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ICCP’25 – International Conference on Child Protection 2025
Sri Lanka
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ICCP’25
International conference on child protection 2025 is organized by the Centre for Gender Studies, University of Kelaniya in collaboration with the National Child Protection Authority, supported by the European Union through UNICEF Sri Lanka. This is the first International Conference on Child Protection held in Sri Lanka, under the Support to Justice sector (JURE) project.
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It is with great pleasure and pride that I write this message as the Conference Chair to the International Conference of Child Protection 2025 and the 3rd International Conference of the Centre for Gender Studies, the first of its kind in Sri Lanka. This conference will bring researchers, academics, practitioners, postgraduate and undergraduate students of medicine, science, social sciences, information technology, humanities, law, and law enforcement to come together to share their experiences, new knowledge on child protection and gender studies. At a time when the country is recovering from a financial crisis, I consider this a pinnacle event to showcase the child protection work in Sri Lanka. This has been evident by receiving over 375 abstracts for the conference.
Wholistic child protection include three responses: criminal justice, health and psychosocial management. Therefore, multi and interdisciplinary services and inter-sectoral service providers such as police, scientists (forensic medicine & science), judiciary, as well as health service providers such as paediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, gynaecology, venereology, counselling, probation, and social services have to get together to give quality holistic service. Further, this International congress will pave the way to share the challenges, strengths and weaknesses from each country and learn from each other.
Most importantly, this conference gave a platform for different agencies to work together. The pre-congress activities including workshop on abstract writing, ethical media reporting and multi-disciplinary / multisectoral management of child abuse enriched the practitioners while academics got linkages to understand the issues related to services. Further collaborating with UNICEF Sri Lanka with technical expertise was a learning curve for the Centre for Gender Studies of the Kelaniya University, as well as the National Child Protection Authority.
Finally, it’s my duty to express my deep appreciation to the organizing committee and the other subcommittees for their hard work and commitment, as well as for the support of the European Union and UNICEF Sri Lanka. Further, I invite both national and international participants to engage in a vibrant academic experience at the ICCP 2025 Sri Lanka.
Snr. Prof. P. Anuruddhi S. Edirisinghe
ICCP 2025 - Conference Chair
KEY NOTE SPEAKER INNAUGARTION CEREMONY ICCP2025
Dr. Asvini D Fernando
MBBS (Col)MD(Pead)(Col), FRCP(Lond)
Associate Professor in Pediatrics (Rtd)
Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya
SYMPOSIUM 1
Child abuse Management Challenges and Successes – Lessons from Different Countries’.
Child abuse management challenges and successes – lessons from Australia and UK
Dr John AM Gall
BSc (Hons)(Qld), MB, BS, PhD (Melb), FFFLM (RCP Lond), FFCFM (RCPA), RCPathME, DMJ (Clin & Path)
Consultant Forensic Physician
Governor, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Trust
Medical Examiner, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Expert Witness Lead, Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine
Director, Southern Medical Services Pty Ltd
Director, Justice Medica Ltd
Child abuse management challenges and successes: lessons from Thailand
Dr. Anirut Worawat
MD, MSc (Health Science Education)
Deputy Director of Strategy and Planning, Phrapokklao Hospital, Thailand
Child abuse management challenges and successes – lessons from India
Prof. (Dr.) Adarsh Kumar
BSc, MBBS, MD, PGCHM, FIAMLE, FISCA,FIST, FIAFM
Double Commonwealth Fellow, Dundee, Scotland UK
Professor, Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
AIIMS, New Delhi-110029 INDIA
Child abuse management challenges and successes – lessons from Sri Lanka
Prof P. Anuruddhi S. Edirisinghe
MBBS(NCMC), MD(For Med, Col), DLM(Col), DMJ(Lond), FFFLM(UK)
Senior Professor, Cadre Chair
Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Univeristy of Kalaniya
Prof. Dr. Adarsh Kumar
Double Commonwealth Fellow, Scotland, UK Fellow Royal Society of Medicine, UK, FIAMLE, FISCA Forensic Medicine and Toxicology All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, INDIA Honorary Medicolegal Expert to National Human Rights Commission & Central Bureau of Investigation, India
Keynote speech of the
3rd International Conference of CGSUK
Human Rights Violation of Woman in India:
Journey from Womb to Tomb from Forensic Perspective
Prof. Adarsh Kumar, is currently a Professor, Forensic Medicine & Toxicology at AIIMS,New Delhi and has been awarded the Commonwealth Fellowship in the UK, twice, in 2011 and 2015. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London, IAMLE (2014), the International Science Congress Association (2015), the Indian Society of Toxicology (2016) and the Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine (2020). He is honorary medicolegal Expert to the National Human Rights Commission and the Central Bureau of Investigation, the topmost agency for criminal investigation in India. He has handled over a thousand complicated, high-profile cases. He has close to 30 years of teaching experience and medicolegal field work, both nationally and internationally (UK and Ukraine). He has published around a hundred papers, organized 15 National and International conferences, written 10 chapters in various textbooks, and has spoken at more than 100 lectures and delivered orations at various scientific conferences, locally and internationally. He is currently the Hony. President of Indian Academy of Medicolegal Experts (IAMLE). He has been honored by the National Human Rights Commission in 2014 and awarded with the Education Award for Excellence by the Indo-US Global Foundation in 2016, the International Cooperation Medal by the Government of Ukraine in 2020 and the Forensic Excellence Award in 2023.
Prof. Rangita de Silva de Alwis
Professor in Law - University of Pennsylvania, USA UN CEDAW Committee Member 2023- 2026 LLB (Col) LLM(Harvard) SJD (Harvard)
4th Oration of the Center for Gender Studies,
University of Kelaniya 2025
A Promethean Moment: Technology Facilitated Gender Based Violence and Coded Bias
Rangita de Silva de Alwis
Prof. Rangita de Silva de Alwis serves as Distinguished Faculty on Law and Global Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Wharton Business School. She is a globally recognized scholar on international human rights, women peace and security and has published in leading law reviews, including at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Penn, Berkeley, Duke, Georgetown, UCLA, Oxford and Cambridge.
She is also visiting faculty at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Law School Center for the Legal Profession. She is the Hillary Rodham Clinton Distinguished Global Fellow on Gender Equity at Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security. She is a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University for 2023- 2025. She is a member of the UN treaty body to the CEDAW, where she serves as the Chair of the individual complaints and Co-Chair of Women Peace and Security.
She is the Vice Chair of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Council where she serves with some of the world’s leading international lawyers. She is also on the advisory council to the President of the UN General Assembly and Co-chair of the high-level working group on Global Gender Justice.
She is a graduate of the faculty of law, University of Colombo and received her Master of Law and Doctorate in Law from Harvard Law School where she was recognized recently as a "Woman of Inspiration."