The Children’s Rights Research Symposium was a collaboration between UCC School of Law and the Children’s Rights European Academic Network (CREAN).

Held at UCC over two days, the symposium hosted panel discussions on topics including children’s participation; children’s rights in education; roles and responsibilities in protecting children from violence; youth justice; and children and conflict.

This year’s event, the first since the start of the pandemic, focussed on the theme “children’s rights in the times of challenge/crisis”.

Adjunct Professor Gerison Lansdown of UCC School of Law opened the event by delivering a key-note speech on “Monitoring Children’s Participation”.