Wouter Vandenhole

Wouter Vandenhole teaches human rights and children’s rights. Between 2007 and 2018, he also held the UNICEF Chair in Children's Rights. He chairs the academic working party of the University Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, and is the chair of the non-governmental north-south organisation Broederlijk Delen. Wouter is a human rights and law-and-development scholar.  He is the lead convenor of SUSTJUSTICE.

Areas of Expertise:

Children's Rights

Human Rights

Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

Relationship Between Human Rights Law and Development

Selected Publications: 

• Vandenhole, W. et al. (2023) Als het regent in Nederland, druppelt het in Vlaanderen. Naar een nieuwe hervorming van interlandelijke adoptie in Vlaanderen.
• Bellinkx, V. et al. (2022) Addressing climate change through international human rights law : from (extra)territoriality to common concern of humankind.
• Vandenhole, W. (2021) Beyond a living apart together relationship : a children’s rights perspective on child well-being.​
  

Full Publication List: repository.uantwerpen.be/acadbib/irua/06895/N​

Selected Projects: 

• 2022 - 2024 - Equality beyond non-discrimination: redefining the boundaries of human rights law before socio-economic inequality.
  
• 2022 - 2027 - Resilience through empowerment: overcoming socioeconomic and environmental risk factors for child marriage in Tanzania through a positive engagement with customs & traditions (Re-Empower).
• 2022 - 2026 - Climate Change Law in Europe.