‘Do We Cherish All Our Children Equally?’

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Thursday September 28, 2006 21:05 by Labour Equality - ‘Do We Cherish All Our Children Equally?’

"Labour Equality" will hold an Open Day Seminar entitled ‘Do We Cherish All Our Children Equally?’ on Sat 30th September 11 am in the Teachers’ Club, 36 Parnell Square, Dublin 2

Labour Equality Open Day Seminar
‘Do We Cherish All Our Children Equally?’
Sat 30th September 11 am
Teachers’ Club, 36 Parnell Square, Dublin 2

Does our constitution give our children equal protection?

Where are the gaps?

Why do we have child poverty?

How about children and education?

What happens to our immigrant children?

What if you are here but they want you or your family to leave?

Where do you stand when you have two Dads? Or two Mums?

Programme

10.30am Registration
11.00am – 1pm Speakers :
* Joe Costello TD : Opening Address
* Jillian van Turnhout, CEO Children’s Rights Alliance
‘Is Our Constitution Good Enough for Our Children?’
* June Tinsley Barnardos
‘Barnardos Advocacy Campaign – the Equality Perspective’
* Kerry O’Leary CADIC Coalition and
* Judy Irwin Refugee Information Service Galway, CADIC Coalition
‘Separated Families of Irish Children’
* Joan O’Connell KAL Initiative
‘The KAL Case in Context’

Questions & Answers

1pm Light Lunch

2pm Workshops
1. Labour LGBT ‘Rhetoric & Reality’

2. Labour Disability (optional workshop) ‘Barcelona Declaration’

3. Labour Diversity Emer Nowlan : ‘Teaching in a Vacuum : BilingualChildren in Dublin Schools’

4. Poverty and Inequality John Baker, Equality Studies, UCD ‘Poverty and Inequality’

3pm Plenary

4pm Closing