CONVENTION ON MODERN LIBERTY 28.02.09 LONDON CHILD’S PLAY? EQUALITY AND YOUNG PEOPLE Chair: Sabina Frediani, Campaigns co-ordinator, Liberty Sam Dimmock is the Programme Director at the Children’s Rights Alliance for England. Her role includes monitoring the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in England and enabling children and young people to engage in international human rights reporting processes. Terri Dowty is Director of Action on Rights for Children, a children’s civil rights organisation that focuses on the effects of Information Technology on children’s rights. She is co-author of the 2006 report to the Information Commissioner Children’s Databases: Safety and Privacy and is on the advisory councils of Privacy International and the FIPR. Alex Gask: Prior to converting to the Bar and joining Doughty Street in October 2008, Alex Gask spent 5 years as a solicitor and legal officer at the human rights organisation Liberty. During his time at Liberty, Alex led on much of the organisation's most significant and high profile litigation. Alex has written various articles for publication and spoken at both public and private events - on topics as diverse as anti-social behaviour orders, the right to protest, anti-terrorism powers and state support for asylum seekers. Jenni Russell worked for many years at the BBC and ITN, most recently as editor of The World Tonight on Radio 4. She recently criticised modern Britain as a ‘rule-bound, risk-averse, box-ticking culture’. She also writes that it is Cameron’s promise of less state control makes him more electable. Lisa Blakemore Brown is a leading independent applied psychologist who specializes in ADHD, Autism, Aspergers Syndrome and related disorders. In 1993 Lisa was the consultant psychologist involved in the setting up of the first school for adolescent boys with Aspergers Syndrome in the UK.
