Speakers
[ Other Speakers | Conference moderators ]
Please find below speeches and presentations from the conference
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ROBERTA ANGELILLI |
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KATE BLEWETT Journalist, founder of TBACT - the Campaign for Bulgaria's Abandoned Children [bio] |
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BERNARD BOETON |
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ILZE BRANDS KEHRIS Chairperson of the Management Board, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) [bio] [speech] |
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AUREL CIOBANU-DORDEA |
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MAUD DE BOER-BUQUICCHIO Deputy Secretary General, Council of Europe [bio] [speech] |
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STEFAAN DE CLERCK |
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BERNARD DE VOS General Delegate of the French Community for the Rights of the Child, Belgium [bio] |
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KINGA GÁL |
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HILDE F. JOHNSON Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF [bio] [speech] |
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MORTEN KJAERUM |
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YANGHEE LEE Chair of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, United Nations [bio] [speech] |
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MICAELA NAVARRO GARZON |
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IMRE NYITRAI Deputy State Secretary, Ministry of National Resources, Hungary [bio] |
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ANN POWER |
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VIVIANE REDING Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship [bio] [speech] |
Other Speakers
- Arnoldas Abramavicius, Member of the European Union Committee of the Regions and Mayor of Zarasai District Municipality, Lithuania
- Peter Adriaenssens, child psychiatrist, director of the Confidentiality Centre Leuven, Belgium
- Malin Ekman Aldén, Deputy Director, Division for social services, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, governmental focal point on the Convention on the Rights of Person with Disabilities (CRPD), Sweden [PRESENTATION]
- Alexandros Anastasiou, Head of Social Service, Council of Refugees, Greece [PRESENTATION]
- Nicole Cochet, Magistrate. Vice-Chair of the European Committee on Legal Cooperation (CDCJ) - Council of Europe Observer at the Ad hoc Committee on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (CAHVIO), France [PRESENTATION]
- Sarah D’Hondt, President, the National Commission for Children’s Rights, Belgium
- Liedewij de Ruijter de Wildt, legal advisor, Nidos foundation, The Netherlands [PRESENTATION]
- Jozef de Witte, Director of Center for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism, Belgium.
- Ioannis Dimitrakopoulos, Head of Department Equality and Citizen’s Rights, FRA [PRESENTATION]
- Ambassador Irma Ertman, Permanent Representative of Finland to the Council of Europe Thematic coordination on Children, Council of Europe, Committee of Ministers.
- Ruth Farrugia, Advocate and Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Laws, University off Malta, member of the Council of Europe Group of specialists on Child-Friendly Justice, Malta [PRESENTATION]
- Cédric Foussard, Director, International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO)
- Susan Gallagher, Deputy Chief Executive, Victim Support Scotland, United Kingdom [PRESENTATION]
- Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings.
- Joanna Goodey, Head of Department Freedoms and Justice, FRA [PRESENTATION]
- Bragi Gudbrandsson, Director General, Government Agency for Child Protection, Iceland [PRESENTATION]
- Ro Kartodirdjo, manager of the “Safety House”, City of Breda, The Netherlands [PRESENTATION]
- Maria Keller-Hamela,Director, Nobody’s Children Foundation, Poland [PRESENTATION]
- Theresa Kilbane, Senior Advisor, Child Protection, UNICEF
- Ursula Kilkelly, Senior Lecturer at the Law Faculty, University College Cork andexpert consultant for the consultation on the Council of Europe child-friendly justice guidelines, Ireland [PRESENTATION]
- Kasia Lach, DG Home Affairs, European Commission
- Camille Latimer, Human Rights Officer, Inclusion Europe, Czech Republic [PRESENTATION]
- Patricia Lewsley, Northern Ireland Commissioner for children and Young People Chair of the European Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC), United Kingdom [PRESENTATION]
- Cecilia Ljung, Public Health Strategy Officer, municipalities of Karlskoga and Degerfors, Sweden [PRESENTATION]
- Marjo Mäkelä, Senior Adviser, Immigration Service, Finland [PRESENTATION]
- Maria Amor Martin Estebanez, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
- Jan Pfeiffer, Lumos, Chair of the Ad Hoc Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community – based care
- Dainius Pūras, Member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Head and Associate Professor, Centre of Child Psychiatry and Social Pediatrics, Vilnius University, Lithuania [PRESENTATION]
- Marta Santos Pais, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Violence against Children.
- Till Starke, Family Judge at District Court, Federal Ministry of Justice, Germany [PRESENTATION]
- Gerald Tatzgern, Head of Central Service for Combating Human Smuggling/Human Trafficking, Criminal Intelligence Service, Federal Ministry of Interior, Austria [PRESENTATION]
- Blanche Tax, Senior Policy Officer, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [PRESENTATION]
- Julie Taylor, Head of Strategy and Development - Children in High Risk Families, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), United Kingdom [PRESENTATION]
- Diana-Florentina Tudorache, Council of Europe Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, specialised police officer/psychologist in the Romanian National Agency against Trafficking in Persons, Romania [PRESENTATION]
- Justice Renate Winter, former President of the International Association of Youth and Family Judges and Magistrates, Austria. Judge
Conference moderators
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ANDREA MOTT |
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SHIRIN WHEELER [bio] |


















