2025 Events

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 2025 Events - Table of Contents:

• The 2nd Annual ChYRP Conference on Children's Rights
  December 8-9 | Faculty of Law, HUJI
   
• Online Symposium: Children's Rights and Needs During Times of War and Conflict
  October 27-28 | Online (ZOOM)
   
• ChYRP's Research Team Writing Retreat
  July 15-17 | Minerva Center for Human Rights, HUJI

 

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 2025 ChYRP events:

 

In recent years, children and youth worldwide have faced an increasingly complex landscape of challenges that demand urgent attention from the international community. Contemporary global developments – including armed conflicts, democratic backsliding, ongoing health crises, rapid technological transformation, and climate change – create intersecting vulnerabilities that significantly impact children’s rights, development, and well-being.

Contemporary global wars and conflicts — including the ongoing war between Israel and Gaza that erupted following the October 7th attack, the ongoing war in Ukraine, regional confrontations in the Middle East, and armed struggles in various parts of Africa, Asia, and other regions — exemplify how modern crises disproportionately impact children and adolescents. These wars and conflicts result in devastating consequences for young people on all sides, affecting their fundamental rights, development, and well-being. As we convened this conference at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, we were particularly mindful of the ongoing regional wars and their impact on children, while recognizing that this reality, alongside other global conflicts and crises, underscores the critical importance of child-centered research that addresses the complex experiences of children and their needs and rights in unstable contexts worldwide.

The 2nd Annual International Conference of the Child and Youth Rights Program (ChYRP) at the Minerva Center for Human Rights in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Faculty of Law focused on these issues. The Conference examined how children and youth navigate unprecedented global disruptions through a child-focused, rights-based lens. The Conference was interdisciplinary, bringing together international scholars from law, social work, sociology, psychology, public health, anthropology, education, criminology, and public policy to discuss cutting-edge research.

 

 

 

 

Researchers from Israel and around the world joined together for two days of intensive workshop revolving around the theme of children needs at war or other conflicts. Presenterss from the USA, Chile, Australia, Canada and - of coure - Israel, covered topics such as protecting youth rights during war, childhood, memory & trauma, psychological responses in the aftermath of captivity, family dynamics, children wellbeing and more.

 

 

 

ChYRP's writing retreat took place in a quiet and pastoral setting, allowing participants to devote themselves to intensive academic writing in a supportive and productive atmosphere. Over three days, writing workshops, sharing sessions and mutual feedbacks took place alongside independent work on articles and research projects. Participants enjoyed quality group time which combined concentration, inspiration and interpersonal connection around research activities.