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4th World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights, Cape Town, South Africa, 20 – 23 March 2005
In March 2005 in Cape Town, South Africa approximately 700 judges, lawyers and other professionals committed to children’s rights gathered at the 4th World Congress on Family Law and Children's Rights. The venue was the Cape Town International Convention Centre. This was the fourth such meeting following the inaugural Congress in Sydney, Australia in 1993; the second in San Francsico, USA in 1997; and the third in Bath, England in 2001. It marked the 15th anniversary of the most widely...
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International Conference on Child Labour and Child Exploitation was held on Sunday 3rd - Tuesday 5th August 2008, Cairns, Australia.
The International Conference evaluated the progress and achievements made in relation to the eradication of the worst forms of child labour and will explore the challenges ahead in securing rights for children in the 21st century and meeting the UN Millennium Goals by 2015. The Conference reflected on whether the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), as defined by the ILO in Forms of Child Labour Convention No.182...
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5th World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights, World Trade and Convention Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 23-26 August 2009
RESOLUTIONS Resolution 1 Member states should be encouraged to examine whether they might decriminalise parental abduction so as to remove any impediment to the prompt return of the child. Resolution 2 There are provisions in the Brussels II (bis) that are capable of ensuring the return of an abducted child in circumstances where the Hague Convention would not result in such an order. The Hague Conference should be asked to examine whether the provisions of the relevant European regulations could...
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