Children’s rights in theory and practice
ChildRightsFocus is the website of dr. Philip E. Veerman, children’s rights expert.
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...
Job positions and board memberships
Member of the Grievance Committee on Youth care 2016-present8 other municipalities (start of the Committee was in March 2016) Expert of the European Union (Brussels) May 2016-December 2017Freelance work for the DG Justice & Consumers: evaluating proposals to the...
Taking Stock after 25 Years and Looking Ahead
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Taking Stock after 25 Years and Looking Ahead Edited by Prof. Ton Liefaard, Leiden University, the Netherlands and Prof. Julia Sloth-Nielsen, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. In 2014 the world’s...
youth care and child protection agencies can’t stay behind
The definition of a child as ‘a human being untill 18 years of age’ has been overtaken by new knowledge as a result of brain research, and new insights from developmental psychology and societal circumstances. Philip Veerman and Peter Greeven (in their article...
Stretching the border of childhood and adulthood is necessary
Article in Jeugdbeleid by Peter Greeven and Philip Veerman Published: 07 June 2016 The definition of a child as ‘a human being untill 18 years of age’ has been overtaken by new knowledge as a result of brain research, new insights from developmental psychology and...
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