Children's Rights
This is a starter pack for academics, entities, advocates and others working on children's rights internationally, regionally and nationally. (If you work in the area and are not included, this is solely due to my Bluesky incompetence - please just let me know and I'll add you).
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@aoifenolan.bsky.social
@acrisl.bsky.social
Project exploring the theory and practice of how #strategiclitigation has been used to advance #childrights.
@cypcs.bsky.social
The Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland promotes and safeguards children's rights.
@shriekinggreek.bsky.social
Greek Cypriot from London living in Northern Ireland. Will share ice cream 🍦 and washing line 🧺adventures as well as my love for Arsenal. May also go on about Children’s Rights and social justice.
@carolynewillow.bsky.social
Longtime children’s rights advocate. Founded Article 39 children’s rights charity. Now pupil (practising) at The Barrister Group. My own views here, obvs.
@upchildlaw.bsky.social
The Centre for Child Law champions children's rights through strategic litigation, policy reform, advocacy, research, and capacity building. We are a registered law clinic based at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
@harryshier.bsky.social
Writer, researcher, facilitator, commentator on child rights, participation and play. Associate of CESESMA in Nicaragua. Based in Ireland. Retired/freelance
@ozlemlakatos.bsky.social
Visiting Fellow, City University of New York | PhD Researcher, University of Geneva #ChildrenRights #WomenRights #UN Fmr. Youth Councillor @HautsdeFrance Ex. @coe.int, @OIFrancophonie, @Armees_GouvFR Based in New York City. Often in Geneva, Basel, Paris.
@sarah-r-mcdermott.bsky.social
Development Manager, Together (Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights) All views my own.
@drrhiancroke.bsky.social
Child Rights Strategic Litigation & Policy Advocacy Lead, Children's Legal Centre Wales, hosted by Observatory on Human Rights & Social Justice and Swansea University School of Law.
@fionadyer.bsky.social
Professor of Practice. Director of the Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ) @uniStrathclyde. Co-chair of ASB, ACR & Children’s Rights groups.
@emmetnorris.bsky.social
Passionate about Child rights, social justice and making a better future for our children. Golf, GAA, football and Guinness. Dad, Husband
@amyweatherburn.bsky.social
@FWO Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Institute for European Law KU Leuven.
@erikafjimenez.bsky.social
Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at School of Law, Queen's University Belfast 📚 Human rights. Childhoods. Youth. Palestine. Golan.
@bromebyd.bsky.social
Professor of Human Rights…with a focus on social & economic rights.
@ginawilson.bsky.social
Work in children’s human rights. Head of Strategy at Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland @cypcs.bsky.social DigitalXtra Board Member @digitalxtra.scot Jewellery maker. Love all things Eurovision and time with my spaniel.
@juliedoughty.bsky.social
lawyer (retired solicitor; academic). Wales now, although still Australian. Child law; media law. Legal blogger in family courts for The Transparency Project.
@antoniabenfield.bsky.social
Barrister. Immigration, human rights and public law @DoughtyStImm.bsky.social. Trustee @wlondonwelcome. Advisor @CounterArts.
@ceri-hunter.bsky.social
Passionate about children's rights, community learning and development and child rights impact assessments (just give me 5mins and by the end you will realise they are not as scary as they might sound)
@carlyelliott.bsky.social
💼 Assistant Director, Together (Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights) ❤️ Trustee, The Young Women’s Movement & Up2Us 📣Energised by child rights, justice, intersectional feminism and cat videos. Views own. She/her.
@matkinson956.bsky.social
Proud former public servant now in consultancy/service advice/improvement. NED, charity trustee & Chair. Lifelong passion for & work on REAL social justice & equity. Gobby northern cat mum. Barnsley my heart's home. Radio ham. Musician. Gardener.
@claredotc0m.bsky.social
Irish Solicitor 🇮🇪 with a focus on child protection 🧒🏼 | online safety 🚸 | data protection 🌐 CIPP/E Mother of three 👧🏼🧒🏼🧒🏼 Wife of one 💍
@liamberriman.bsky.social
Associate Prof @SussexUni & Director of @SussexCIRCY. A sociologist of childhood + digital + data. Co-editor @CandS_Journal & safeguarding governor (he/him)
@tonliefaard.bsky.social
Professor of Children’s Rights / UNICEF Chair of Children's Rights / Founder LL.M. Advanced Studies in International Children's Rights @ Leiden Law School leidenlaw.bsky.social - https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/ton-liefaard
@ytartsscot.bsky.social
We are Scotland's national development organisation for youth theatre. https://linktr.ee/ytartsscot
@uon-hrlc.bsky.social
Human Rights Law Centre at the University of Nottingham. We are committed to the promotion & protection of human rights, as well as the establishment & strengthening of the rule of law worldwide. https://linktr.ee/humanrightslawcentre
@neasanil.bsky.social
Interested in law and emerging tech, regulation of AI, policing reform & youth justice. At University College Cork and occasionally Victoria University of Wellington. Citizen of Ireland & NZ 💚🖤. Also mountains, bikes, dogs. Opinions my own.
@edavisrae.bsky.social
Youth worker, rights advocate & researcher specialising in participation // Liverpool FC Fan // NZ Politics // Toitū Te Tiriti // Free Palestine // He/Him
@clarrysmith.bsky.social
Consultant Speech and Language Therapist Hampshire & IOW Healthcare NHS. Interested in #PopulationHealth #Afairstart #DLD #EarlyYears #BigData #Paedsvoice #creativemethods Latent poet and musician.
@nerys-a.bsky.social
Executive Director at The Children’s Society - all things young people & impact, creating waves of change. Mum to 3 humans & a dog; school guv & slow runner. Love to laugh … my words & pictures here (she/her)
@nickcookuk.bsky.social
Director of Young People’s Services for @childrenssociety.bsky.social | Trustee Rees Foundation | Curious about social change and tackling social inequality | Avid coffee drinker | Views all mine
@hughstarkey.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of Citizenship and Human Rights Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, London UK. Treasurer of International Association for Human Rights Education
@childlawcentre.bsky.social
CLC works to protect the rights of all children in NI particularly those who are most disadvantaged. We provide free advice and information to children and young people. For advice contact us on 0808 808 5678 or alternatively #AskREE at reerights.com
@bezmartin.bsky.social
Head of Participation at Anna Freud. The Lundy Model Network Lead. One sixth of #MessageToMargaret Founder and Director #TheSeanchaíCollective - Learning through Lived Experience https://www.seanchaicollective.org/
@nellyali.bsky.social
☮️ Hippie at heart ☮️ Children’s Rights & Childhood Studies Lecturer UCL London Research: Violence in the lives of marginalised children | Sociology | Homelessness | Poverty | Street Children | Youth Justice | Voice | Participation | Human Rights.
@ncb.org.uk
NCB is a leading charity driving change across society so all children can thrive. The #NCBFamily is #UnitedForABetterChildhood. ncb.org.uk 📍 United Kingdom
@annafeuchtwang.bsky.social
Chief Executive National Children's Bureau. These are my views not necessarily theirs.
@profjacob.bsky.social
PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social; Professor in EU Law at @sdu.dk. EU and #brexit nerd. #Ukraine supporter. Member of @ec.europa.eu's expert group on EU Criminal Policy. Author of "Normative Foundations of EU Criminal Justice" @hartpublishing.bsky.social
@oneillss22.bsky.social
Policy Director & Deputy CEO @ChildreninWales, ex-board member @Eurochild_org. Children's rights, music, being outdoors, campervaning & what gives life fun, meaning & purpose. Views mine. 🏴 🇮🇪 #MOT #ALAW #LUFC
@jpreso.bsky.social
Passionate about #PPI #children #child-rights #PhD. Family, food & wine, travel and gardening are my passions. All my views are my own
@ruthbrittle.bsky.social
Law Lecturer | Uni of Leicester |researching children’s rights, family law, refugee & asylum law | Teaching family, immigration, and tort | from Norn Iron | Love dogs, skiing, reading & films.
@tracykirk01.bsky.social
Child and family law lecturer Research: children’s rights in education, youth justice, evolving capacities and age limits Currently undergoing breast cancer treatment.
@kateferguson.bsky.social
Children’s rights MSc student @QUB and working for child’s rights organisation Investing in Children. Fellow of the RSA. Interests: children’s rights • disability • education • communication • participation https://www.linkedin.com/in/katefferguson
@dralistruthers.bsky.social
Reader at Warwick Law School | Child Rights | Public Legal Education | Widening Participation | #TaskmasterEducation Co-founder | Creator of @schooltasking.bsky.social | Munro-bagging Scot 🏴 “Surprisingly socially functional for an academic"
@unicefusa.org
We do whatever it takes to ensure that every child is healthy, educated, protected and respected. Join us: http://iamunicef.org.
@anjaheilmann.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Dental Public Health at UCL. Oral health, health inequalities, life course epidemiology. I also work on the impact of physical punishment on children.
@cpaguk.bsky.social
Child Poverty Action Group is the leading charity campaigning for an end to child poverty in the UK.
@childrenssociety.bsky.social
We fight for a better future for all children. We're working to end child poverty, halt the grooming and exploitation of children, and stop crisis in its tracks. Learn more: https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk
@endcorppun.bsky.social
Catalyzing progress towards the universal prohibition and elimination of all violent punishment of children. www.endcorporalpunishment.org #EndCorporalPunishment #Endviolence #ChildRights
@camillelw.bsky.social
Social Researcher focused on children’s rights in context of violence and abuse.
@mariekehopman.bsky.social
#ChildrensRights researcher @Maastricht University. Philosophy, law, soc. sciences. Understanding by listening to people. Current: Rights of children living in de facto states during and after armed conflict #Gaza #LasAnod #NargornoKarabakh
@suzanneegan.bsky.social
🪷Associate Professor University College Dublin • Human Rights Law and Education • Law in the Classroom • Public Legal Education •Children’s Rights
@donnamartin.bsky.social
Mum to twin girls, son & choc lab Passionate about children’s rights & social justice ❤️ Working to reduce child poverty in North Ayrshire | Consultant with Samaritans Scotland Lived Experience Advisory Group | Unfeartie | she/her 🏴🏳️🌈
@rolieche.bsky.social
Intersectional activist working in community health & youth work. Abolition&Anarchy Founder: RYSP @youthsolidarity.bsky.social. Organizer. Co-own family biz in metal fabrication (Soldura). Meditator. Grief doula. Nrodivgnt. Child refugee 🇵🇪@🇬🇧. She/they.
@howardchoo.bsky.social
Head of Policy and Advocacy, 54 reasons (part of the Save the Children Australia Group): www.54reasons.org.au | Director, Australian Centre for Child Rights: centreforchildrights.org.au Dipping a toe here - following / reading only for now
@juliespray.bsky.social
Childhood & medical anthropologist, child health researcher, Lecturer at University of Galway Ireland, Pākehā New Zealander, she/her, never enough cats. I study people because they fascinate & confuse me. Children make most sense though. We like to draw.
@sonialivingstone.bsky.social
LSE prof @MediaLSE | Director of #DigitalFutures4Children | Researches children's digital experiences and rights | Interested in evidence to inform policy | s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk | Stay in touch at http://eepurl.com/cEUi05
@bedeonkidrights.bsky.social
Deputy Director for #ChildRights at @hrw.org. Passionate about: children’s right to free education, from pre-primary through secondary; and keeping students safe, even during war. Photography for fun. Xoloitzcuintli fan. 🇳🇿🇪🇺
@janetboddy.bsky.social
Professor of Child, Youth and Family Studies, Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth (CIRCY), University of Sussex. Views my own. Latest book Thinking Through Family - #openaccess chapters https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/linktree
@martinez-elin.bsky.social
Senior Children's Rights Researcher at @hrw.org. Also Chair of the Right to Education Initiative Board of Trustees. She/Her/Ella.
@jennyshaw011.bsky.social
Cultural anthropologist and assistant professor at Thompson Rivers University. Researching and teaching childhood and youth, gender, migration and transnationalism, labour, precarity, and ethnography. Dr/she/her. Dog mom.
@siobhanmc74.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Queens University Belfast. Associate Editor Journal of Youth Studies #youth #youth justice #conflict #gender
@nicolacarr.bsky.social
Academic | Criminology, Social Policy and Social Work | Trinity College Dublin📍🇮🇪🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@gmsainz.bsky.social
Researching on #Education #ChildRights & #SustainableFutures | Assistant Professor at UCD | Co-I: @CSLstudyUCD | Director of #VARiE Group - Voice, Agency and Rights in Education | She/her |
@amyhanna.bsky.social
Lecturer in Children’s Studies, University of Galway Children’s Rights | Participation | Silence
@bluecrimebear.bsky.social
I research children's rights and the rights of people with disabilities. Lecturer in various legal areas, including criminal and family law. Views are my own. As my librarian bear, BlueCrimeBear lives on my bookcase and looks after my law books.
@ulgrid.bsky.social
All about children's human rights. Director at Together (Scottish Alliance for Children's Rights) @together-sacr.bsky.social and Trustee at Environmental Rights Centre Scotland and Families Outside. Also love climbing, biking, mountains, snow & goats.
@andrealesaint.bsky.social
Part sunshine, part hurricane. Love the island of Jersey 🇯🇪
@profbronaghbyrne.bsky.social
Disability Rights, Children's Rights, Deaf academic, Hearing Dog Partnership, Co-Director Centre for Children's Rights Queen's University Belfast
@mlcorr.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer Criminology, Queen's University Belfast & Centre for Children's Rights. Youth Justice, Youth Homelessness, Domestic Violence, Youth, Narrative Research
@liamthornton.bsky.social
I cosplay as a legal academic of legal systems, welfare, asylum & rights https://people.ucd.ie/liam.thornton
@icarszoey.bsky.social
Founder - International Coalition Against Restraint and Seclusion (ICARS). Child Rights, Human Rights & Disability Rights. Views and typos my own. @againstrestraint.com 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 No DM's unless I know you or it is advocacy related
@noampeleg.bsky.social
Academic; children's rights, human rights and family law; Author: "The Child's Right to Development" (CUP 2019); Views are personal
@ursulak.bsky.social
Law Professor and VP Global at University College Cork. Passionate about #childrights #justice #leadership #sport #music and all things #Mayo 💚❤️ https://research.ucc.ie/profiles/B012/ukilkelly
@lauralundy.bsky.social
Queen’s University Belfast and University College Cork working on Children’s Rights, Child Participation (The Lundy Model) and Education.
@savechildrenuk.bsky.social
In the UK and around the world, we make sure children keep safe, healthy and learning. Find out more here: https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/
@freyadw.bsky.social
Climate justice & int'l child rights (she/her) CCO ABILA, N. America Director GNHRE (@abilaofficial.bsky.social & @gnhre.bsky.social) 😷🌈🇪🇺🌻 freyadoughty.com
@cwiesemann.bsky.social
Bioethicist, philosopher of medicine - former Vice-Chair of German Ethics Council - working on #reproduction, #family #ethics, and #childrights with a focus on time and the good life (she/her) #bioethics #philosophy orcid.org/0000-0002-8260-0346
@joix.bsky.social
Professor of Regulating Digital Technologies | Privacy, Data Protection, Commercial Exploitation, Digital Play, Digital Child Rights | Center for Law & Digital Technologies (eLaw), Leiden University | she/her
@jkgillettswan.bsky.social
Professor | Education | Child Rights | Wellbeing | Participatory Research | Student Voice | Children and Young People | Inclusive Education | 🌟 Views my own 🌟
@conorom.bsky.social
Professor of Law, University College Cork. Teaching and researching constitutional law and children's rights. Father of two. Sports fan. Hillwalker and cyclist. https://research.ucc.ie/profiles/B012/conor.omahony@ucc.ie
@naomilott.bsky.social
Lecturer in Law at University of Reading | John Fell Research Fellow at Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford | Visiting Scholar at UCL Politics | Visiting Fellow at Rights Lab University of Nottingham. Children's Rights Scholar
@kirrilypells.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Childhood, UCL. Child Rights | Childhood | Memory | Violence Against Children | Rwanda www.nkwihoreze.org
@allyad.bsky.social
I support & advocate for children’s rights to be respected, protected & fulfilled. I work to influence public opinion, policy & decision-making by raising awareness, providing information & encouraging action. Eurochild #RightsNotWrongs #Unfeartie
@article39.bsky.social
We fight for children's rights in institutional settings. Interim Director - Jez Tigani. More on our website here: https://article39.org.uk
@nickhobbs.bsky.social
Head of Advice and Investigations at the office of the Children & Young People’s Commissioner Scotland. @cypcs.bsky.social Children’s human rights in law, policy and practice.
@drmcastan.bsky.social
Professor of Law~ proper work in Australian Constitutional Law, Legal Education, Human Rights Law. See Case in Point (+Just Cases) podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/case-in-point/id1774138689
@thehowardleague.bsky.social
Building a more humane and effective response to crime. Join: https://howardleague.org/membership/ Give: http://PayPal.Me/howardleague
@gamzeerdemturkelli.bsky.social
Assoc Research Prof @UAntwerp ~ Intl Law/IEL/ governance/human&children’s rights ~ Boğaziçi-Sorbonne-Yale-Antwerp alum ~ Mom of 2 ~ bacı ~ she/her - PI of ERC StG GENESIS (www.genesis-erc.eu)
@shushinluh.bsky.social
Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, specialising in public law, human rights, civil liberties. Ex-journo. Views are my own. Profile at https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers
@ecchr.bsky.social
Together with those affected and partners worldwide, ECCHR uses legal means to hold state and non-state actors accountable for human rights violations. 🔗 https://www.ecchr.eu/
@olympiabekou.bsky.social
Head of School; Professor of Public International Law, School of Law, University of Nottingham, UK. Head ICJ Unit, @uon-hrlc.bsky.social; Deputy Director, CMN. All views are my own; RTs are not endorsements.