Prevent children becoming victims of a data-driven world

The impact of ‘dataveillance’ on children who are monitored from birth via smartphones and FitBits, is great. Children’s rights must be more central when it comes to designing technology.

Remco Pijpers, Simone van der Hof and Ton Liefaard • May 03, 2022

This is not how one treats children

The new assistance offered by the Dutch government to asylum seeking children is another example of Dutch thriftiness and clearly lacks respect for the rights and interests of the child

Peter Rodrigues and Ton Liefaard • November 02, 2020

Growing up with AI

UNICEF released a policy guidance draft on AI for children. This piece comments on it and stresses the need for a more precautionary and children-centred approach to such policy discussion.

Simone van der Hof and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga • October 20, 2020 • 1 comment

Has a child the right to die?

Euthanasia from a children’s rights perspective.

Apollonia Bolscher • September 12, 2015 • 1 comment

Daily Children’s Rights Dilemmas in Malawi: give me my money

Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world. Nevertheless some major law reforms, the implementation of children's rights still is a difficult one. One issue is the complex donor-recipient relationship with international NGOs. Five observations.

Maria de Jong • July 21, 2015 • 1 comment

When is a child forced to leave the EU?

In Ruiz Zambrano the Court of Justice of the EU decided that a minor EU child may not be forced to leave the territory of the EU. Four years later it is still not clear what implications this ruling has.

Mark Klaassen • April 30, 2015 • 1 comment

What About the Children? Critical perspectives in the light of a new European judgment on surrogacy.

International surrogacy brings forth tensions between various interests, including those of the children. But what is the role of children in proceedings which touch upon their interests? Who can represent them?

Simona Florescu • April 28, 2015

European Court of Human Rights: France violated child rights in international surrogacy cases

International commercial surrogacy has been in the spotlight at the European Court of Human Rights recently. In its first judgments on this growing human rights issue, the Court leaves no confusion that the rights of the child must be put first.

Claire Achmad • July 28, 2014 • 1 comment

The law that everyone should know

The principle that everyone is expected to know the law is not connected to any specific body of written laws. It refers to the spirit on which the Rule of Law is founded, which manifests itself as the famous Golden Rule.

Wim Bonis • April 16, 2014 • 1 comment

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