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

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...

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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

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...

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Dr. P. E. Veerman

Dr. Philip Veerman, CPsychol. The Hague, the Netherlands Cell phone: +31-6-52445222 Email: info@drpveerman.nl www.childrightsfocus.org A highly acclaimed, multi-lingual, experienced and chartered psychologist, specialising in forensic psychology, health psychology, and human rights. Proactive...

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About this website

What can you expect here? There are many organisations working for children’s rights and they all have websites (some you can find under links here). So what will this website add? This website has the perspective of psychologist and educator Philip Veerman. Veerman was part of many developments:...

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Hospital and Handcuffs

How two wounded Palestinian youths were handcuffed to their beds in Hadassah Hospital by Guy Hessel in: Palestine Israel Journal Vol.3 Nos. 3 & 4 1996 On Wednesday, October 9, 1996, 14-year-old Mu'taz Jaradat and 17-year-old Ghaleb al-Farukh, from the village of Sa'ir near Hebron, were both...

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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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