Dr. Angela Melchiorre
Professors Phone:+39 041 2720937 Email:angela.melchiorre@eiuc.org
Dr. Angela Melchiorre is the Programme Director of the European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MA).
Before returning to EIUC, Dr. Melchiorre worked as Research Coordinator for the Right to Education Project within ActionAid International, as Lecturer in Human Rights at the University of London and as Human Rights Advisor for the Italian Permanent Mission at the UN in Geneva and New York. In her personal capacity, she also worked as a consultant for the first UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education Prof. Katarina Tomaševski, UNESCO-IBE, and UNICEF-Italy.
Dr. Melchiorre’s areas of expertise are children’s rights, the right to education, and the UN human rights system. She is the author of At what age… are school-children employed, married and taken to court?, a worldwide comparative analysis of minimum ages under the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). As a spin-off from this work, she wrote her PhD thesis on child marriage and the CRC.
Dr. Melchiorre’s history with the E.MA Programme speaks by itself of her commitment: she graduated from the course in 2000, worked as E.MA tutor in 2000/2001, was awarded the E.MA Internship in 2001, participated in the E.MA Fellowship in 2003 and acted as Geneva liaison officer for the E.MA Fellowship in 2004.Dr. Angela Melchiorre is the E.MA Programme Director of the European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MA).
Before returning to EIUC, Dr. Melchiorre worked as Research Coordinator for the Right to Education Project within ActionAid International, as Lecturer in Human Rights at the University of London and as Human Rights Advisor for the Italian Permanent Mission at the UN in Geneva and New York. In her personal capacity, she also worked as a consultant for the first UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education Prof. Katarina Tomaševski, UNESCO-IBE, and UNICEF-Italy.
Dr. Melchiorre’s areas of expertise are children’s rights, the right to education, and the UN human rights system. She is the author of At what age… are school-children employed, married and taken to court?, a worldwide comparative analysis of minimum ages under the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). As a spin-off from this work, she wrote her PhD thesis on child marriage and the CRC.
Dr. Melchiorre’s history with the E.MA Programme speaks by itself of her commitment: she graduated from the course in 2000, worked as E.MA tutor in 2000/2001, was awarded the E.MA Internship in 2001, participated in the E.MA Fellowship in 2003 and acted as Geneva liaison officer for the E.MA Fellowship in 2004.
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