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Children’s Rights when Parents have a Mental Disorder including Addiction

by Annemiek | Dec 28, 2018 | child rights focus, publications

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...

Law proposal in Iceland heats up: Children’s rights debate on circumcision not on ice

by Annemiek | May 30, 2018 | child rights focus, publications

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...

An African and International Perspective on Children’s Rights

by Annemiek | Nov 29, 2017 | child rights focus, publications

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

by Annemiek | Jul 13, 2017 | child rights focus

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...

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

by Annemiek | Apr 17, 2017 | child rights focus

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...

Dr. P. E. Veerman

by Annemiek | Mar 5, 2013 | child rights focus, zhighlight-sidebar

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,...