Professor Emerita Geraldine Van Bueren KC is s one of the original drafters of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and also helped draft the United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty, the UNHCR Guidelines on Refugee Children and the United Nations Programme of Action on Children in the Criminal Justice System. She is a recipient of the Child Rights Lawyer Award.
Professor Van Bueren is a barrister, a member of Doughty Street Chambers and has been interviewed about her work on children’s rights by Angelina Jolie in Time magazine and is the co-author of Know Your Rights and Claim Them - A Guide for Youth (Angelina Jolie and Geraldine Van Bueren)