244 search results for “child rights” in the Staff website
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Birth leave
If your partner is pregnant, you are entitled to various forms of leave, including birth leave. You can also take leave during the period surrounding your child’s birth, so as to be sure that you are there when your child is born.
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Adoption leave and fostering leave
If you adopt a child, you are entitled to a maximum of six weeks of paid adoption leave. If you adopt several children at the same time, you are entitled to one period of adoption leave only. If you are a foster carer, you are entitled to six weeks of fostering leave. This is on the provision that the…
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Gelijn MolierFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Henning LahmannFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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William Michael SchmidliFaculty of Humanities
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Joe PowderlyFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Letizia Lo GiaccoFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jason RudallFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Remco BreukerFaculty of Humanities
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Reinout VriesendorpFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Willemien den OudenFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Thea CoventryFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Alan SearsFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Salvador Santino RegilmeFaculty of Humanities
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Parental leave
You may take parental leave to care for a child under the age of eight. This gives you the opportunity to reduce your hours for a certain period of time in order to devote more time to your child or children. You are also entitled to parental leave for adopted, foster or step-children who live with…
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Projects 2022-2023
In 2022-2023 eight (teams of) teachers received a Grassroots or Grass shoots grant. Here you can read about their projects.
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Carer’s leave
You are entitled to carer’s leave if you have a sick child, partner or parent who requires your care. This also applies to brothers, sisters, grandparents, grandchildren, housemates and friends.
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Families in Transit: Child-bearing, Child-rearing and Inheritance during Displacement
Conference
- CER, regulations and guidelines
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Back to work
When you return to work after the birth of your child, you are entitled to a number of facilities. These are listed below.
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professors, students and alumni played a crucial role in Leiden’s women’s rights movement
PhD candidate Agnes van Steen researched the history of the Leiden women’s rights movement (1860-1990) and found that the university produced many feminists.
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The right diagnosis and faster for women with heart problems
It often takes longer for women with heart problems to get the right diagnosis. In her Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture, Professor Hester den Ruijter will talk about how hormones influence the heart and the importance of medical research that focuses specifically on women.
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Krista Murchison receives Veni grant for ‘Righting and Rewriting History’
Krista Murchison, University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, received a Veni grant of 250.000 euros. Her Veni-project will explore the ‘immaterial archive’ and its social and historical significance by digitally recreating manuscripts that were destroyed during World…
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‘Computers can give linguists a push in the right direction’
For decades, linguists have racked their brains over the question of precisely how the syntax of various languages is different. PhD candidate Martin Kroon has developed a computer system that brings us closer to finding an answer. His PhD defence is on 10 November.
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Regilme Wins International Studies Association's Best Book in Human Rights
Salvador Santino Regilme, Jr. Associate Professor of International Relations and Program Chair of MA in International Relations, has been honored with the Cecil B. Currey Book Award for 2023. The accolade, presented by the Association for Global South Studies (AGSS), recognizes Regilme’s exceptional…
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Regilme wins a 2022 Human Rights Publication Accolade from American Sociological Association
Salvador Santino Regilme received Honorable Mention for the 2022 Best Scholarly Article Award from the Sociology of Human Rights Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA). He won for his paper “Visions of Peace Amidst a Human Rights Crisis: War on Drugs in Colombia and the Philippines,”…
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Asmaa KhadimFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Nicolas Rodriguez IdarragaFaculty of Humanities
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Mamadou HébiéFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jennifer SchenseFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jens IversonFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Irith KistFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Update 21 February: response to freedom of information request by The Rights Forum
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Projects 2024-2025
This academic year, seven (teams of) teachers will receive a Grassroots or Grass shoots grant. Here you can read about their projects.
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Projects 2023-2024
In 2023-2024 seven (teams of) teachers received a Grassroots or Grass shoots grant. Here you can read about their projects.
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Intergenerational Justice and Human Rights in a time of Planetary Crises in Africa
Conference
- Updates
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Larissa van den HerikFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Sluiter: ‘Accessibility, diversity and inclusion are a matter of doing the right thing’
For two years, Ineke Sluiter was president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Now, she is returning to the university full time. ‘I always carry themes like accessibility, diversity and inclusion with me.’
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Teaching students to work together: 'This course came at exactly the right time'
Collaboration is becoming increasingly important in university education, but how do you get students to actually work together? On a special training day, lecturers from the Faculty of Humanities pondered these and other questions. What did they learn and what do they take with them into their teac…
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The making of a lost generation: child labor among Syrian refugees in Turkey
Lecture
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Data stewards
Do you have questions about data management? Please contact the data stewards:
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Ethics committees
Ethics committees advise researchers on ethical issues relating to their research. For example, whether the research meets the criteria for ethically responsible conduct. There are a number of ethics committees within Leiden University.
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‘Legal AI is a bit of a Wild West right now’
A growing number of AI tools are being developed for the legal sector, to help professionals search lengthy texts or check court rulings. Leiden SAILS researcher Masha Medvedeva, an expert on the technical development of these systems, warns: ‘Users should know what’s under the hood.’
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Mensenrechten overal anders geïnterpreteerd. Hoe kan dat?
Hoe kan het dat universele mensenrechten wereldwijd niet hetzelfde in de praktijk worden gebracht?
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Eric van Hoof on online privacy, knights’ shields and looking left, right and left again
With Sunday 28 January the annual European Data Protection Day, we are drawing attention to data protection and the right to privacy. Because it’s okay to stop and think before sharing our data or that of others, says privacy officer Eric van Hoof. ‘If you cross the road, you don’t do so without looking…
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Engaging Humanities - Exploring Impact: 'We'll work together to find the right place for your story'
Social impact is becoming increasingly important for researchers. On Thursday, Nov. 17, the Faculty of Humanities is organizing Engaging Humanities - Exploring Impact: a day all about impact.
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Back at the office? ‘Don’t expect to be productive right away’
For some it will sound like music to their ears, but for others is may sound less appealing: now the advice on working from home has changed, we can once again go to the office. After a period of working from home, which for some lasted almost two years (with maybe a short break), it can be a big transition.…
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Paul CliteurFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Aafje de Roest: ‘As an expert in Dutch Studies you have the right skills to research hip hop’
Aafje de Roest turned her hobby into her job. She went from a teenager who enjoyed listening to hip hop music to a PhD candidate who focuses on how Dutch hip hop music shapes the cultural identity of young people in the Netherlands.