Exhibition and Expert Roundtable on ending the harmful institutionalisation of children in Europe

Eurochild, Hopes & Homes for Children (HHC) and Absolute Return for Kids invite to an exhibition, vernissage and expert Round Table beginning of June in the European Parliament in Brussels.

Expert Roundtable: 6 June, 16:00 – 18:00, European Parliament, Brussels,  ASP A1E-1 followed by a:
Vernissage at ASP Ground Floor (outside the members’ restaurant), 6 June, 18:00 – 20:00
Exhibition: just outside the members’ restaurant, open between the 4–7 June 2012
This unique and powerful exhibition will highlight that for over a million children in Europe, the right to a family life is still not realised. Visitors will hear from young people themselves and from experts in child development and fundamental rights about the detrimental effects of institutionalisation, and the benefits of prevention and alternative care. In a Europe of rights, no child should have to grow up in and institution; with policy support and funding from the EU, they won’t have to.

Speakers at the roundtable include Dr Charles H. Zeanah, a leading global expert in early childhood development, and renowned children’s rights expert Dr Maria Herzog of the UN’s Committee for the Rights of the Child and president of Eurochild. We will then hear from the Commission and European Parliament Presidency at the vernissage which follows (speakers tbc). The whole event is hosted by Mairead McGuinness, MEP.       

http://www.eurochild.org