Workstream 3 : Training seminars

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Publié le Jeudi, 21 Avril 2011 13:18

The third common action of the PUCAFREU project is the conception of a series of training seminars aimed at legal practitioners from the different national contexts of the project (legal representatives, lawyers, legal guardians, institutional officers, children’s attorneys, children’s court judges, etc.) in order to develop their knowledge on the protection needs of the members of the PUCAFREU’s target group and on the interpretation and adequate implementation of the international and national legislation asserting their fundamental rights.

More specifically, these training seminars will address:

  1. The interpretation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and its implementation to the situation of unaccompanied children outside their country of origin;
  2. The Community law concerning unaccompanied children who are third-country nationals living in the territory of a Member State;
  3. Other relevant international legal instruments, particularly the European Convention on Human Rights;
  4. The different national legal backgrounds including the usual dual treatment of unaccompanied children both under child protection common law and the aliens and asylum regulations.

     

    The ultimate objective of this training action will be to identify the existing legal mechanisms and tools that practitioners have at their disposal to help unaccompanied children to have better access to their fundamental rights in each national context.

    The organisation of a national seminar will be implemented in each national context, with similarities but also specific content adapted to each State, with around 20-25 participants. They will be followed by a final seminar to be held at the end of the project at Poitiers (France), aiming to consolidate and develop the contents addressed during national seminars.

    Furthermore, participants will be also invited to a common reflection on possible strategies and actions to promote the access of unprotected unaccompanied children to their fundamental rights in the European context. Finally, participants will be trained and invited to implement similar training seminars in their national contexts with the aim of making this action durable.

     

    National trainings will take place between November 2012 and January 2013.