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Jonathan Todres

@jtodres.bsky.social
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Dad; Husband; Law Professor. Works on #ChildRights, #HumanRightsEducation, #YouthParticipation, and #HumanTrafficking Latest book: nyupress.org/9781479825486/children…

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The Regulatory Review @theregreview.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Government agencies often fail to account for children’s needs, so they should elevate children’s voices and secure their rights through the VR3 model, argues @jtodres.bsky.social of Georgia State University College of Law. www.theregreview.org/2026/05/18/t...
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Jonathan Todres @jtodres.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Dignity matters! Pls take 3 min to read this thoughtful and important essay by Farzeen Rose, a student in the LLM program in #ChildrensRights @leidenlaw.bsky.social www.leidenlawblog.nl/articles/wha...
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What’s in a trash bag?
Children moving between foster care placements are often required to carry their belongings in trash bags. New York’s new law addresses this, reflecting growing attention to dignity and identity.
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Jonathan Todres @jtodres.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Thanks to @theregreview.bsky.social for providing an opportunity to share my research on building govt capacity to support children. #ChildRights #PublicPolicy
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Jonathan Todres @jtodres.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Can we agree it’s absurd to omit author names on student Notes? #LawReview editors, please end this practice. Today I starting reading a Note and wanted to reach out to the student. No author listed, not even at the end. Let’s stop devaluing student work! #Law #LegalEducation
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Jonathan Todres @jtodres.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
As January is National Slavery & #HumanTrafficking Prevention Month, it’s as good a time as any to hold all involved with Epstein accountable. Well, as good a time except for any other day in the last however many years that the govt has been sitting on that information.
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Jonathan Todres @jtodres.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Very much appreciate this recent coverage of the #VR3model, which is my attempt at a framework for building more child-supportive institutions. Grateful to @brucelesley.bsky.social, whose work I truly admire, for this coverage. #ChildrensRights #PublicInstitutions #Governance
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Big Ideas for Kids: A Blueprint for Building Government That Works for Children
From commissions to commissioners, it's time to institutionalize our support for children.
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Monica Iyer @monicavisalam.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
In spite of <waves hands around vaguely>, I'm back on my optimistic bullshit for the holiday season. Wrote in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review Online about how we can maybe use climate litigation to bring about transformative change: hrlr.law.columbia.edu/hrlr-online/...
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Climate Equality Litigation and Transformative Justice – Columbia Human Rights Law Review
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Bruce Lesley @brucelesley.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Money Matters: The Nation’s Retreat from Kids brucelesley.substack.com/p/money-matt... First Focus on Children released our annual report yesterday, Children's Budget 2025. The findings show a 30+% decline in the share of federal funding to children from 2021 to Trump's FY 2026 budget proposal.
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Money Matters: The Nation’s Retreat from Kids
Federal spending on children has dropped to historic lows, but the steepest cuts are ahead.
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Jonathan Todres @jtodres.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Happy to share my latest article, in which I propose a new framework that can help gov't agencies become more supportive of children. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #ChildRights #HumanRights #Governance #Youth
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🎉Love sports? 🎉Passionate about securing #childrights? 🎉 @ursulak.bsky.social & @jtodres.bsky.social discuss how sports provide key setting for #HumanRightsEducation 🎉This & all 14 articles & 9 book reviews in HRER 8(1) free to download @tandfonline.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Sport as a space for human rights education and children’s rights
Children’s participation in sport presents a key opportunity for the advancement of human rights education. Human rights education is recognised as vital to the realisation of human rights. However...
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Jonathan Todres @jtodres.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Important week next week as the UN will start work exploring new int’l law on the right to education. It’s time: every country must commit to ensuring every child can access education Thks to @bedeonkidrights.bsky.social for sharing my essay & for his leadership on the issue #ChildRights #Education
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Jonathan Todres @jtodres.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Let's end the outdated notion that children aren’t mature enough to participate in decisions that affect their lives (it's their right!). Remarkable insights from pre-school children in this study #ChildRights #Education #YouthVoice #Inclusion #Participation www.nurseryworld.co.uk/content/opin...
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How would 1,000 pre-school children choose to improve education? ‘Make all schools free and put lots of toys in the playground’ - Nursery World
What would pre-school children across the world do to improve access to early years education? Erini Gkouskou found out.
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Bede Sheppard @bedeonkidrights.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Fantastic campaign from the Irish Network for Education Worldwide urging Ireland to back the proposed treaty to strengthen kids' right to FREE education: educationworldwide.ie/advocacy-pol... Hoping @simonharrisireland.bsky.social adds Ireland's name to the majority of EU states already on board!
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Campaign for Free Education Worldwide - Operational Protocol 4 for the UNCRC
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Jonathan Todres @jtodres.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
My recent essay for @cnn.com on the importance of supporting #Education rights for all children. #ChildRights #HumanTrafficking www.cnn.com/world/guest-...
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Guest essay: To be anti-trafficking requires support for education rights | CNN
Instead of attending school, millions of children are exploited in forced labor. But education itself can be a key solution to tackling child labor, writes law professor Jonathan Todres.
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Jonathan Todres @jtodres.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
An important opportunity to contribute to the development of #ChildRights (and #HumanRights law more broadly) www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...
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OHCHR | Call for submissions for Open-ended intergovernmental working group on an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
BackgroundBackgroundOn 10 July 2024, the Human Rights Council adopted resolution 56/5, in which it decided to establish an open-ended intergovernmental working group of the Human Rights Council with t...
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Jonathan Todres @jtodres.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Finally joined @bsky.app. Kicking off with an article that @ursulak.bsky.social & I published recently on #Sport, #ChildRights, and #HumanRightsEducation — fair to say I’m obsessed about all three. Sport as a space for human rights education & children’s rights www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Sport as a space for human rights education and children’s rights
Children’s participation in sport presents a key opportunity for the advancement of human rights education. Human rights education is recognised as vital to the realisation of human rights. However...
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