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Forum Asia, Child Rights Coalition Asia, and the ASEAN Youth Forum are co-organizing an online discussion entitled “Children and Youth During COVID-19: Their Rights and as Human Rights Defenders” that will be held on 29 April, 2:00-4:00 PM (GMT+7).
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Description
The current situation amid the COVID-19 pandemic poses challenges to adult human rights activists in different ways. At the same time, the lack of support for children and youth as human rights defenders threatens the future of activism. This webinar will focus on the experiences of youth and children, particularly around the following questions:
1) What are the challenges faced by children and youth human rights defenders?
2) With the pandemic, how are children and youth human rights defenders innovating to continue their activism?
3) What support is needed by children and youth human rights defenders?
4) What are the key recommendations to the ASEAN sectoral bodies, such as the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC), in upholding the rights of children and youth human rights defenders?
5) How can collaboration among children, youth, civil society, and government be strengthened?
Panelists
1. Roshni Basu, Regional Advisor on Adolescent Development & Participation, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office
2. Ruthra Mary Ramachandran, Young Scholar-Activist of Southeast Asian Studies in Universitas Malaya, Malaysia
3. Astried Permata, General Coordinator of Pamflet, Indonesia
4. Mueda Nawanat, Youth Human Rights Defender, Thailand
Closing remarks
1. H.E. Yuyum Fhahni Paryani, Indonesia’s Representative on Children’s Rights to the ACWC
2. U.N. Special Envoy on Youth*
*to be confirmed
Moderator
Hazel Bitaña, Program Manager, Child Rights Coalition Asia
Kindly disseminate among your colleagues, partners, and networks. This webinar is part of the FORUM-ASIA, SHAPE-SEA, and Solidarity for ASEAN Peoples’ Advocacy (SAPA) Webinar Series: The Status of Human Rights in the time of COVID-19 Pandemic in Southeast Asia.
Further information, contact: ea-asean@forum-asia.org
About the Organizers
ASEAN Youth Forum
The ASEAN Youth Forum (AYF) is a movement that represents and fights for the young people in ASEAN to voice out their concerns and strategies for ways to achieve a better ASEAN. AYF has been a platform of the youth in the ASEAN to raise their voice and claim for their rights for a sustainable, inclusive, people-centred, and youth-driven regional community. The network aims to institutionalise and establish its national chapters to focus the engagement on important and timely local issues affecting the youth, and consolidate policy proposal and agenda to put forward to the relevant ASEAN offices.
CRC Asia
Child Rights Coalition Asia (CRC Asia) is a network of child rights organisations working together to be a strong voice for and with children in the region. CRC Asia has a mission to be a strong voice for child rights by leading in the strengthening of child rights movements, promoting innovative approaches, and advocating better policies for and with children in the region.
FORUM-ASIA
The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) works to promote and protect human rights, including the right to development, through collaboration and cooperation among human rights organisations and defenders in Asia and beyond. FORUM-ASIA is a network of 81 members in 21 countries, as of September 2018, across Asia. It was founded in 1991 in Manila, the Philippines. Its Regional Secretariat was established in Bangkok, Thailand in 1992. Since then, offices have been opened in Geneva, Jakarta, and Kathmandu.
