A special seminar
Wed, 5th Sept, 4:20 – 5:30pm, Ella Latham Auditorium, Royal Children’s Hospital
Article 6 in the convention: Children have the right to live a full life. Governments should ensure that children survive and develop healthily.
Article 9 in the convention: Children should not be separated from their parents unless it is for their own good. For example, if a parent is mistreating or neglecting a child. Children whose parents have separated have the right to stay in contact with both parents, unless this might harm the child.
What is the right balance?
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Speaker: Magistrate Kay Macpherson Regional Co-ordinating Magistrate at the Broadmeadows Children’s Court and head of the Family Drug Treatment Court and the Koori Hearing Family Day Court (Marram – Ngala Ganbu) A New Approach In Keeping Children with Family – the Family Drug Treatment Court.“
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Expert commentator: Professor Mark Mercurio, M.D.,M.A. Dr. Mercurio is Chief of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and Director of the Ethics Program at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital. He is also Professor of Paediatrics and Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics at Yale School of Medicine, and a member of the medical faculty for the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study.
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Chairman: Professor Garry Warne MBBS FRACP AM of Professional Ethics (FASPE).
Secretary, RCH Alumni and Board member, Children’s Rights international.
– A session in the 10th National Paediatric Bioethics Conference. | |
– Learn more about the medico-legal aspects of Australia’s child protection policies. | |
– Australia’s obligations under the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. |
See Brocure and Registration Form:
Children’s rights to protection - from whom and from what?