Open lecture Child’s Human Rights by Carla Marcelino Gomes
Friday December 9 (10:00-11:20; 11:30-12:40)
Saturday December 10 (11:00-12:20; 12:30-13:50)
Monday December 12 (10:40 – 12:10)
Carla Marcelino Gomes has a Law Degree (1996), by the University of Coimbra, and has also studied at the Universities of Leuven (1994-95), in Belgium, Utrecht, in the Netherlands (1994) and at the European University Institute, in Florence, Italy (2000). She has a Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (Italy, 2001), and is specialised in the area of the Rights of the Child having written her thesis on Trafficking of Human Beings, particularly, the Trafficking of Children in Central and Western Africa, developed in cooperation and with the support of the Innocenti Research Centre, Unicef, in Florence. She is currently finishing a PhD Programme in “International Politics and Conflict Resolution”, at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, a programme integrated in the European Doctorate Enhancement on Peace and Conflict Studies, organised within the framework of the HumanitarianNet. She is writing her thesis in the areas of transitional justice and child soldiers. She has conducted research at the University of Deusto, within the framework of the mobility programme Marie Curie, in the academic year 2008-2009.
She is the Project coordinator and researcher at the Ius Gentium Conimbrigae/Human Rights Centre (IGC/HRC), Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, where she works since September 2001 (an activity which is currently suspended due to the fact that she was given a PhD scholarship by FCT). She was an invited lecturer (2007 and 2008) on the European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (EMa), in Venice, in subjects related to post-conflict reconstruction. She is also a lecturer on the Post-Graduation Course in Human Rights, in IGC/HRC, which corresponds to the second semester of EMa, in the area of “Protection of Human Rights at Universal Level” (UN), “Children´s Rights” and “Post-conflict reconstruction”, since 2002. She is the co- Executive Director of the Course in Peace Operations and Humanitarian Action, developed together with the Portuguese Army’s Intervention Brigade, in Coimbra, since 2010.
She regularly takes part in conferences and events with national and international scope (Brazil, Cabo-Verde, Spain, USA, Slovenia, Indonesia, Ireland, Switzerland, etc.). She has been member of several juries, namely in international master theses, as well as in national and international academic competitions. She has publications in the areas of her expertise. She has participated in several international post-reconstruction missions, in particular, in areas related to institutional building and legislative drafting, together with governmental entities, the UN and NGOs.
