Prof. Milovidov to Present at International Seminar on Children's Rights in Geneva

Professor Elizabeth Milovidov will participate in an international seminar on "Sexual Tourism Implicating Children: Prevention, Protection, Interdiction and Care for Victims" to take place on October 15-18 at the International Institute for the Rights of the Child in Geneva, Switzerland. This seminar is organized under the direction of Jean Zermatten, Chairman of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, one of the ten human rights treaty bodies that monitor the implementation of the core international human rights treaties. It will bring together children's rights advocates from around the world alongside representatives of State parties, members of parliament, UN organs, members of NGOs in the area, actors within the tourism sector, economists, social workers, sociologists, jurists, psychologists, researchers, students, and other persons concerned by the theme.

The discussants will attempt to define the contours of sexual exploitation and sexual tourism and their legal, economic, psychological, sociological and political dimensions. They will highlight good and bad practices and propose solutions. Elizabeth Milovidov will hold daily workshops which will take place parallel to the plenary sessions in order to allow participants to examine concrete cases.

A lawyer and professor, Elizabeth Milovidov is a specialist of children's rights advocacy. Before this seminar, she is scheduled to sit on International Family Law juries at the University of Paris 8 Law school (September 19).

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