Masterthesis about Children’s Rights? Win the Jaap Doek Children’s rights thesis award 2016!
The Jaap Doek Children’s rights thesis award is an annual award for the best thesis in the field of Children’s Rights granted by Defence for Children and the Department of Child Law of the Leiden Law School. This year the thesis award will be presented for the fourth time.
On November 1, 2012 the Jaap Doek Children’s rights thesis award was established in honour of prof. Jaap Doek for his outstanding achievements in the field of children's rights, in the Netherlands and worldwide.
Prize and conditions
The Jaap Doek thesis award contains an organized trip to Geneva and prize money of Eur 500, free to spend. The trip to Geneva includes to attend a session of the UN Committee on the rights of the child, and to visit some international organizations, which are located in Geneva. This part of the award is offered by Defence for Children. Only master’s theses that were graded with an 8 (eight) or more in the preceding academic year (1 September until 31 August of the next year) will be reviewed (for the 2016 award this period is 1 September 2015 until 31 August 2016). The master thesis should be submitted before 12 am on 1 October 2016. Detailed information about conditions can be found in the regulations.
Jury
The jury consists of experts with special merits in the field of Children’s Rights:
- Jaap Doek (chairman), emeritus professor of Children’s Rights (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam);
- Ton Liefaard, UNICEF professor of Children’s Rights (Universiteit Leiden);
- Kristoffel Lieten, emeritus professor of Child labour (Universiteit van Amsterdam);
- Aloys van Rest, managing director Defence for Children Netherlands;
- Karin Arts, professor of International law and development, ISS Den Haag.
Previous winners
Last year the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award went to Yvonne ten Cate. She wrote her masterthesis about the revision of the Dutch policy on unaccompanied minors.
In 2014 the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award went to Jill Stein for her thesis on statelessness of children. Jill got the award for her thesis ‘The Prevention of Child Statelessness at Birth under the Convention on the Rights of the Child’.
In 2013 the first Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award went to Rekha Ramlal for her thesis on the the experiences of children when being heard at court in civil matters.
Contact
If you require any further information please contact the Secretariat Department of Child Law through e-mail jeugdrecht@law.leidenuniv.nl or by telephone: 071-5276056.