Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch (IUKB)

 

Dr. Ruggiero holds a Master of Law and a PhD in Promotion and Protection of Children’s Rights from the University of Molise, Italy. She is Scientific collaborator at the Children’s Rights Unit of the University Institute Kurt Bösch (IUKB) in Sion, Switzerland where she works as coordinator of the Master of Advanced Studies in Children's Rights. She is also senior lecturer at the University of Padua, Italy at the Faculty of Political Science in a course on Social Policies Dedicated to Childhood. From 2008 to 2013 she had been scientific coordinator of the European Network of National Observatories on Childhood (ChildONEurope), Istituto degli Innocenti in Florence, Italy. Prior to these positions she worked as researcher at the, International Organization for Migration, at the UNICEF-Innocenti Research Centre and as external professor on children’s rights at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University of Molise, Italy. Her research interests and publications include ombudspersons for children, implementation of children’s rights, de-institutionalization, trafficking in human beings, child witchcraft allegations and EU law and policies on children's rights.