Children’s rights in theory and practice
On this website you will find articles and publications by Dr. Philip E. Veerman about children’s rights and announcements of symposia and conferences in the field of (international) children’s rights.
Recent articles
International Seminar September 9, 2023
The Polish Jewish Pioneer on Children's Human Rights, Janusz Korczak (1878-1942) and Children as Human Right's Defenders according to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child September 9, 2023 in the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Poland...
Bienvenue au Okaju SummerSeminar 2023
Journées de formation, d’information et d’échanges sur la situation des droits de l’enfant au Luxembourg et dans le monde L’édition 2023 du SummerSeminar est organisée par l’Office de l’Ombudsman fir Kanner a Jugendlecher, (OKAJU), en partenariat...
Septembre – 11e séminaire Korczak à la Mission de Pologne de Genève
Depuis septembre 2018, nous attendions son retour : le Séminaire Korczak organisé conjointement par le Israeli Korczak Education Center et l’International Korczak Association, reprendra son souffle le 9 septembre prochain pour une onzieme session placée sous le theme de l’enfant dans la...
Exchange meeting focuses on conflict-related crimes against children in Ukraine
The Hague – On Monday and Tuesday 7 and 8 June, an international exchange meeting took place with Ms Yuliia Usenko, the Head of the Department for the Protection of Children’s Rights from the Ukrainian Office of the Prosecutor-General, in The Hague. The meeting, which focused on conflict-related...
100 years ago (23rd February 1923) the ’Declaration of Geneva’ puts children’s rights on the map
Anchored in the Luxembourg Constitution in December 2022, the rights of the child are now specific fundamental rights guaranteeing children and adolescents the status of legal subjects and citizens. It has been a long road/way to bring the child out of the shadow of law and history as an object...
The Best Interests of the Child and the Right to Inclusive Education
The drafters of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (crpd) incorporated the concept of inclusive education into Article 24 of the crpd. Many consider this to be a new children’s right. The inclusive education idea has played since 2006 a role in interpreting crc Article 23...
Still Passionate About Children’s Rights After Thirty Years
Philip Veerman about 30 years 'The International Journal of Children's Rights' - a brief history, the founding and new developments and challenges. "I am more worried now about the future of children than I was in the period 1989–1993, when we were preparing the beginning of the Journal. At that...
Defending children’s rights
Evaluating the decision by the Ministry of Defence to declare DCI-Palestine a ‘terrorist organisation’ In 1988 I founded the Israeli-Section of Defence for Children International (DCI) and struggled 17 years to get funding and run the organisation. We successfully lobbied for Israel’s signing and...
“Nitrous oxide is not for laughing”
The lack of enforcement of the Hague ban on nitrous oxide contributes to making young people think more easily about drug use, says health care psychologist Philip Veerman in his opinion piece in The Hague Central. The developments around nitrous oxide have been rapid in recent years. A few years...
Philip Edmond Veerman
Philip Edmond Veerman (Amsterdam, 28 juni 1948) is an expert in children’s rights, health-psychology and (special) education. He initiated several new child welfare organisations in the Netherlands and developed international children’s rights initiatives. For his 40 years of efforts to promote children’s rights he was given a Royal distinction, when in 2015 he became Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
Recent articles
NGO Comments on the Initial Israeli State Report on Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
NGO Comments on the Initial Israeli State Report on Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Lawmaking to Promote Children’s Rights, Ongoing Discrimination, and Many Serious Violations The Israeli section of Defense for Children International (DCI-Israel), in consultation with members of the Israeli...
Defending children’s rights
Philip Veerman’s blog in The Israel Times – In 1988 I founded the Israeli-Section of Defence for Children International (DCI) and struggled 17 years to get funding and run the organisation. We successfully lobbied for Israel’s signing and ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. After ratification in 1991 we started to monitor its implementation.
Reflections on Joint Israeli-Palestinian Cooperation Projects
By Sami Adwan and Philip Veerman In: Palestine-Israel Journal, Vol. 7 No. 1 2000 Sami Adwan Dr. Sami Adwan teaches in the faculty of education of Bethlehem University and is co-director, with Prof. Dan Bar-On of Ben-Gurion University, of PRIME (Peace Research Institute in the Middle East). Philip Veerman Dr. Philip...
The Israeli Children’s Rights Monitor
In 1988 I was doing research in Israel for my dissertation on the Polish-Jewish educator and pediatrician Janusz Korczak I interviewed people who had been in children’s home that existed between 1912 and 1942). The work of Korczak (also a pioneer in children’s rights) put me on the track of rights of the child. I...