The Children's Rights Knowledge Centre (in Dutch: Kenniscentrum Kinderrechten, abbreviated as KeKi) aims to collect and disseminate knowledge on children’s rights, generated by national and international scientific research.

KeKi is an interdisciplinary centre, supported by an interuniversity platform of researchers affiliated with the following institutions: Universiteit Antwerpen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Universiteit Gent, Hogeschool Gent and K.U.Leuven.
 

From 30 July to 24 August 2012, the first edition of the international interdisciplinary course “Human Rights for Development” (HR4DEV) will take place in Antwerp, Belgium. The training programme consists of a general part (two weeks on human rights and development) and a thematic part (two weeks on children's rights and globalization). The thematic part on children's rights is a continuation of the course "Children's Rights in a Globalized World". More information on the programme and application can be found on www.hr4dev.be.
 

On 20 November 2011, the legal instruments database was (symbolically) launched, as the contribution of the Children's Rights Knowledge Centre to the anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. You can visit the database on www.kekidatabank.be, in English or in Dutch. The legal instruments database is the first part of the children's rights database.

Try out the children's rights database!

To facilitate access to information on children’s rights, the Children’s Rights Knowledge Centre is developing a children’s rights database, which will be accessible in English and in Dutch. It consists of three subdatabases: a legal instruments database, a Flemish research database, and a publications database. To guarantee that the database is user-friendly, we launch an appeal to test the database. To that end, you are cordially invited to the ‘try-out lunch’ on Monday 24 October, from 11.30 a.m. to 13.30 p.m. in Brussels, where you can share your suggestions and comments on the database with us. You can access the test version of the database here, and find more information on the lunch in the flyer. Feedback can also be provided by email to ellen.desmet@keki.be. Thank you in advance!

On 1-2 June 2011, the Research Forum for the Child of the Queen’s University Belfast organized the conference "Opportunities and Challenges: Implementing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child”. On the first day of this conference, the Children’s Rights Knowledge Centre gave a presentation entitled “Implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child for ‘youth’: who and how?”.

The Children's Rights Knowledge Centre offers its expertise in the organization of children's rights courses to interested actors. In this framework, KeKi received a Russian delegation from 24 to 26 May 2011. You can read a short report of their visit here.

The final report of the International Interdisciplinary Course on Children's Rights "Children's Rights in a Globalized World: From Principles to Practice” (5-17 September 2010) is now available. You can get an impression of the atmosphere during the group presentations through this small video report.

The publication “European and International Policy Agendas on Children, Youth and Children’s Rights: Comparison and Possible Synergies” is now available here. This study of the Children’s Rights Knowledge Centre compares the policy agendas on children, youth and children’s rights of the European Union, the Council of Europe and the United Nations and identifies possible synergies between these agendas.
 

The Children’s Rights Knowledge Centre, JINT, Steunpunt Jeugd, VIP Jeugd, Vlaamse Jeugdraad and VVJ organised a New Year’s reception on 28 January 2011 at La Tentation (Lakensestraat 28) in Brussels. You can see the invitation here.
 

From 15 to 16 November 2010 the Ministers Conference “Europe de l’Enfance” was held in Brussels, in the framework of the Belgian Presidency of the European Union. On 16 November, the Children's Rights Knowledge Centre presented its study on the comparison and possible synergies of the European and international policy agendas on children, youth and children’s rights.

From 8 to 10 September 2010, the expert conference "Europe de l'Enfance" took place in Antwerp, in the framework of the Belgian Presidency of the European Union. The Children's Rights Knowledge Centre presented two documents on the "European and International Policy Agendas on Children, Youth and Children's Rights": a State of Play and a study on Comparison and Possible Synergies.

From 5 to 17 September 2010, the International Interdisciplinary Course on "Children's Rights in a Globalized World: From Principles to Practice” was held. The course was jointly organized by Universiteit Antwerpen, Universiteit Gent, Hogeschool Gent and K.U.Leuven in close cooperation with the Children's Rights Knowledge Centre. More information here or on www.iccr.be.
 

On Thursday 20 May 2010 KeKi was officially presented to policy makers, practitioners and academics who are active in the field of children’s rights. The programme of the day and some photos can be found here.