Event

Event

 

Child Sexual Grooming – A Guide For Parents

10 Jun 2021 - Thu / 1 day / 3:30pm - 5:30pm / Zoom Webinar

For more information about the webinar, please reach out to the Selangor Bar Committee.

Organisers: Selangor Bar

CPD Points: 2
Event Code:
T5/10062021/SLB/SLB212269/2

Description

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Organised by the Gender Equality and Sustainable Development Goals Committee.

Speaker

Srividhya Ganapathy

Srividhya Ganapathy is the Co-chairperson of CRIB Foundation (Child Rights Innovation & Betterment) and the
co-founder of the Talisman Project, which is an initiative which educates children on their rights, empowers children to become child advocates and active citizens and promotes child participation. Sri believes that child protection should be prioritised for a better Malaysia. Sri is a member of the National Council of Women’s Organisation’s (NCWO) Policy Advocacy Committee, and sits on the Steering Committee of the Child Rights Coalition of Malaysia (CRCM) Sri was part of the team that founded the Child Rights Committee of the Bar Council in August 2016, which Committee she co-chaired, from August 2016 to April 2019.

Sri was part of the team of four trainers who put together the Elementary Training of the Ethical Representation of Children in Malaysia (“the Elementary Training”) which was run by the CRC. Sri and has conducted the Elementary Training throughout the country. Recently, Sri and the three other core trainers, successfully planned and conducted the Advanced Training for lawyers who had completed the Elementary Training.

Sri was a member of the special task force formed by the Government to improve child protection in Malaysia in
2016, and actively advises on reforms to the laws on child protection in Malaysia. In recent years she has advised on the formation of a Child Commission in Malaysia, and the way forward vis a vis Child Marriages – she also co-authored a proposal paper on Child Marriages with NCWO which has been presented to the government. Sri regularly conducts trainings and seminars on various issues on child rights and child protection – including training judges and judicial officers on handling cases involving child witnesses and survivors, and has presented and moderated sessions at the International Malaysia Law Conference.

Sri is a law graduate of the University of Glamorgan, Wales and was admitted to the Malaysian Bar in 1996. She is a partner of Messrs. Muhendaran Sri, a boutique law firm in the Zhongshan Building in Kuala Lumpur where she
practices commercial law, civil litigation, family law and child law and advises artists on their rights.

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