by Annemiek | Jan 11, 2020 | blog, child rights focus
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...
by Annemiek | Oct 31, 2019 | blog, child rights focus
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...
by Annemiek | Mar 6, 2019 | blog, child rights focus, speeches, work experience
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...
by Annemiek | Nov 19, 2015 | blog
In case you did not know: November 20 is Universal Children’s Day. On 14 December 1954 the UN General Assembly recommended that all countries institute a Universal Children’s Day “as a day of world-wide fraternity and understanding between children and of activity...
by Annemiek | Nov 17, 2015 | blog
Every day the newspapers are full with news in which children and adolescents play a role or where the described developments has great consequences for them. Even if children flee away from wartorn countries to places which are more safe, their situation hardly gets...
by Annemiek | Feb 28, 2013 | blog
After Marieke van de Pol, who is building this website for me, came with the suggestion to write here a blog regularly, it came to my mind how fast technological developments are in my lifetime. I remember my grandfather Sam Blom (my mother’s father) sitting behind...