Children's Rights in Ghana: A LUMS/CHR Collaboration

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This seminar is hosted by the Centre for Human Rights and the School of Law Research Seminar Series. Our series offers exciting insights into ongoing research projects within the Law School and conducted by our external research partners. We often feature work from our research centres (the Centre for American Legal Studies, the Centre for Human Rights, the Centre for Science, Law and Policy, and the International Business Law Research Group). Our work is often transdisciplinary, dealing with law's relationship with broadly defined social justice, policy-making, science and much more. Join us for invigorating discussion!

This research presentation will be facilitated by Dr Amna Nazir and CHR Externs, Ms Momina Khurshid, Ms Maria Khan, Ms Bilquees Vardag who are final year law students at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Pakistan. Dr Nazir is a Senior Lecturer in Law, Associate Director of the Centre for Human Rights, and Co-Director of the LLM International Human Rights. Her research focuses on Islamic law and the UN’s Universal Periodic Review mechanism.

In this session, the panellists will give the following presentation, followed by an interactive Q&A:

Children's Rights in Ghana: A LUMS/CHR Collaboration

In 2021, Dr Nazir established an externship programme with the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Pakistan. Our three externs, Ms Khurshid, Ms Khan and Ms Vardag, have joined the BCU Centre for Human Rights to undertake research on children’s rights in Ghana, in preparation for a stakeholder submission to its Universal Periodic Review. In this seminar, Dr Nazir will provide an overview to the project, and the key areas identified under children’s rights, and the CHR externs will disseminate their methodology and findings to the audience.

If you have any questions, contact Iyan Offor, the Research Seminar Series leader, at iyan.offor@bcu.ac.uk.