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
Realiseer kinderrechten in politiek en beleid
Oproep aan alle verkiezingsprogrammacommissies voor de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen 2023 De Stichting Minister van Kinderen vindt dat de kinderrechten in politiek en beleid steviger moeten worden verankerd. Waarom? Nederland daalt op...
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 avec l’Université du Luxembourg, l’Ombudsman et le...
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...
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.
Well done Fresno, important that more City Councils and Parliaments follow!! See: Fresno becomes second U.S. city to ban caste discrimination nbcnews.com/news/asian-ameri…
An American disease: Hundreds of children, teens have been victims of gun violence this year - ABC News abcnews.go.com/US/hundreds-c…
At the 22 september we had a succussful meeting at Nieuwspoort pleading for a Minister of Children in our next government. And to do child impactassessments (what does this decision mean for children ) and a generation check (what will this decision mean for the next generation).
A worrying development and against the spirit of the CRC: Ukraine war: Pro-war ideology is drilled into Russia's children as playgrounds become parade grounds | CNN cnn.com/2023/09/24/europe/ru…
A ggod reason NOT to vote for Vivek Ramaswamy is he says he'll deport children of undocumented immigrants born in the U.S. nbcnews.com/politics/2024-el…
Children and War conference in Geneva. Happy to havedelivered a paper today at the Polish Mission to the UN in Geneva organised by the International Janusz Korczak Association and the Korczak Center in Israel. The chair of the CRC Committee Ann Skelton honoured us to be there.
Germany charges 98-year-old former Nazi camp guard in juvenile court. In juvenile court because between 1943-1945 when he worked in the concentrationcamp Sachsenhausen he was still a minor. Justice matters even after all those years! cnn.com/2023/09/01/europe/ge…
The epidemic of gun injuries continues in the US. See: Gun injuries claimed a record number of children's lives in 2021, study finds nbcnews.com/health/kids-heal…
The start of taking child influencers more seriously and get a good debate what is child labor? See: Illinois passes a law that requires parents to compensate child influencers | CNN Business cnn.com/2023/08/16/tech/kid-…
What? “slaves benefitted from slavery” what a nonsence will they teach in Florida schools? See: Protesters march through Miami to object to Florida’s Black history teaching standards nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/prot…
This is also a way of keeping statistics! But it does not help youth. See: China stops releasing youth unemployment data after it hit consecutive record highs | CNN Business cnn.com/2023/08/14/economy/c…
Congratulations young people in Montana you did it!! See: Youth activists win 'game-changer' case for U.S. climate change protections nbcnews.com/science/environm…
I support Gordon Brown.
Today former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown came with the suggestion that the ICC (International Criminal Court) will bring charges against some Afgan (religious) leaders for crimes against humanity for blocking girls to go to school.
Israel: very sad the Knesset has adopted the first part of the judicial overhaul. What a stupid decision, to go downhill with the democratic State - sad.
Time NOT to eat Cornetto and Magnum icecream and boycot (the Dutch company) Unilever because they still are in Russia even let employees be conscripted (as the BBC reported)
Important to remember Emmett Till!! See: Biden expected to establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother nbcnews.com/politics/white-h…
Mr Charles Margue (chair justice committee of the Parlement of Luxembourg) came to listen to my presentation at the summer seminar (organised by the Ombudsman for children and adolescents)
22 september van 9-22: save the date!!Een Minister van Kinderen in het nieuwe kabinet | Nieuwspoort nieuwspoort.nl/programma/een…
We need a professional lobby for children. Today (June 10, 2023) the newspaper Het Parool carries an op/-ed by me and Inge Marit Wielinga that we need a profesdional lobby for children.
Regering Rutte gevallen: tijd voor een regering met een Minister van Kinderen.