It is 30 years since the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was signed, setting out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of the child.

Our panel of four international experts on children’s rights will share their reflections on the potential of the international children’s rights framework, followed by remarks from New Zealand’s Children’s Commissioner.

Chair:

Associate Professor Nessa Lynch, Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington

Panel:

Justice Vui Clarence Nelson, United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, Justice of the Supreme Court of Samoa

Professor Ursula Kilkelly, University College Cork, Ireland

Professor Laura Lundy, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland

Bruce Adamson, Children and Young People’s Commissioner, Scotland

Judge Andrew Becroft, Children’s Commissioner

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