Presentations from the 3rd Annual Summer School on Human Rights (Thessaloniki)

The following are presentations from the 3rd Annual Summer School on Human Rights “Stand up for Women and Children’s Rights”, which took place from 31 May to 4 June in Thessaloniki, Greece.

• Women Ordained in the Church of England: An Account of the Journey by the Venerable Christine Allsopp
• Women’s and Children’s Rights in the International Legal Framework by Prof. W. Cole Durham, Jr., Brigham Young University
• Responding to Violence against Women within the Church of Scotland by Katherine Gilmour, Violence against Women Development Officer
• The Rights of the Child: A Theological Approach by Göran Gunner, Church of Sweden
• The rights of women in practice: How the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) promotes equality between women and men by OKRin Katrin Hatzinger, EKD
• EU and Women’s Rights: The Role of the European Parliament by Dr Anna Karamanou, former MEP
• Women and Children as Refugees – between Vulnerability and Empowerment by Torsten Moritz, Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe
• Women’s rights and Gender Equality as seen by the Council of Europe by Dr. Anne Nègre, Gender Equality Expert, INGs Conference, Council of Europe
• Protestant theological perspective(s) of women’s rights by Rev. Pirjo-Liisa Penttinen, CEO YWCA and adviser to World Board on faith-related issues