UNCRC Elects Academic Expert Professor Aoife Nolan to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

Doughty Street Chambers is delighted to share that Professor Aoife Nolan has been elected to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Following Ireland’s nomination of Professor Nolan as its candidate for election, she has now been elected to the body of 18 independent experts responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by its States Parties. 

Aoife Nolan is an internationally recognised expert in human rights law, with a particular focus on economic and social rights and children's rights. Aoife Co-leads Doughty Street Chambers' Children's Rights Group and is a member of the Doughty Street International Steering Group. She is Professor of International Human Rights Law at the School of the Law, University of Nottingham, where she is also Director of the Human Rights Law Centre's Economic and Social Rights Unit. Aoife is President of the Council of Europe's European Committee of Social Rights, the leading European monitoring mechanism on economic and social rights, having joined the Committee in 2017 and served as Vice-President in 2021-2.    

Professor Nolan will contribute to the Committee’s work overseeing state compliance with the Convention, including the examination of periodic reports submitted by States Parties and the development of authoritative guidance on children’s rights. 

Her election reflects both her outstanding expertise in the field of children's rights and Ireland’s ongoing commitment to promoting and protecting children’s rights a the international level. 

Read the Statement on Professor Nolan’s election by Minister Helen McEntee, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ireland here.

Read more about Professor Aoife Nolan and her work here.