A child-friendly ASEAN?

This blog discusses the compliance of the ASEAN instruments on children’s rights with international standards, their capability in addressing current regional issues and whether an ASEAN children’s rights treaty is needed.

Klarise Anne Estorninos • November 02, 2017

Artificial Womb Technology and Children’s Rights: Complete Fantasy or Future Reality?

In the growing field of Assisted Reproductive Technology, the next step might be an Artificial Womb. This would bring with it many questions with regards to the child’s right to identity; which, after all, are not so unfamiliar to the field.

Capucine Page • September 27, 2017

Reflections from Lebanon: Illegal Status, Syrian Refugee Children and Roles of NGOs

Increasing numbers of displaced Syrians are becoming illegal in Lebanon. The blog will describe the negative consequences of the lack of legal status on children’s rights in practice, that have been observed through the author’s experiences on the ground.

Chiaki Takenouchi • August 11, 2017 • 1 comment

Access to water for children in the Netherlands

Children have a right to water. No household should be cut off from water if children are involved. Both the government and the water companies should adjust their policies accordingly.

Giulia de Groot, Thomas Franx, Adriaan Milders and Maxime Köster • July 26, 2017 • 2 comments

Child-friendly Judgments :-)

Courts deliver judgments in child-friendly language. This fits in the concept of child-friendly justice, which aims to make justice systems accessible for children. Yet the examples show how difficult it is to make judicial decisions really child-friendly.

Ton Liefaard • July 18, 2017

The Dutch Children’s Ombudsman put on the map

The Dutch Children’s Ombudsman successfully monitors the rights of children. The evaluation of the Children’s Ombudsman Act shows, however, that its autonomous position, in relation to the National Ombudsman, could be strengthened.

Marielle Bruning and Stephanie Rap • July 17, 2017

The Jungle and the Right to Family Unification

A UK Tribunal has ruled that four asylum seekers from ‘the Jungle’ of Calais have to be reunited with their family members in the UK while awaiting an asylum decision.

Mark Klaassen • February 10, 2016

Malala: ‘No-one should be excluded from education’

The Child Law Department wrote a scientific report called ‘ACCESS DENIED!’. This report is published in light of the 2013 International Children’s Peace Prize, awarded to Malala Yousafzai, advocator of the right to education.

Maryse Hazelzet • October 01, 2013 • 3 comments

The legal status of the child under the UN Convention On The Rights Of The Child

The inaugural lecture of the UNICEF Chair In Children's Rights of November 19th 2012.

Ton Liefaard • December 11, 2012

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