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Una Children's Rights Learning Group takes part in seminar at University of Arizona, USA
The Children's Rights and Voices in Research, Policy and Program Planning Symposium, hosted by Arizona State University on 18 February 2009, brought together members of the Una Children's Rights Learning Group with graduate students, researchers, and leaders of state and community-based agencies focusing on children and child care.
Plenary panels focused on children's rights and participation in cross-cultural context and challenges in putting policies into practice. Smaller, more interactive sessions focused on cultural tensions and dimensions, children's rights in marginalized communities, rights issues for refugees including language rights, and foregrounding children's rights in policymaking. Presenters included both Learning Group members and local colleagues.
The conference was co-chaired by Professor Beth Blue Swadener and John Ng'asike, Ph.D. student in Early Childhood Education at Arizona State University (on leave from Kenyatta University, Kenya). The event also involved a number of doctoral students who chaired sessions and served as recorders. Ms. Mercy Musomi, co-Chair of the Una Children's Rights Learning Group also assisted in planning the Symposium.
Presenters included: Janette Habashi, Barbara Koech, Laura Lundy, Colette Murray, Mercy Musomi, Bekisizwe Ndimande, Nkidi Phatudi, Valerie Polakow, Kylie Smith and Beth Swadener (Learning Group members), and local presenters Dr. Doris Warriner (Arizona State University), Eman Yarrow (Refugee Services Manager, Arizona Office of Refugee Resettlement) and Susan Wilkins (Executive Director, Association for Supportive Child Care).