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First International War Children Conference to be held in Canada

WCIP, the War and Children Identity Project, based at the Egil Rafto Human Rights House, works to secure war children´s right to nationality and identity. These are children whose parents belong on opposite sides or who face stigmatisation for reasons related to the situation under which they were conceived. WCIP will give a presentation at the first ever conference on such children, to take place in Montreal, Canada mid-March. (28-DEC-03)

Published: January 5, 2004

WCIP, www.warandchildren.org, has focused on children born as result of contact between soldiers and local women for a long time, and welcomes the initative this conference represents to discuss the topic on a broader, international basis. “Gender, Ethnicity and Children´s Human Rights: Theorizing Babies Born of Wartime Rape and Sexual Exploitation” will focus on the fate of children born as a result of contact between people representing opposite sides in a situation of war. WCIP will attend the conference and present data on the numbers of war children conceived as a consequence of and born into conflicts since WW2. WCIP has found that both those born as a result of rape and those born out of proper, mutual relationships tend to face similar problems, especially in the post-war phase. The problems include various kinds of stigmatisation and discrimination.

Read more about the conference at:
http://server778.dnslive.net/pipermail/gainsnet_un-instraw.org/2003/000371.html

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