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Public lecture UN Special Rapporteur Ms. Maud de Boer- Buquicchio 22 September 2016
On September 20th, Leiden University Child Law Department hosted a public lecture and Q&A session with Ms. Maud de Boer-Buquicchio UN Special Rapporte...
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Expert Meeting on “Sale of Children and Illegal Adoption” 22 September 2016
On 19-20 September, Leiden University Child Law Department and Terre de Hommes co-organized an expert meeting on ‘’Sale of Children and Illegal Adopti...
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First graduation ceremony Master of Laws: Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights 05 September 2016
After a year of hard work, the first class of students from the Master of Laws: Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights received their wel...
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Leiden University and UNICEF the Netherlands extend cooperation 25 August 2016
On Wednesday 24 August 2016, Leiden University and UNICEF in the Netherlands extended their successful cooperation for another five years. During this...
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Masterthesis about Children’s Rights? Win the Jaap Doek Children’s rights thesis award 2016! 18 July 2016
The Jaap Doek Children’s rights thesis award is an annual award for the best thesis in the field of Children’s Rights granted by Defence for Children ...
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Summer school brushes up on children's rights 11 July 2016
Digitisation and poor reception of refugees are putting children’s rights at risk. This warning comes from Professor Ton Liefaard. His department is ...
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Pre-study Commission the Winter 18 May 2016
The report of the Commission the Winter, a pre-study on violence against children in youth care, was launched May 17th 2016.
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Improving juvenile justice systems in Europe: Training for professionals 05 February 2016
Prof. Ton Liefaard and dr. Stephanie Rap (together with Apollonia Bolscher LL.M.) are involved in developing a training Toolkit and Manual for the pro...
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Forum on Children in Armed Conflicts 04 February 2016
On 28 January 2015, Prof. Ton Liefaard participated in a panel discussion on "Children in Armed Conflict: Victims, Survivors, Witnesses and Perpetrato...
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Handbook on European law relating to the rights of the child 19 November 2015
On 20 November 2015, on the occasion of Universal Children’s Day, the Council of Europe and the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights launched the Handbook...
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Prof. Julia Sloth-Nielsen awarded Schim van der Loeff grant by the Leiden University Fund 07 September 2015
Prof. Julia Sloth-Nielsen has been awarded the Schim van der Loeff grant by the Leiden University Fund to conduct research on unaccompanied migrant ch...