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
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...
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: https://brill.com/abstract/book/edcoll/9789004327573/BP000022.xml Children’s Rights when Parents have a Mental Disorder including Addiction Chapter in 'Children’s Rights in Health Care' Author: Annemiek van Dijke and Philip Veerman Date: november, 2018...
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 impossible to ask a baby permission....
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 on 21 May 2016 at the Permanent...
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 in recent years, has dealt...
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 the Berlin Wall, and in the...
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.
Pioneering with Israeli-Palestinian civil society joint projects, when it was still possible and work for human rights in Israel
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