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.
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“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...
Older article suddenly up to date
Sometimes old articles I wrote are suddenly again up to date. An example is my article from 1990 in the Jerusalem Post. In 1990 I was lobbying that Israel would ratify the Hague Child Abduction Convention. The article helped. In May 1991 I was...
Worries that vlogging by children can become childlabour.
Worries that vlogging by children can become childlabour. See (if you read Dutch) my comments in the newspaper AD: Grote zorgen om jonge vloggers: is hier sprake van kinderarbeid? | Binnenland | https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/grote-zorgen-om-jonge-vloggers-is-hier-sprake-van-kinderarbeid~ac154b1a/ ...
Philip Veerman speaker at the Pan-African Child Rights Forum
The Pan-African Child Rights Forum (PACRiF) is one of three events that UNICEF-AU Office is organizing to mark the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC30) in November 2019 and the 30th anniversary of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC30)...
The Oxford Handbook of children’s rights law
Philip Veerman writes a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of children's Rights Law 2020. Examining the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child through the Lens of Caste- and Descent-based Discrimination. Table of contents
Jan Kizilhan: ‘On the Yezidi trauma’ 10 december, de Balie
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 under ISIS. ‘Step by step, Isis carries out...
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 interested correspondants. This...
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 https://brill.com/abstract/book/edcoll/9789004327573/BP000022.xml
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.
The BBC reports that 10 years after their kidnapping of the 276 girls in the Nigerian town Chibok (you remember #BringBackOurGirls) 180 escaped or have been freed, but are not taken care of well now. The Bono State government in Nigeria should do more!!! ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cp…
The board of the Foundation Minister of Children which lobbys fior such a Minister in the Dutch government is renewed and met yesterday
Today The Dutch PM received a delegation of young victims of the childcare benefits scandal. I was honored to accompany them.Needs and problems of these young people were neglected too long.
Children should not do dangerous work and be in school. See: Mississippi slaughterhouse to blame for death of migrant teen, OSHA says nbcnews.com/politics/immigra…
Is this juvenile justice? No it is racism. See: Race played role in sentencing of Black child, 10, for urinating in public, lawyer says nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/race…
Childlabour in the USA.see: L.A. poultry firm hired kids as young as 14 to work with sharp knives, Labor Dept. says nbcnews.com/news/us-news/los…
An important letter. See: 1,000 child psychologists, trauma experts urge the release of children - Israel News - The Jerusalem Post jpost.com/israel-news/articl…
In one of the richest countries of the world this should be a thing of the past. See: Federal agents found more than two dozen minors working in Ohio poultry plant nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fed…
Attention of the world is needed for 30 children!! See: Israel says 30 Gaza hostages are children, IDF strikes in Lebanon | The Jerusalem Post jpost.com/arab-israeli-confl…
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…
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