The Austrian Children’s Rights Network is continuing its new awareness-raising series on Austrian current political children’s rights issues that it launched before the summer: the online question time “CHILDREN’S RIGHTS CURRENT”.
This time it’s about “poverty among children and young people”. Experts from various disciplines explain simply and to the point how many children and young people are really affected by which type of poverty in Austria and what future measures are usefully needed.
Participation in the online question time is open to specialists, experts, media and politicians. After registering at anmelde@kinderhabenrechte.at, a ZOOM link will be sent.
The 2nd online question time “CHILDREN’S RIGHTS CURRENT” will take place:
Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m
Topic: Poverty among children and young people
Experts:
1) Associate Univ.Prof. Dr. Karin Heitzmann, M.Sc.,
Professor at the Institute for Social Policy at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and head of the Economics of Inequality research institute
2) Mag. Martin Schenk,
Deputy head of Diakonie Austria and co-founder of the Poverty Conference
3) Mag. Hanna Lichtenberger, BA MA,
Research assistant at Volkshilfe Österreich and lecturer at the University of Vienna and the FH Campus Vienna
4) Mag. DSA Rudolf Rögner,
Debt advisor at Fonds Soziales Vienna Debt advice
5) Bianca Korn
Head of a kindergarten run by the Vienna Children’s Friends
This online question time project “CHILDREN’S RIGHTS CURRENT” to raise awareness of children’s rights is funded by the Federal Chancellery. It is based on the recommendations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child to the state of Austria.
Online question time “CHILDREN’S RIGHTS CURRENT” on poverty among children and young people
Datum: September 18, 2024, 12:00 p.m. – September 18, 2024, 1:00 p.m
Art: Lectures and discussions
Ort: ONLINE
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