Responsible Parents, Responsible Children: Celebrating the Rights of Children

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On Thursday, November 14, the NGO Committee on the Family focused on the anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Speakers included:

Rabbi Diana Gerson
Associate Executive Vice President, New York Board of Rabbis

and

Katy Faust
Founder & President, Them Before Us

The full recording of the event can be found at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xxaQ5UDkSk

More information below…

In 1989, world leaders made a historic commitment to the world’s children by adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child – an international agreement on childhood. It’s become the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history and has helped transform children’s lives around the world. Throughout the convention, however, there are thirty-three references to the roles, duties, and responsibilities of parents in protecting, educating, and advocating for their children. This event will show how parents who take an active part in their child’s life will also serve to raise responsible, resilient, and reliable children.

Our first speaker was Rabbi Diana Gerson. Rabbi Gerson is the Associate Executive Vice President of The New York Board of Rabbis (NYBR), where she has served since 2005. At the NYBR, the primary focus of her work has been to advance the NYBR’s leadership role in confronting family violence, domestic violence, sexual abuse, and the exploitation of children by reaching across faith communities. Rabbi Diana also serves as a member of the Interfaith Alliance for Safer Communities Secretariat and was a member of its steering committee for the Child Dignity in a Digital World global forum held in Abu Dhabi in November 2018. She has dedicated her rabbinate to bringing interfaith leaders together to address the unique challenges that our society faces today, focusing on the well-being of children and supporting and empowering families.

Katy Faust is Founder and President of Them Before Us, a global movement defending children’s right to their mother and father. She publishes, speaks and testifies widely on why marriage and family are matters of justice for children. Her articles have appeared in Newsweek, USA Today, The Federalist, Public Discourse, WORLD Magazine, The Daily Signal, the Washington Examiner, the American Mind, and the American Conservative. She is on the advisory board for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. Katy helped design the teen edition of CanaVox which studies sex, marriage and relationships from a natural law perspective. Katy is the author of Pro Child Politics: Why Every Cultural, Economic, and National Issue Is a Matter of Justice for Children.

The NGO Committee on the Family has been wonderfully fortunate in the high caliber of panelists and speakers who have graciously addressed us. In an effort to enrich the intellectual experience of our audience, we have invited guests representing a diverse set of views and beliefs. We should note here that the expression of any views on this or any other program does not constitute an endorsement of those views by the NGO Committee on the Family, our member NGOs, or our co-sponsoring organizations.

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