The Cape Town Principles and Best Practices, adopted by the NGO Working Group on the Convention on the Rights of Children and UNICEF at a symposium on the prevention of recruitment of children into the armed forces and on demobilization and social regeneration of child soldiers in Africa in April 1997, proposed that African Governments should adopt and ratify the Optional protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict raising the minimum age from 15 to 18, and that African Governments should ratify and implement other pertinent treaties and incorporate them into national law.

* In 1986, the largest symposium on child abuse in history was held in Australia, with vocal SRA advocates Kee MacFarlane, Roland Summit, Astrid Heppenstall Heger and David Finkelhor invited to give addresses.

In the same year Belafonte, as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, attended a symposium in Harare, Zimbabwe to focus attention on child survival and development in Southern African countries.

He had founded the symposium to familiarise people with the life and works of the painter and author Georg Rendl, whom Maislinger had already met as a child in his hometown St. Georgen / Salzburg.

The program usually includes both a symposium on a topical subject and a session of free communications on any aspect of low temperature biology.

The opening pages of the Symposium are considered the best description in any ancient Greek source of the ramifications of an oral tradition. Plato has set up a multitude of layers between the original symposium and his written narrative: he heard it fourth-hand ( if we are to identify him with Apollodorus's friend ), so it comes to us fifth-hand.

In the wake of the 2011 Norway attacks, Windschuttle did not deny that perpetrator Anders Behring Breivik had read and praised statements he had made at a symposium in Zealand in 2006, but stressed that he was " still at a complete loss to find any connection between them and the disgusting and cowardly actions of Breivik.

Symposiasts might also compete in rhetorical contests, for which reason the word " symposium " has come to refer in English to any event where multiple speeches are made.

The Amsterdam symposium prepared a declaration of principles which, it was hoped, would be accommodated in any change made to Article 59.

In 1995, Paul Bowles made a rare and final return to New York for a special Paul Bowles Festival celebrating his music at Lincoln Center under the conductorship of Jonathan Sheffer with the Eos Orchestra and later a symposium and interview held at the New School for Social Research.

To mark the tenth anniversary of Lyotard's death, An international symposium about Jean-François Lyotard organized by the Collège International de Philosophie ( under the direction of Dolores Lyotard, Jean-Claude Milner and Gerald Sfez ) was held in Paris on January, 25-27th 2007.

At the time of the opening of Cybernetic Serendipity, in August 1968, a symposium was held in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, under the title " Computers and visual research ".

An international symposium on the consequences of test carried out in Algeria took place on 13 and 14 February 2007, under the official oversight of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

Nicholls ' other major publications include the following: Science Fiction at Large ( 1976 ; reprinted 1978 under the title Explorations of the Marvellous ), a collection of essays edited by Nicholls from a 1975 symposium ; The Science in Science Fiction ( 1983 ) edited by Nicholls and written by him with David Langford and Brian M. Stableford ; and Fantastic Cinema ( 1984 ; published in the US as The World of Fantastic Films ).

In 1938, he organised a symposium on " Power Supply " under the auspices of the Academy, and requested Nehru to inaugurate it.

By invitation of Academia Sinica, in June 1980, after a scientific symposium in Beijing, Desio crossed Southern Tibet under the leadership of Chinese scientists.

As with many other Greek customs, the aesthetic framework of the symposium was adopted by the Romans under the name of comissatio.

In order to progress the matter, an international symposium was held in Amsterdam in April 2011, under the auspices of the International Commission on the Taxonomy of Fungi, to explore ways to obtain a solution.

While still a graduate student, Stiles taught a seminar on performance art at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979, which has been acknowledged as the second course on the subject taught in the U. S. Stiles also taught the first course in the U. S. on “ Documentary Photography of the Nuclear Age ” at Duke University in 1994, the same year that she curated two exhibitions on the subject, a symposium, and published an exhibition catalogue on the nuclear age photographs of James Lerager.

* Duncan, S. D. and Wilson, W., Summit tunnel — post fire remedial works, 5th international symposium ( Tunnelling ' 88 ), Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, 18 – 21 April 1988 ; ISBN 1-870706-01-3

The symposium provides an opportunity to confront the self with specific statements which were made at particular times by identifiable communicators who were addressing definite audiences -- and throughout several hundred pages everyone is talking about the same key symbol of identification.

* While Ralph Messenger is busy organizing the International Conference on Consciousness Studies (" Con-Con "), to be held at Gloucester University this year, his ( recent ) past catches up with him: During a symposium in Prague some weeks ago, he spent the night with a young scientist called Ludmila Lisk, who now, by way of email, threatens to expose him as an adulterer if she is not allowed to attend the conference.

Robin Richardson, an original member of the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia, at a 2009 symposium on " Islamophobia and Religious Discrimination ", said that " the disadvantages of the term Islamophobia are significant " on seven different grounds, including that it implies it is merely a " severe mental illness " affecting " only a tiny minority of people "; that use of the term makes those to whom it is applied " defensive and defiant " and absolves the user of " the responsibility of trying to understand them " or trying to change their views ; that it implies that hostility to Muslims is divorced from factors such as skin color, immigrant status, fear of fundamentalism, or political or economic conflicts ; that it conflates prejudice against Muslims in one's own country with dislike of Muslims in countries with which the West is in conflict ; that it fails to distinguish between people who are against all religion from people who dislike Islam specifically ; and that the actual issue being described is hostility to Muslims, " an ethno-religious identity within European countries ", rather than hostility to Islam.

This, allied to his ready and disrespectful wit, was allowing him to survive precariously in journalism when, in 1958, he was employed by publisher Anthony Blond: " I had picked him up through Hugh Thomas who was editing a symposium for me, called The Establishment.

According to Dr. Felix Librero, professor of development communication and distance education of the University of the Philippines Open University, the term development communication was first used by then Chairperson of the Department of Agricultural Communications, Dr. Nora Quebral, in her paper, Development Communication in the Agricultural Context presented in a 1971 symposium in honor of Dr. Umali former Dean of the University of the Philippines College of Agriculture ( UPCA ) and University of the Philippines ( UP ) Vice President for Agriculture and Forestry Affairs, who had just been appointed FAO Deputy Director-General for Asia and the Far East.

Doctor Doom and Mister Fantastic later had the Future Foundation members gather the other geniuses to attend a symposium on how to defeat the " Council of Reeds " ( alternate versions of Mister Fantastic who were trapped in this universe by Valeria a while back, possessing Reed's intellect while lacking his conscience ).

participated in the drafting of a proposed amendment to include “ human rights ” in the Constitution, submitted to the National People's Congress ; followed the Henan incident where authorities forcibly closed the HIV / AIDS orphanage known as “ Home of Care and Love ”; defended Yu Huafeng and Cheng Yizhong, the General Manager and Editor in Chief, respectively, of the Southern Metropolitan Daily ; participated in representing the four innocent Chengde citizens who were sentenced, five times, to the death penalty ; organized a symposium to discuss the legitimacy of the relocation of the Beijing Zoo

Herman Pritchard, who tended bar at Minton ’ s “ in the old days ”, would watch as Ben Webster and Lester Young would “ fight on those saxophones ... like dogs in the road .” Ralph Ellison believes that what was occurring at Minton ’ s from 1941 to 1942 was a “ continuing symposium of jazz, a summation of all the styles, personal and traditional, of jazz .”

A symposium would be overseen by a " symposiarch " who would decide how strong the wine for the evening would be, depending on whether serious discussions or merely sensual indulgence were in the offing.

She has taught in the public schools of New York City through Teachers & Writers Collaborative and has organized a symposium at Southampton College in memory of her father, who died in 1977.

After a week of work using six languages, Yaya Diallo was in charge of writing a report in French of the symposium with is old friend Adama Samassekou who was living in Paris, France.

In 1996, Eli Lilly and Company sponsored a symposium to address the increasing number of reports of patients who had difficult symptoms after going off their antidepressants:

" MI5, the intelligence department of the Home Office, noted: " It is evident from his recent writings – ' The Lion and the Unicorn ' – and his contribution to Gollancz's symposium The Betrayal of the Left that he does not hold with the Communist Party nor they with him.

The first day of the event is attributed to a National symposium on a topic related to the field of Metallurgical & Material Enginnering, where distinguished speakers from all over India and abroad present lectures.

In a series of diagrams illustrating the " environments " that influence various painterly styles, the Suprematist is associated with a series of aerial views rendering the familiar landscape into an abstraction ... ( excerpted from Ms. Bekman Chadaga's paper delivered at Columbia University's 2000 symposium, " Art, Technology, and Modernity in Russia and Eastern Europe ")

In a 1951 symposium discussing psychiatrist Benjamin Karpman's paper " The Sexual Psychopath ," psychiatrist Emil Gutheil said, " Looking back upon my own experience with so-called psychopaths, I find one characteristic they all have in common, and that is their infantilism.

It was dedicated to Obodas I and is believed to be the symposium of Obodas the god.

The chief editor summarized the results of the symposium as failing to support the idea that human ancestors were aquatic, but there is also some evidence that they may have swum and fed in inland lakes and rivers, with the result that modern humans can enjoy brief periods of time spent in the water.

There is also a medical symposium, hosted by Self Regional Healthcare during the festival.

" According to this view, the verses were drinking songs in so far as the symposium was understood to be a microcosm of society, where multiple views were an aspect of adaptive behaviour by the embattled aristocracy, and where even eroticism had political symbolism: " As the polis envisaged by Theognis is degenerate, erotic relationships are filled with pain ..."

The prevalent view today is that Old English symbel, Old Saxon symbal, sumbal ( Old High German * sumbal ) and Old Norse sumbl, all of which translate roughly as " feast, banquet, ( social ) gathering ", continue a Common Germanic * sumlan " banquet ", which would correspond to a PIE " joint meal " or " congregation " ( literally, symposium or assembly ).

Insight into Ritzer ’ s distinctive approach to globalization is available via a special review symposium in the Sage journal Thesis Eleven ( Number 76, February 2004 ).

Love is examined in a sequence of speeches by men attending a symposium, or drinking party.

There is a symposium conducted in conjunction with the exhibition.

The third symposium is scheduled for March 2012 with seminars relating to Alzheimer's Disease and " Past Life Memories " amongst others.

* The Ernest Bloch Music Festival, an annual composers ' symposium and showcase for progressive and contemporary music, is held in Newport.

Docks and Harbours, 1959-This is a collection of papers read at a symposium.

The symposium provided many examples of work that is the next step in the so-called " digital revolution.