Elena Patrizi

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Dr. Elena Patrizi is a Postdoctoral Researcher in children’s rights studies, human rights and transitional justice at the Centre for Children’s Rights Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland. She obtained a PhD from the Faculty of Law, University of Geneva with a thesis on reparation of historical violations of children’s rights and transitional justice.

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A Fourth Optional Protocol to the CRC to Strengthen the Right to Education in International Law?

Introduction The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), adopted by the General Assembly on 20 November 1989, is the most widely ratified treaty within the UN human rights system. Comprising 54 articles, the CRC covers the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of children, recognising them as individual rights holders. Between…

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