CKLN is collaborating with the Caribbean Child Development Centre, The University of the West Indies Open Campus at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies, the Inter-American Children´s Institute (IIN) of the OAS, using facilities at the Open Campus (UWIOC), and the University of the Republic (Uruguay) which are connected to C@ribNET, the Caribbean’s regional research and education network, and the Latin American network, RedCLARA.
The objectives of the Caribbean Virtual Forum are:
- To make a contribution to the 21st Child Congress from a Caribbean perspective.
- To foster the leadership skills of children and adolescents, promoting their participation in issues in which they have a stake.
- To disseminate information and provide a forum for examination of the issue of violence against children and adolescents.
Participants from Antigua, Bahamas, Belize, Barbados, Dominica, Jamaica, Trinidad, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent will make recommendations to go forward to the 21st The Congress which will take place in Brasilia, Brazil on December 10 – 12, 2014 under the theme “ Violence against Children: Building Peaceful Environments”
The Virtual Forum will be from 12 – 3pm (Jamaica Time) on Tuesday November 18