<p style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-size:12px">From left to right, Lawyer and Youth Advocate Ophir Cassidy; Lawyer for Child Tania Williams-Blyth; and Research Centre Director, Dr Amohia Boulton at the Congress.</span></em></p>

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<p>Ms Tania Williams-Blyth and Dr Amohia Boulton have recently returned from the 7th World Congress on Family Law and Children&rsquo;s Rights, which was held in Dublin Ireland from the 4th to the 7th of June 2017.&nbsp; They presented a paper entitled E Tipu, E Rea: The Care and Protection of M&#257;ori Children, which was based on the research Tania undertook as part of a Lottery Health Research Grant in 2015.</p>

<p>While in Dublin the two met with, and heard presentations by, a number of New Zealand-based colleagues undertaking research in various aspects of child and family law. Over 600 delegates from around the world took part in the four-day Congress. Highlights for the pair included participating in a pre-conference workshop for PhD students; the calibre of the international keynotes, many of whom spoke about the myriad international conventions and frameworks that support child and family rights; and networking with other researchers and academics involved in issues to do with protection of children from as far afield as Jamaica and Indonesia. After the conference Ms Williams-Blyth was fortunate to meet with members of the Roma and Traveller communities; peoples indigenous to Ireland and Europe.</p>

<p>If you are interested in the presentation that Tania and Amohia gave at the Congress, <a href="/publications/conference-presentations/6/">a copy of the presentation can be found here</a>. The written paper that was provided to the Congress will be submitted to a relevant journal for publication in the near future.</p>

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