Welcome to the Children's Rights Academy
The Children’s Rights Academy brings together the continuing education programmes and activities of the AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ’s Centre for Children's Rights Studies. The Children’s Rights Academy is convinced that advancing critical reflection, empirical knowledge and intellectual curiosity amongst children’s rights professionals significantly contributes to respecting children’s rights and values children’s positive contribution to society. To understand the growing complexity of children’s interconnected local and global lifeworlds and to allow the development of comprehensive policy responses, continuing education programmes and activities need to be firmly embedded with the interdisciplinary field of children’s rights studies and must establish strong connections with national and international academic and professional networks.
NEW PUBLICATION: This open access collection of international children’s rights instruments is an essential supplement to the recent academic handbooks on children’s rights studies and international children’s rights law. Over the years, the international legal framework on children’s rights has evolved into a complex system, which includes United Nations treaties and resolutions, regional human rights instruments, such as treaties, recommendations, resolutions, and guidelines, both of private and public international law. Read more... Editors: Karl Hanson, Ton Liefaard, Roberta Ruggiero, Elena Patrizi, Katrien Klep, Lucy Opoka |
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