Children’s rights in theory and practice
ChildRightsFocus is the website of dr. Philip E. Veerman, children’s rights expert. 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.
International Summer Course on the Rights of the Child
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
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 colleagues and...
Children’s Rights when Parents have a Mental Disorder including Addiction
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
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...
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)...
An African and International Perspective on Children’s Rights
Already more than two years ago, Dr. Benyam Dawit Mezmur agreed to be interviewed for this volume of the The International Journal of Children’s Rights, but when and where to meet was not so easy. Then suddenly we were both speaking at the same International Seminar...
Children’s Rights in Health Care
Subsequent to the University of Groningen’s Honours College Program, entitled Children's Rights in Health Care, the need to publish the lecture contributions to this Program was generally expressed and confirmed by its participants. The Program, successfully organized...
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Taking Stock after 25 Years and Looking Ahead In 2014 the world’s most widely ratified human rights treaty, one specifically for children, reached the milestone of its twenty-fifth anniversary. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted after the fall of...
Foto: Pauline van de Stadt
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. Read more >