{"id":11048,"date":"2025-10-03T17:07:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T21:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/?p=11048"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:40:33","slug":"the-9th-regional-conference-on-forced-migration-justice-and-accountability-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/2025\/the-9th-regional-conference-on-forced-migration-justice-and-accountability-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"The 9th Regional Conference on Forced Migration &#8211; Justice and Accountability for Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        The 9th Regional Conference on Forced Migration &#8211; Justice and Accountability for Children\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"p3\">The Refugee Law Project is pleased to announce its ninth Regional Conference on Forced Migration, taking place on October 7-8, 2025, under the theme:&nbsp;<b>\u201cFrom Rights to Reality: Implementing Justice and Ensuring Accountability for Children in Uganda.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p3\">This year\u2019s conference will showcase inclusive and transformative approaches to the challenges facing both refugee and host community children in Uganda. While all children are vulnerable to exploitation and abuse, refugee children face heightened risks due to language barriers, lack of documentation, and limited social support networks. Many also struggle to access justice, encountering procedural delays, inadequate legal representation, corruption, and a lack of child-friendly systems; all of which can deepen trauma and block accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"the-conference-will-address-key-issues-including\" class=\"wp-block-heading p3\">The conference will address key issues, including:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list ul1\">\n<li><strong>Access to Justice:<\/strong> Barriers that prevent children, especially refugees, from realizing their rights.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Gender &amp; Protection Concerns:<\/strong> Child marriage, teenage pregnancy, GBV, and harmful cultural practices.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mental Health &amp; Psychosocial Support:<\/strong> High rates of PTSD, anxiety, and depression among displaced children, alongside limited access to quality MHPSS services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p3\">The conference will bring together a diverse group of stakeholders: advocates, mental health practitioners, academics, policymakers, local leaders, religious and cultural practitioners, researchers, and development partners to share insights and propose actionable solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p3\">In-person participation is limited to 50 participants, while the virtual is open to a wider audience via Zoom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Register in advance to participate virtually via Zoom<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button left\" href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/kZeOVhUHSHWZEvW1QDcRFw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zoom Registration<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"p3\">Upon registering, you will receive a confirmation email with details on how to join.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Refugee Law Project is pleased to announce its ninth Regional Conference on Forced Migration, taking place on October 7-8, 2025, under the theme:&nbsp;\u201cFrom Rights to Reality: Implementing Justice and Ensuring Accountability for Children in Uganda.\u201d This year\u2019s conference will showcase inclusive and transformative approaches to the challenges facing both refugee and host community children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[558],"class_list":["post-11048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-miscellaneous"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"event-lecture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11050,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11048\/revisions\/11050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}