Protection of Adults<\/a> and 2007 Child Support<\/a> Conventions and the 2007 Protocol on the Law Applicable to Maintenance Obligations<\/a>. He also has overall responsibility for the International Hague Network of Judges<\/a> including Direct Judicial Communications<\/a>, the Judges\u2019 Newsletter<\/a> and e-Justice tools supporting Hague Conventions such as e-Country Profiles<\/a>, INCADAT<\/a> and iSupport<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nSpeaker[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion c_icon=”triangle” c_position=”right” active_section=”99″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1714404609749{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”Biography” tab_id=”1715411850542-32ef964e-e052″][vc_column_text]Aurelia is 17, home educated and the second of nine. She is a co-founder of Teen Advocacy. More recently, she has been involved as a peer researcher as part of a Youth Voices project with ATD in submitting evidence to the UN about human rights violation in the UK.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”8337″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1715411898593{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]Kaydence<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nSpeaker[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion c_icon=”triangle” c_position=”right” active_section=”99″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1714404609749{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”Biography” tab_id=”1715411850937-a5248220-98e2″][vc_column_text]Kaydence is 18, home educated and the eldest of nine. She is a Youth Ambassador for the End Child Poverty Coallition and co-founder of Teen Advocacy. She was also a peer researcher for our submission to the UN.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”8349″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1715411916393{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]Tiegan<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nSpeaker[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion c_icon=”triangle” c_position=”right” active_section=”99″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1714404628742{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”Biography” tab_id=”1715411851256-fc363768-5a40″][vc_column_text]Tiegan is a 21 year adoptee who is in her second year of university. She is a Youth Ambassador for the End Child Poverty Coallition and does various advocacy work around her experiences of adoption. She was also a peer researcher in gathering data to support our submission to the UN.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”8331″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1715411934828{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]Elizabeth Pangalangan<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nSpeaker[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion c_icon=”triangle” c_position=”right” active_section=”99″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1714404620072{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”Biography” tab_id=”1715411851575-3ba78f07-5938″][vc_column_text]Professor Elizabeth Aguiling-Pangalangan is a Full Professor at the University of the Philippines(UP) College of Law and is the Director of the UP Law Center Institute of Human Rights. She holds the Professorial Chair Holder, Roberto A. Sabido Professorial Chair in Law and Development at the UP College of Law as well as a Professorial Chair on Liberty and Prosperity from the Foundation of Liberty and Prosperity where she recently delivered a lectured entitled \u201cWhen Law and Technology Unbundles Traditional Identities (Adoption and Surrogacy).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\nSpeaker[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion c_icon=”triangle” c_position=”right” active_section=”99″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1714404609749{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”Biography” tab_id=”1715321784562-490bcc68-c98b”][vc_column_text]Velina Todorova<\/strong> is a Bulgarian lawyer (1981) and Ph.D. in Sociology of Law (1989), Associate Professor on Civil and Family Law at the Law Faculty, Plovdiv University and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She has an extensive experience in research and in law making in the areas of child rights protection, social protection and family law (1997 to date). Publishes nationally and internationally and is both expert (2001) and a member (2014-2019) to the Commission on the European Family Law. Member to the European Family Law Academic Network (FLEUR) since 2019. A founder of the Governmental Agency for Child Protection (2001). She has always combined her academic career with a strong activism as a member and supporter of various human rights initiatives and NGOs. A Deputy Minister of Justice (2011-13). Member to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (2017-2021, 2021-2025). <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”8316″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1715412231034{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]Aniruddha Kulkarni<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nSpeaker[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion c_icon=”triangle” c_position=”right” active_section=”99″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1714404628742{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”Biography” tab_id=”1715324176977-846c2eee-a0f2″][vc_column_text]As a Child Protection Specialist at the Programme Division, UNICEF Headquarters, New York, Aniruddha Kulkarni contributes to international policy and programme development on child protection systems, social service workforce for child protection, care reform, child labour, and coordinates UNICEF\u2019s protection work for . Aniruddha also works closely with and supports UNICEF\u2019s Regional Offices and Country Offices to set and implement the child protection agenda in these workstreams. Prior to joining the Headquarters in 2018, Aniruddha worked with UNICEF in Bhutan and India for over 11 years. Aniruddha has also worked for over four years as a researcher on child protection with the College of Social Work at the University of Mumbai, where he also graduated with a master\u2019s degree in social work in 2002.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"