Lisanne van Dijck is Education and Research Staff Member at Leiden University

Discussions

Third follow-up progress report on individual communications

On 14 October 2021, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child published a new follow-up progress report on individual communications.

Lisanne van Dijck and Eunice Odongo • April 12, 2022

Model complaint form and guidance note

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has published a new individual complaints form and guidance note. What are the requirements for preparing and filing an individual communication to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child?

Lisanne van Dijck • September 03, 2021

Irregular Migrant Children and the Right to Education

For the last two years, the 12 year old Moroccan girl N.S. from Melilla (Spain) had been fighting for her right to education by campaigning, demonstrating and by filing a complaint before the judicial administrative court. What happened after she had taken her complaint to Geneva?

Ton Liefaard and Lisanne van Dijck • September 08, 2020

An effective reparation by the Danish government

Denmark has granted asylum to the mother of six Syrian Refugee children in compliance with the request of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. It shows how the Convention on the Rights of the Child's complaints mechanisms could effectively remedy violations of children's rights.

Lisanne van Dijck • May 19, 2020