News
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New website Leiden Children’s Rights ObservatoryA new website has been designed to make the Leiden Children’s Rights Observatory, which started in 2018, more accessible.
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Mariëlle Bruning Expert Council of EuropeThe Council of Europe is currently implementing its Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2016-2021), one of the priority areas of which is “a life fr...
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Third Party Intervention to UN Committee on the Rights of the ChildUpon invitation by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, a large group of academics have submitted a third party intervention in a case against...
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PhD Defence Sabine WittingSabine Witting, PhD student at Child Law and eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies, will defend her thesis on Thursday, June 11.
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Prof. Liefaard addresses legal professionals in India about COVID-responses and children’s rightsProf. Ton Liefaard connected to around 150 legal professionals in India and beyond to reflect upon the COVID-response of governments from a children’s...
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First live session Meeting Children's Rights Leaders @ Leiden Law'The impact of the outbreak of COVID-19 may be even greater and long-lasting. This is an exciting time for you as students to be setting out into the ...
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‘I'm really grateful to my fellow lecturers for their help’Our lecturers had just a week to convert their subjects into online formats. It was an enormous challenge because by no means everyone was involved in...
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Anna van Duijvenvoorde and Stephanie Rap receive 444 Interdisciplinary Activity GrantThe Young Academy Leiden (YAL) has awarded an 444 Interdisciplinary Activity Grant to Anna van Duijvenvoorde and Stephanie Rap to organise a half-day ...
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Children in court proceedings should be heard at much younger ageOn 2 March 2020 the report Kind in proces: van communicatie naar effectieve participatie (Children in proceedings: from communication towards effectiv...
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Conference in Sarajevo on Children’s Access to JusticeOrganised in collaboration with the Bosnia and Herzegovina State Ministry of Justice, UNICEF’s Europe and Central Asia Regional Office and UNICEF’s Bo...
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Council of Europe protects children’s rights through action plan in biomedicineThe action plan focuses on addressing key challenges posed by technological developments and trends in biomedical practices
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New volume on ‘Safeguarding Children’s Rights in Immigration Law’At the start of 2020, the book ‘Safeguarding Children’s Rights in Immigration Law’ was published by Intersentia.
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Stephanie Rap receives KNAW Young Career AwardOn Tuesday 4 February, Stephanie Rap, lecturer in children’s rights, was presented with the KNAW Early Career Award 2019. She receives the award for h...
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Leiden University supports amici curiae brief in U.S. case about detention of immigrant children
The amici curiae brief was filed with the United States District Court for the Central District of California, on 28 January 2020.
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Situation analysis of children and adolescents in the Caribbean Netherlands published by UNICEFIn 2019 UNICEF published the situation analysis of children and adolescents in the Caribbean Netherlands, commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Interi...