Children at the Heart of Human Rights
Centre for Children's Rights Studies
University of Geneva

Philip D. Jaffé is Professor at the University of Geneva’s Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences. He is also the Director of the Centre for Children's Rights which is located two hours away from Geneva on its new campus in Sion, Canton of Valais. Along with Jean Zermatten, he is responsible for the sector Child and Youth Policy within the Swiss Center of Expertise in Human Rights and serves on its Board. Trained in Geneva, New York and Boston, he worked several years as a clinical and legal psychologist in Massachusetts’ maximum security prison mental health system. After returning to Geneva, in addition to part-time (and then full-time) academic duties at the University of Geneva, he continued working in the prison system and developed a private practice as a psychotherapist and a court expert.

Areas of interest: hearing children in judicial proceedings, violence against children, children in conflict with the law, child-friendly justice, and the field of Children’s rights.