Child Trafficking in China: A Human Rights-Based Perspective

Dr. Han Ling is a young scholar in the field of Human Rights. In January 2020, she received her PhD degree in the multidisciplinary course "Human Rights, Society and Multi-level Governance" at the University of Padova, where she spent almost years for the study of human rights. influenced by her childhood experiences, she has paid particular interests in women's and children's rights. In 2013 and 2014, she undertook an internship with the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights where she increased her interest in international human rights institutions. The main research area of Dr. Han is child trafficking in China, which involves many other topics, including the right of children, women's rights, migration and refugees, and transnational organised crimes. Other research interests are, among others, international human rights institutions, international law and human rights law, human rights protection mechanisms, human rights and international relations, and human rights education. After her doctorate study, she spent two years at the Human Rights Centre "Antonio Papisaca" at the University of Padova, first as a collaborative researcher and then as a Postdoctoral researcher. During this period, her research focus was on the role of human rights in EU-China relations. She also undertook a number of duties such as teaching assistant, tutor, and event organiser. For personal reasons, she moves back to China in September 2022 and will start work as a lecturer at the Department of Law at Guangzhou University by the end of this year.

韓玲博士是人權領域的年輕學者。2020年1月，她在帕多瓦大學完成了跨學科課程「人權、社會與多層次治理」的博士學位，她花了近幾年的時間研究人權。受到童年經歷的影響，她對婦女和兒童權利特別感興趣。2013年和2014年，她在聯合國人權事務高級專員辦事處的消除對婦女歧視委員會實習，這增加了她對國際人權機構的興趣。韓博士的主要研究領域是中國的兒童販運，涉及許多其他主題，包括兒童權利、婦女權利、移民和難民以及跨國有組織犯罪。其他研究興趣包括國際人權機構、國際法和人權法、人權保護機制、人權與國際關係以及人權教育等。在博士學習結束後，她在帕多瓦大學的「安東尼奧·帕皮薩卡」人權中心度過了兩年時間，先是作為合作研究員，然後成為博士後研究員。在這段期間，她的研究重點是人權在歐盟與中國關係中的角色。她還擔任了教學助理、導師和活動組織者等多項職務。出於個人原因，她於2022年9月回到中國，並將在今年年底開始在廣州大學法學院擔任講師的工作。