UNU-MERIT: Seminar on the Children’s Right to be Heard on 25 September 2024 (in English and Spanish with simultaneous interpretation)

The United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) is organising a seminar online on the children’s right to be heard (incl. in cases of international child abduction) on 25 September 2024 from 14:00 to 16:00 CEST.

Participation is free of charge. For more information and access details, click here.

The programme is as follows:

14:00  Opening remarks
Marieke Hopman (Maastricht University)

14:05  Institutionalized adolescents and their right to be heard
Julieta Marotta (UNU-MERIT) & Laura Lora (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

14:25  Children in post-conflict peacebuilding and their right to be heard 
Lucy Opoka (Leiden University)

14:45  Internationally abducted children & their right to be heard 
Mayela Celis Aguilar (Maastricht University)

15:05  Family judges and the visibility of children in court
Alicia Taliercio (former Family Judge Prov. Buenos Aires)

15:25  Directors and the right of children to be heard
Natalia V. González García Cuerva (director of Hogar También son Nuestros)

15:45  Open dialogue
Moderator: Julieta Marotta (UNU-MERIT)

UNU-MERIT is a research and training institute of the United Nations University (UNU – headquarters in Tokyo and 13 institutes) which collaborates closely with Maastricht University.