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Children as citizens: the public policy challenge


21/08/2009

Friday, 21st August 2009

Speech by Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan at the Merriman Summer School

In an orphanage in Warsaw in the early part of the twentieth century a man named Janusz Korczak, a paediatric doctor, created an environment for children that recognised their dignity, their capacity and above all their ability to make a significant and constructive contribution when given the opportunity and support to do so. 

Read full speech here

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