Bruce Adamson
Strategic Lead - Human Rights @Elevate Great
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WORK HISTORY
Strategic Lead - Human Rights @Elevate Great
Strategic positioning and decision-making with a focus on a rights-based approach in the widest sense. Ensuring investments and wider activities are underpinned and informed by a rights-based approach, including a critical appraisal of data quality and representativeness. Acting as ambassador for early years/prevention mission for a rights/legal/political audience in the UK and beyond. Focused on delivering demonstrable real-world impact for early years children and future generations.
EDUCATION
Victoria University of Wellington
LLB, BA, Law, History, Classics
Åbo Akademi University
Diploma in the Advanced Protection of International Human Rights, Law
Central European University
Human Rights Litigation - Summer School
Åbo Akademi University
Justiciability of Economic Social and Cultural Rights
SKILLS
ABOUT BRUCE ADAMSON
Lawyer who has qualified in three jurisdictions (New Zealand, England and Wales, Scotland) with extensive international experience in the promotion and protection of human rights. Vice President of Eurochild; Vice Chair of the Child Friendly Governance Project; Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; Board Member of the Human Rights Consortium; Advisory Groups for Daphne-CHILD and the Scottish Independent Human Rights Fund; Vice Chair of the Scotland Committee of the National Lottery Community Fund; Strategic Lead on Human Rights at Elevate Great. Formerly: Professor in Practice at University of Glasgow School of Law, Children and Young People\'s Commissioner Scotland; Chair of European Network of Ombuds for Children; UN representative for Global Alliance of NHRIs, Legal Officer at the Scottish Human Rights Commission; Coordinator of the European Group of National Human Rights Institutions; Independent Expert on Fundamental Rights for the European Commission TAIEX Programme (Turkey, Ukraine, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo.), and projects for international and regional human rights organisations. Former Advisory Board for Advancing Child Rights in Strategic Litigation (ACRiSL), and Implementation Handbook on Child Human Rights Defenders. Co chair of the rights working group of the Scottish Independent Care Review; Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Scottish Child Law Centre; Member of Scotland\'s Children\'s Panel.Specialties: Human Rights, Children\'s Rights, National Human Rights Institutions, Constitutional law
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