After a year, we say goodbye to our colleague Eveline van Hooijdonk. We thank her for her time at KeKi and wish her the best of luck in her future (professional) endeavors. Also, we would like to express our thanks to Selina Van Vaerenbergh, who was interning with us for the last half year and greatly supported us with our work.
Meanwhile, KeKi is looking for a part-time employee (m / f) with expertise in children's rights and (science-) communication. The vacancy is currently fixed for six months, with possibility for extension. More information can be found in the job description (in Dutch). Do you want to apply to become our new colleague? Please send your CV and motivation letter to kathy.vlieghe@keki.be before July 31, 2016.
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KeKi organises the Critical Interdisciplinary Course on Children’s Rights (CICCR)
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At the end of August, we kick off with a brand new edition of our biannual international children’s rights course. We welcome 45 participants from all over the world to Ghent for a two-weeks training on global children’s rights issues. After the interdisciplinary introduction, we will look into the theory and practice of children’s rights in (local) governance. In week 2, global themes including diversity, migration, poverty and (health) care will be addressed. Please note that applications have now been closed. You can stay informed via www.hr4dev.be.
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KeKi is a learning organisation
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The international dimension of KeKi’s working environment remains an important platform for knowledge transfer and knowledge co-creation on children’s rights. For this reason, KeKi took part in the Summer School – Learn about Children’s Rights Based Participation. The training was organised by the Centre for Children’s Rights at Queen’s University Belfast (UK) and took place from 1 to 3 June 2016. Three days of interactive workshops on theoretical aspects and practical applications of children and young people’s participation in research and policy gave us a lot of input to think our work through and develop new ideas on this very important children’s rights subject. Each day ended with room for 'Participants Showcases’. KeKi presented the state of the art of its work on the development of a reflection-tool for policy participation of children and young people.
This reflection tool, on its turn, builds partly on input we got during another training in Edinburgh in 2015. In February-March, we attended the CPD on involving children and young people in research and consultation. You can read about our experience and what we took home from Scotland in this blog post.
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KeKi published about the best interests of the child
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In 2014, the 25th anniversary of the CRC provided an excellent occasion to the Flemish government (Department of Youth) to commission KeKi to make a comprehensive overview of national and international standards that safeguard the best interests of children. This resulted in a study and a policy advice in English, which you can freely download from our website. The results of this research were presented at the European conference on this subject in December 2014. Recently, we made a summary of the documents, which also appeared in the record book of the European Conference.
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KeKi gathers and shares knowledge about children’s rights
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For our publications and consultancy assignments we always start from academic research. This knowledge we also gladly make accessible to you to the extent we can. Are you looking for support around the best interests of the child, juvenile justice, children’s rights education, political participation or other children's rights themes? Make sure to take a look in our children’s rights database, where a lot of interesting studies, publications and tools can be found. Thanks to our student assistants, the database is updated again this summer.
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This being said, we wish you all a great summer!
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