Routledge International Handbook of Children's Rights Studies (ePub)

Wouter Vandenhole holds the UNICEF Chair in Children's Rights - a joint venture of the University of Antwerp and UNICEF Belgium - at the Faculty of Law of the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He is the spokesperson of the Law and Development Research Group and chairs the European Research Networking Programme GLOTHRO. He has published widely on economic, social and cultural rights, children's rights and transnational human rights obligations and is a founding member of the Flemish Children's Rights Knowledge Centre and co-convener of the international interdisciplinary course on children's rights.

Ellen Desmet is a post-doctoral fellow at the Law and Development Research Group of the University of Antwerp and the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University (Belgium). Before, she was a research and policy staff member at the Children's Rights Knowledge Centre, and taught anthropology of law at the University of Leuven.

Didier Reynaert is a lecturer in social work at the Faculty of Education Health and Social work of the University College Ghent, he is involved in several research projects in the field of child and youth policy and children's rights. He is member of the board of the Flemish Children's Rights Knowledge Centre. Previously, he worked for the Flemish Children's Rights Coalition, the Child Legal Centre and as a civil servant at the Ministry of the Flemish Community on youth protection.

Sara Lembrechts is fulltime staff member at the Children's Rights Knowledge Centre (KeKi), where she is responsible for the collection and dissemination of children's rights research, as well as for policy advice to the Flemish government.