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Geraldine Van Bueren is an Associate Tenant at Doughty Street Chambers and the holder of two chairs. She is Professor of International Human Rights Law at Queen Mary, University of London, and was appointed to a second concurrent chair at the University of Cape Town in 2001. In 2003 she was awarded the Child Rights Lawyer Award. The Award, jointly organised by the Law Society, UNICEF and The Lawyer, honours lawyers who have done outstanding work in the field of children's rights.
Professor Geraldine Van Bueren is one of the original drafters of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and also helped draft the United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty, the UNHCR Guidelines on Refugee Children and the United Nations Programme of Action on Children in the Criminal Justice System. She works extensively with intergovernmental organisations, governments and non-governmental organisations raising national laws to the international legal standard, including, the United Nations, the Commonwealth, Save the Children and Human Rights Watch. She represented Amnesty International for ten years at the UN on children's rights and is a member of the Advisory Board of Human Rights Watch (Children's Rights Project).
Recent publications include International Law on the Rights of the Child (1998, Kluwer); International Documents on Children 2nd edn (1998, Kluwer); Childhood Abused: Protecting Children Against Torture, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment (1998, Aldershot, Dartmouth). She is currently writing a second edition of International Law on the Rights of the Child. Her writings have been cited in courts around the world, most recently by the Constitutional Court of South Africa and the European Court of Human Rights.
She has written for the Times, The Guardian, and other leading newspapers around the world and confounded and co-edited the International Journal of Human Rights. She is also on the advisory board of a number of academic journals including De Jure, the African Human Rights Journal and the Nottingham Human Rights Review.
To increase the number of lawyers working in children's rights she established PIRCH (the Programme on International Rights of the Child) in l991 as the first university based centre on the international rights of the child and she works as its director.
Her research Interests include international human rights law, international children's rights and international anti poverty law.
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Email Address
g.v.bueren@qmul.ac.uk
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