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Meijers prizes and thesis prizes awarded at New Year’s eventOn Tuesday 12 January 2021, the annual Meijers prizes and thesis prizes were awarded at the online New Year’s event broadcast from the Old Observatory.
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Court case of 15-year-old anorexia patient: force-feed or right to self-determination?Via expedited proceedings at Leeuwarden Court of Appeal, a mother is trying to impose a relatively new treatment for her 15-year-old daughter’s eating...
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Julia Sloth-Nielsen received A-rating from South African National Research FoundationProfessor Julia Sloth-Nielsen has received an A-rating from the National Research Foundation in South Africa, where she holds a Chair in Public Law at...
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Walter Burkard wins the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award 2020 with thesis on climate changeOn 10 December Walter Burkard won the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award 2020 for his thesis on climate change and children’s rights. The prize ...
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Walter Burkard wins the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award 2020On 10 December Walter Burkard won the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award 2020 for his thesis on climate change and children’s rights.
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Ann Skelton re-elected member UN Children's Rights CommitteeProfessor Ann Skelton, Rotating Honorary Chair of Enforcement of Children's Rights 2020/2021 at the Department of Child Law, has been re-elected as me...
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Mariëlle Bruning: Swift action needed for failing youth services system
On 1 January 2021, a major youth care centre in the Dutch province Zeeland will close its doors. It is responsible for implementing child protection m...
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Invitation Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award Ceremony 2020The department of Child Law of Leiden University and Defence for Children invite you to the eighth Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award ceremony. ...
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UN Committee on the Rights of the Child follows third party intervention
Upon invitation by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, a large group of academics submitted a third party intervention in a case against Fran...
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Mariëlle Bruning on exceptional juvenile court ruling
A pregnant woman from Drenthe will lose her baby directly after it is born. A juvenile court has already ruled during her pregnancy that the infant wi...
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New international platform campaigns for children’s rightsFrom the rights of refugee children to the right to a sustainable Earth. The online platform Leiden Children's Rights Observatory makes information on...
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Procedures for minor asylum seekers in breach of children’s rightsThe procedures for admitting minor asylum seekers from Camp Moria on Lesbos to the Netherlands are in breach of children’s rights according to Ton Lie...
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Children’s Rights Newsletter October 2020The latest newsletter of the Master of Laws Programme: Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights and the UNICEF Chair in Children’s Rights o...
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Leiden Children’s Rights Observatory: New Report on Admissibility under CRC-OP3A new report on admissibility under the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on a Communications Procedure (OP3) ha...
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Global citizenship research launched in cooperation with NCDOAt the initiative of the National Commission for International Cooperation and Sustainable Development (NCDO), Leiden University has commenced researc...