VVI joins PhD conference on Children’s Rights
On 8-9 December 2016 the Department of Children’s Rights of Leiden Law School held an international PhD conference on Children’s Rights in Leiden, under the direction of Ton Liefaard, Julia Sloth-Nielsen and Marielle Bruning. As one of the institutional partners of this department in the research program Effective Protection of Human Rights in a Pluralist World, VVI staff participated in this conference.
Hoko Horii and Mies Grijns presented their collaborative PhD research project on Child marriages in Indonesia. Jan Michiel Otto delivered a keynote address on ‘Children’s rights: law and social reality in the developing world’ at the opening session.