Introduction to the special issue on children's and women's human rights

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size

Notes on contributor

Sonja Grover (Guest Editor of the special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights on children's and women's rights) received her PhD in applied psychology from OISE/University of Toronto, Canada in 1976 and holds the position of Professor in the Faculty of Education, Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada. She is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Human Rights. Dr Grover has published 12 books eight of which pertain to children's human rights and 86 refereed journal articles mostly in the field of children's rights and law. Her most recent book published on children's rights is The Torture of Children During Armed Conflicts: The ICC Failure to Prosecute and the Negation of Children's Human Dignity (Berlin: Springer Publishers, 2014). Dr Grover has a forthcoming book with Springer titled Children Defending their Human Rights Under the CRC Communications Procedure: On Strengthening the Convention on the Rights of the Child Complaints Mechanism to be released in late winter 2014 or early 2015.

Notes

1. Convention on the Rights of the Child, entered into force 2 September 1990. http://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx (accessed 23 June 2014).

2. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure, Child Rights International Network. https://www.crin.org/en/library/legal-database/optional-protocol-un-convention-rights-child-communications-procedure (accessed 23 June 2014).

3. Convention on the Rights of the Child.

4. Council of Europe Convention on Prevention and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention), entered into force 1 August 2014. http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/convention-violence/convention/Convention%20210%20English.pdf (accessed 24 June 2014).