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Children’s Rights Scholarship 2 Scholarship
Master

Ton Liefaard Professor Children's Rights
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid

Rehana Dole Programme Manager UNICEF Chair in Children's Rights
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid

Ann Skelton Professor Children's rights in a sustainable world
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid

Mariëlle Bruning Professor of Children and the Law
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid

Education of your children Social life and settling in
In the Netherlands children attend school from the age of 4 and are legally required to do so from the age of 5. Elementary school, or primary education (basisschool), lasts 8 years.

Care, Children and the Other Holocaust Event - 7 June 2024
Inaugural lecture

Honorary doctorate for child rights activist Graça Machel News - 19 January 2021
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…

An educational tool? Japanese children's books were more than that News - 1 September 2022
It was long thought that the early development of Japanese children's books served mainly as a propaganda tool of the state: the literature was supposed to have been written to shape children into perfect citizens. PhD student Aafke van Ewijk nuances this image. Children's book writers wanted to have…

Three questions about delayed language development in children News - 14 October 2021
Around seven per cent of children have difficulty learning their mother tongue because they have some form of developmental language disorder (DLD). World DLD Day on 15 October called attention to this disorder. Development psychologist Neeltje van den Bedem explains why this is important.