Child Protection: Children's Rights in Theory and Practice

Child Protection: Children's Rights in Theory and Practice, led by Jacqueline Bhabha of the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, examines why child protection fails and what it takes to protect children from violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect, including in migration, displacement, child labour, trafficking and child marriage. It covers the origins of child protection in international human rights law, how to analyse global child protection issues and the many actors involved, the effects of violence, exploitation and abuse on children's emotional, social and physical development and how to prevent and respond to them, standards for children in conflict or in contact with the law, and how to assess and strengthen a child protection system. The course links legal frameworks to the work of policymakers, lawyers, health workers, educators, law enforcement and social workers.

It is self-paced, sixteen weeks long at 2 to 5 hours per week, and rated introductory. Harvard lists it as free to audit on edX, with a verified certificate for $149.