Ms Özlem Lakatos
Scientific Collaborator, Centre for Children's Rights Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Email: ozlem.lakatos@unige.ch
Profile
Özlem Lakatos is a Scientific Collaborator at the Center for Children's Rights Studies of the University of Geneva. Since September 2017, she has been working alongside Professor Philip D. Jaffé, a Member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Her primary activities include research, teaching, supervising master’s students’ academic work, and coordinating an annual 4-week seminar on Child Abuse and Violence. She co-founded the association “30 Ans de Droits de l’Enfant” with Prof. Philip D. Jaffé and Dr. hc Jean Zermatten, a former Member of the UNCRC (2005-2013). The association was established to coordinate international celebrations marking the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 2019. She is pursuing a PhD in Social Sciences at the Institute of Gender Studies, University of Geneva, focusing on the international rights of girls, intersecting women’s and children’s rights. Using a gender and postcolonial approach, she studies the construction of the category “girl-s”, both historically and analytically. In the Autumn Semester 2024, she will be a Visiting Researcher Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, City University of New York.