Children are the future of the world. To build them a stable, harmonious and safe social environment is one of the important preconditions for our country and nation’s sustainable development, which has drawn much attention from the governments and experts from all over the world. The Chinese government has always cared about children’s safety. Especially after contracting The Convention on the Rights of the Child, many related laws, regulations and policies have been enacted. In early 2004, new policies were formulated to guarantee children’s healthy development.   

    After the successful conclusion of the fourth international forum for children, the fifth international forum for children will be convened in November, 2005 as scheduled, which will focus on how to create a safe environment for children. This forum will provide the experts and organizations from all over the world with an arena, on which they could exchange research findings and put forward different point of views. 

Objectives

The forum will discuss the current safety problems facing children and the responsibilities our society shall bear by:

formulating relevant laws and regulations;

avoiding various accidental harms;

providing safe and qualified education, recreation and instruments;

realizing children’s rights and interests.

Via this forum, we expect to provide more information, more opportunities of cooperation and to seek more rules, methods, models and approaches which will help to improve the healthy development of children at home and abroad.  

We also expect to further facilitate the communications among working staff for children from various regions and countries and to promote the regional and international project researches and create a better childhood for hildren.

Theme

   Children’s Safety and Social Responsibilities

Optional topics:

1) Children’s injury and protection

Current situation and countermeasures on children’s accidental injury

Safe environment and protection of children

harm of abuse and negligence upon children

2) Children’s products and medical safety

Nutrition, food and children’s safety

Medical safety and protection of children

Impact of children’s articles (toys, clothing) on children

3) Children’s safety and psychological problem

Psychological basis for children’s safety

Children’s safety and behavioral problem

Children’s self-injury and intervention

4) Media’s responsibility and network security

Violence in mass media and children’s safety

Network security

Media’s responsibility and children’s safety

5) Safety education for children

Self protection and children’s safety

Courses and practice of children’s safety education

Supporters

Shanghai Municipal Committee on Women & Children’s Affairs

Research Committee on Sociology of Youth RC34, International Sociological Association

UNICEF Office for China

Sponsors

Shanghai Women’s Federation

Shanghai Academy of Social Science

Evening News

Organizers

Institute for Youth Research, Shanghai Academy of Social Science

Shanghai Family Education Research Association

Shanghai Family Education Research Center

Family Education Times Newspaper Press

Co-orgazizers

China Children’s Development Co., Ltd.

Steering Committee

Director:               Wang Ronghua

Vice Chair, CPPCC Shanghai Municipal Committee

President, Shanghai Academy of Social Science

Deputy Director:        Shi Qiuqin

Vice Chair, Shanghai Women’s Federation

Vice Chair, Shanghai Family Education Research Center

Members:              Yang Xiong

Researcher & Director, Institute for Youth Research, Shanghai Academy of Social Science

Director, Shanghai Family Education Research Center

Sun Xiaoqi

President & Editor-in-chief, Modern Family Magazine

                      Tian Xiong

                      Vice director, Administration Office, Shanghai Municipal Committee on Women & Children’s Affairs

                      Li Yanling

                      Chief, Liaison Department, Shanghai Women’s Federation

                      Chen Jianjun

                      Deputy chief, Children’s Department, Shanghai Women’s Federation

                      Sang Biao

                      Professor, Psychology Department, East China Normal University

Ceng Fanlin

Associate Professor, Special Education Department, East China Normal University

Chen Gang

                   Editor-in-chief, Family Education Times

Academic Committee

Director:              Deng Weizhi

Member of standing committee, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference

Chairman, Shanghai Sociology Association

Dean & Ph. D. Supervisor, Sociology Department, Shanghai University

Deputy Director:       Miao Xiaochun

                      Professor & Ph. D. Supervisor, Psychology Department, East China Normal University

                      Lu Hanlong

                      President & Researcher, Research Institute for Social Development, Shanghai Academy of Social Science

Executive Deputy Director      Yang Xiong

       Director, Institute for Youth Research, Shanghai Academy of Social Science

Sang Biao

Professor, Psychology Department, East China Normal University

Academic Advisor

Duan Zhen           Researcher, Shanghai Academy of Social

Science

Jin Zhikun            Researcher, Institute for Youth Research, Shanghai Academy of Social Science

Liu Xiangyun          Pediatric professor, Shanghai Medical University

Xu Jian               Professor of Criminology, East China University of

Politics and Law

Cao Zifang           Professor of Applied Psychology, Shanghai Teachers University

Domestic Members:

Liu Jinghai            Principal, Shanghai Zhaobei District No.8 Middle School

Hu Shensheng       Professor, Social Sciences Department, Shanghai University

Wang Xiang         Vice president, Shanghai Changning District People’s Court

Zhang Ying           Presiding Judge, Juvenile Court, Shanghai Putuo District People’s Court

Yang Yongming     Deputy director, Administration Office Shanghai Juvenile Protection Committee

Hu Shoujun           Professor, Sociology Department, Fudan University

Tang Shengchang      Principal, Shanghai High School

Zeng Fanlin           Associate professor, Special Education

                         Department, East China Normal University

Ye Bin               East China Normal University

Du Yasong            Director-level physician, Shanghai Mental Health Center

                     Director, Child Behavior Labor

Gu Xiaoming          Professor, History Department,

                     Fudan University

Jin Wuguan           Director & Professor, Youth Psychological

                        Counseling Center, Ruijin Hospital

Liu Jinfen             Director, Shanghai Children’s Medical Center

Li Wei                Researcher, Institute for Youth Research, Shanghai Academy of Social Science

Ma Deling            Vice President, Laws and Politics Academy,

 Shanghai Teachers University

Sun Yunxiao          Vice Director & Researcher, China Youth Research

                     Center

                     Vice President, China Youth Research Association

Zhang Hua            Director, Shandong Province Institute for Youth

                      Research

Zeng Jinhua           Director, Guangdong Province Youth Research

Center

She Shuanghao         Vice president, Humanities Academy,

Wuhan University

Overseas Members:

Director:

Helena Helve             Chair, Research Committee on Sociology of Youth RC34, International Sociological Association

                         Professor, Helsinki University

Members:

Christopher drake   International Coordinator, Living Values Programme, UK

Fujinaga Tamotsu    Ochonumizu Women’s University, Japan

Heather Paul        Executive Director, Safe Kids Worldwide

James E. Cote       Editor, International Bulletin of Youth Research

Professor, Sociology Department, University of Western Ontario

Katsumi Shimane    Professor, Sociology Department, Senshu University,

Japan

Maggie Koong      Vice Chair, OMEP-Hong Kong (World Organization for

 Early Childhood Education)

Song Yoo-Jean     Ph.D., Sociology Department, Hanyang University, Korea

Taciana Fisac      Professor & Director, Director, East Asia Research

Institution of Madrid University, Spain

Secretariat:

Secretary-general:

Chen Jianjun               Deputy Director, Children’s Department,

Shanghai Women’s Federation

Deputy Secretary-general:

Bao Leiping               Institute for Youth Research,

Shanghai Academy of Social Science

Wei Lili                   Institute for Youth Research,

Shanghai Academy of Social Science

Zhou Miao                Children’s Department,

Shanghai Women’s Federation

Xu Weina                 Liaison Department,

Shanghai Women’s Federation

Time & Venue

November 24^th—26^th, 2005

Shanghai

Preliminary Arrangement

Keynote Speeches, Plenary Session, Feature Discussions and children’s forum

Exhibitions of children’s articles

Photo exhibition on children’s safe development

Language

Chinese & English

(provision Chinese-English simultaneous interpretation) 

Paper Submission

1.      Please submit the abstract of your papers via email by the end of June.

2.      Please submit your papers via email by the end of July.

Primary Registration Form

If you would like to attend the forum, please fill the form and send it back before May 30^th, 2005.

Please send this form to:

Zhou Miao

Xu Weina

Shanghai Women’s Federation

245 Tianping Road, Shanghai 200030, P.R. China

Tel/Fax:0086-21-64312077  0086-21-64727470