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Master's Online Experience Day Philosophy: online Q&A and try-out lecture
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Master's Online Experience Day Religious Studies: Meet the Lecturer and online try-out lecture
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- Master's Online Experience Day Colonial and Global History: Online Q&A
- Irish Embassy: Small states and Public Diplomacy, Lessons from Ireland’s Security Council Campaign
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Professor Mariëlle Bruning elected Member of the Expert Group Violence Against Children of the Council of Europe (2018-2019)
Mariëlle Bruning, Professor of Child Law, is elected Member of the Expert Group on Responses to violence against children (CAHENF-VAC), which is established to assist the Ad hoc Committee for the Rights of the Child (CAHENF) of the Council of Europe.
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Child Abuse & Violence Congres ‘Broken 2018’ Aruba
From 23-25 August the Child Abuse & Violence Congres ‘ Broken 2018’ took place. Mariëlle Bruning was one of the keynote speakers and talked about the child’s right to protection against all forms of violence and the implementation of this children’s right in domestic child protection systems.
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Ann Skelton in Aljazeera on child rights in Syria Camps
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has accused Finland of violating the rights of Finnish children by leaving them in life-threatening conditions in Syrian camps. Ann Skelton, member of the committee, calls the situation 'inhuman'.
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Abortion, Law, and Everyday Ethics in India: Women’s Reproductive Choices in Everyday World
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Nog meer kennis over kinderrechten
Universiteit Leiden en Unicef werken al 10 jaar samen om kennis over kinderrechten uit te breiden en te verspreiden. Ze verlengen deze samenwerking.
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Genetic and clinical pharmacology studies in GBA1-associated Parkinson's disease
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- Lunch Seminar: Data Localization as a Data Sovereignty in Nigeria's Digital Policy Landscape
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At mission's end: The long-term impact of deployment on mental health
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Prospects for law reform and democracy under Indonesia’s new president
VVI Research Meeting 2023-2024
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Scientists: analyse corona problems with young people themselves
On 30 April, Prime Minister Mark Rutte was presented with the manifesto of the NWO Youth Challenge, which contains advice for policymakers, scientists and administrators on the empowerment of youth in the time of coronavirus. The manifesto is based on research questions submitted to the science community…
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Prof. Ton Liefaard contributes to UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty
As a member of the international advisory board, Prof. Dr. Ton Liefaard, participated in the final expert meeting of the United Nations Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, in Venice from 11-13 March 2019.
- What's Next? Alumni speak about interactive and immersive design: Sabrina Verhage & Casper Schipper
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Online Master's Experience Day ICT in Business and the Public Sector
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Online Master's Experience Day International Relations: Try-out lecture
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Sociolinguistic Features in Vedic Sanskrit: Women’s Speech in Seduction and Curse Charms of the Atharvaveda
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Fourteen women professors take over the Senate Chamber
Fourteen women professors are to be given a place in the classic portrait gallery in Leiden University’s Senate Chamber. The portraits will be unveiled on 8 March – International Women’s Day – by former Minister of Education, Culture and Science Jet Bussemaker and Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker.
- What's Next? Alumni speak about their career and Artificial Creatures Expo
- What's Next? Alumni speak about their career at the LIVING exhibition
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aspirations and disciplinary archives: Losing and finding John M. Weatherby’s Soo language data
Lecture, This Time for Africa! Series
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Climate activist Aniek Moonen to give Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture
Every year Leiden University holds the Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture on or around International Women’s Day on 8 March.
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International children’s rights in polycrisis: Interconnected pathways to social justice and a sustainable future
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The EU's anti-coercion instrument: lawful international countermeasures or violation of the WTO regime?
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Functional networks in healthy and sick brains
Are disturbances to the brain, such as Alzheimer's or autism, linked to specific defects in the underlying communication networks in the brain? If this is the case, subtle changes in the networks can act as a marker for brain disturbances. Neuroscientist Serge Rombouts will be investigating this, together…
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Mariëlle Bruning on exceptional juvenile court ruling
A pregnant woman from Drenthe will lose her baby directly after it is born. A juvenile court has already ruled during her pregnancy that the infant will go to a foster family. The court believes that the child would risk physical neglect.
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"Like Dust on the Silk Road" on the occasion of Chams Bernard's defence
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LCCP Working Seminar with Zhong Xian Chua 'on Merleau-Ponty's hyper-dialectics'
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Cross-border International Crimes: the Reach of the ICC's Jurisdiction
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Mariëlle Bruning Expert Council of Europe
The Council of Europe is currently implementing its Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2016-2021), one of the priority areas of which is “a life free from violence for all children”.
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Carlotta Rigotti and Gianclaudio Malgieri on sexual violence and harassment in the metaverse
On 24 April 2024, Carlotta Rigotti and Gianclaudio presented their new report on sexual violence and harassment in the metaverse during a webinar co-organised by AUDRi, Equality Now, and VULNERA.
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Armenian across the millennia: seminar on the occasion of Rasmus Thorsø's PhD defence
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Celtic, and what lies beneath: Talks on the occasion of Andrew Wigman's defense
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Rival women at the Court of The Hague
Dr Nadine Akkerman, lecturer in Early Modern Literature and postdoctoral researcher in Leiden, has written a new book to accompany the exhibition on Elizabeth Stuart and Amalia von Solms at the Historical Museum of The Hague. ‘They were like goddesses, constantly trying to upstage one another,’ says…
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LUCIP Lecture "The normative body and the embodiment of norms. It’s about habit."
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Yannick van den Brink awarded NWO Rubicon grant to conduct research at University of Cambridge
Dr Yannick van den Brink, Assistant Professor at the Department of Child Law, has been awarded a grant from the Rubicon programme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to conduct research for a period of eighteen months at the University of Cambridge, Institute of Criminology,…
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Master's Online Experience Day Russian and Eurasian Studies: online Q&A and try-out lecture
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Upcoming Moot Court Competitions
The Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies is proud to host the following moot court competitions in 2019:
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Third meeting of Leiden University's Being the First student network
Thematic Meeting Being the First
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On-Campus Master's Experience Day Educatieve Master: Proefcollege en Q&A
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LUCIP Forum: A Comparative Study of Zhuangzi, Fang Yizhi, and Heidegger’s Views of Life and Death
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Conference on final evaluation of Dutch Child Protection Act: 'Give children a voice’
‘The system is failing’, ‘the goals are only being achieved to a limited extent’, ‘we’re letting children down’. These are some of the newspaper headlines that followed the publication of a report by researchers from Leiden University in September. Commissioned by the Dutch Research and Documentation…
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‘A doctor! You?’ Three women on their PhD and career
Rietje Knaap’s (83) PhD was a real feat of endurance, but she persisted. ‘You’re married so you don’t need a pension, do you?’ What are the experiences of Knaap and women who followed in her footsteps? In the run-up to International Women’s Day on 8 March, three generations of female doctors look back…
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and fear of falling in middle and end stage patients with Huntington’s disease
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Department of Child Law hosts successful international symposium on children deprived of liberty
On Friday 13 April 2018, the Department of Child Law of Leiden University was proud to host the international symposium 'Deprivation of Liberty of Children in The Justice System – Towards A Global Research Agenda', organised by Prof. Dr. Ton Liefaard and Dr. Yannick van den Brink.
- Workshop: ‘Worker’s Health and Material Environment in Port Cities (1300-1700)’ (Leiden University and University Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
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Honorary doctorate for child rights activist Graça Machel
Mozambican politician and child rights activist Graça Machel will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University for her commitment to the rights of women and children in Africa and elsewhere. She will be awarded the honorary doctorate on the Dies Natalis, the University’s foundation day, on 8…
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How do national courts engage with the Convention on the Rights of the Child?
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) by the UN General Assembly. How do countries implement this treaty and how does it relate to their own national legal system? PhD defence on 3 December 2019.