Protecting the Rights of Children in Iran

Protecting the Rights of Children in Iran

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About the course:

This training course is designed for a wide range of audiences, parents, civil activists, journalists, teachers, lawyers, legislators and other people who directly or indirectly deal with children or whose behavior affects children's lives. The purpose of this course is to provide a precise definition of the child and his/her rights, and to give a clearer picture of protecting the rights of the child with a systemic approach based on the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Also, this course tries to explain the legal and practical challenges of child protection in Iran, and to provide a tool to the participants to provide protection with the greatest benefits and the least collateral damage to the child.

Level: Basic

Language: Persian

Institute: Iran Academia

Reading: 3 h/w

Self Paced

Free

Length: 8 weeks

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Course Schedule

Week One: Definitions

  • Defining childhood and its challenges
  • Why it is necessary to have a child protection policy
  • Components of the child protection system; Promoters and media
  • Some general challenges of child protection

Week Two: Children’s rights and the challenges of violating them / Part One

  • Explaining the relationship between children and justice
  • Analysis of the phenomenon of working children from the perspective of social justice
  • Types of child abuse and a look at sexual mutilation of children
  • Investigating the phenomenon of child marriage
  • A brief overview of the use of children in armed conflict

Week Three: Children’s rights and the challenges of violating them / Part Two

  • Analysis of educational justice
  • The child’s right to environmental protection education
  • Children and natural crises
  • Challenges of refugee children
  • Child identity in a multicultural world

Week Four: Systemic approach to child protection (policy making)

  • Basic tools of child protection – systems approach and its components
  • The child support system and its components in Canada
  • Canadian judicial system and its challenges
  • Successful experience of supporting children with a systemic approach
  • Recognizing and applying a systemic approach in supporting children: a guide for program staff

Week Five: Systematic method of child protection – World Health Organization model

  • The INSPIRE model: Seven steps to prevent violence against children
  • Examining the protective role of laws and regulations at the local level
  • The role of social habits and values in supporting children
  • Safe social environment and supportive community
  • The education system as part of the child protection system
  • 100 successful examples of child protection systems
  • Analyzing Afghanistan’s experience in designing a child protection system
  • Modeling the European experience in the use of components of the child protection system
  • A comparative look at two European countries and Iran in the systematic support of children
  • National strategy to end child marriage in Nigeria

Week Six: Challenges and opportunities to protect children’s rights in Iran

  • Child and Adolescent Protection Law
  • Innovations and potential possibilities of the law for the protection of children and adolescents
  • A structural critique of the new law and its challenges in practice
  • Limitations of the new law in comprehensive protection of children
  • Ideology and children: Opportunity or limitation
  • Assessment of child maltreatment in multicultural contexts
  • The role of culture and cultural diversity in supporting children
  • A security perspective on social harms in creating challenges in the way of protecting children
  • Examples of respect for culture in child protection policies
  • The experience of activism in facing social harms related to children
  • Qualitative assessment of drivers of child marriage in Pakistan
  • Advocacy experience to change laws in favor of children

Week Seven: The role of the media in supporting children

  • Media report – Farsi example of domestic news follow-up: Children of Shinabad
  • The child as a news subject in the media and social networks
  • News report about the invisible children of work – children of carpet weaving girls
  • The positive and negative role of the media in addressing challenges related to children
  • Media and children’s rights
  • Legal protection of children in media and virtual networks
  • The role of institutions and civil activists in controlling the media’s behavior in dealing with children
  • Suggestions to reduce the side effects of dealing with children in the media
  • Hearing children’s voices in the media
  • 17 strategies to end the sexual mutilation of girls (creative use of media)
  • Introducing Negar Rizvani – poet, political refugee
  • Hearing children’s voices: My dear jailer

Week Eight: Civil activists and protection of children

  • Pathology of the effect of fertilizers on Iran’s political development
  • Different methods of activism and methodical civil activity components
  • Ethics in NGOs
  • Activism in the direction of supporting children by observing the principle of “intervention without harm”
  • Taking into account the child’s opinions and respecting his/her best interests at the same time
  • Necessary infrastructures for children’s civil participation and solutions for Iranian society
  • Child Friendly City Experience – Republic of Korea
  • An experienced solution in preparing children to participate in civic activities
  • Promotional tools
  • Creating a child-friendly environment for children to play a role in civic activities

Course Completion Certificate

Certi Ec02Fe4967 9 December 2024
دریافت گواهی رسمی پایان دوره با امضای مدرس دوره، دسترسی به گواهی پایان دوره با لینک دائم و یکتا قابل اشتراک گذاری در قسمت گواهینامه‌های لینکداین، امکان افزودن نسخه چاپی گواهی پایان دوره به رزومه

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