Uitnodiging: “Protecting Children in and out of Emergencies”

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INVITATION

The Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation and UNICEF are honoured to invite you at the event

PROTECTING CHILDREN IN AND OUT OF EMERGENCIES:

10th Anniversary Commemoration of the Entry into Force of the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child

  27 February, 2:00 p. m. – 6:00 p. m.
Egmont Palace, Place du Petit Sablon 8, Brussels, Belgium

 

AGENDA

Welcome (2:00 p. m.) Paul Magnette, Minister for Development Cooperation, Belgium

Opening statement Her Royal Highness, Princess Mathilde of Belgium

Introduction Paul Magnette, Minister for Development Cooperation, Belgium

Screening of testimony Ms Grace Akallo, Network of Young People Affected by War (NYPAW) and United Africans for Women and Children Rights (UAWCR)

Panel (2:45 p. m.)
Moderator: Peter Moors, Director-General for Development Cooperation, Belgium

• Ms Johanna Brandt, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF
• Ms Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
• Ms Marta Santos Pais, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children

Question & Answer period (4:00 p. m.)

Reception (5:00 p. m. – 6:00 p. m.)

Translation EN-FR-NDL