Jan Kizilhan: ‘On the Yezidi trauma’ 10 december, de Balie

by Yvonne van Almaren | Oct 31, 2019 | blog, child rights focus

10 december – dag van de rechten van de mens – Philip Veerman is gast op deze avond met Jan Kizilhan.  In 2014, professor doctor Jan Ilhan Kizilhan gave an interview to Germany’s largest newspaper Bild about the situation of the Yezidi in Northern Iraq...

International Summer Course on the Rights of the Child

by Yvonne van Almaren | May 22, 2019 | child rights focus, speeches, work experience

Philip Veerman is a speaker at the International Summercourse on the rights of the child in New Brunswick, Canada, june 23 to 28. The 2019 theme is The right to education for All: inclusive education and children’s rights. More information >...

Children’s Rights and Religious Beliefs

by Yvonne van Almaren | Mar 6, 2019 | blog, child rights focus, speeches, work experience

Philip Veerman is Speaking at the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – 2-3 Mai 2019  Villa Jeantet Geneva: Title: ‘Religion, friend or foe of children’s Rights   Please mark in your agenda and pass along the following information to your network of...

Children’s Rights when Parents have a Mental Disorder including Addiction

by Yvonne van Almaren | Dec 28, 2018 | child rights focus, publications

Verschenen bij uitgeverij Brill in december: Children’s Rights when Parents have a Mental Disorder including Addiction Chapter in ‘Children’s Rights in Health Care’ Authors: Annemiek van Dijke and Philip Veerman...

Law proposal in Iceland heats up: Children’s rights debate on circumcision not on ice

by Yvonne van Almaren | May 30, 2018 | child rights focus, publications

The Icelandic Parliament made headlines with a law proposal by one of its MPs that if parents want to organize a circumcision for their boy, they first have to ask permission of the child. Since the rite is performed by Jews on the infant’s eighth day and it is...