Assoc. Prof. Velina Todorova, PhD, re-elected as a member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

On 24 November 2020 Assoc. Prof. Velina Todorova, PhD, was re-elected a member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child during the 18th Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, held in New York.
The terms of office of nine of the Committee's eighteen members expire on 28 February 2021. Assoc. Prof. Velina Todorova, as the Bulgarian candidate, received the most votes – 149 from the participants in the meeting. She was followed by the candidates from Japan (145 votes), Belgium (143), Uruguay (128), Ethiopia (127), Georgia (125), South Africa (123), Bhutan (120) and Chad (113).
Assoc. Prof. Todorova is a long-standing scholar at the Institute for the State and the Law, a member of the Department of Civil Law, and a recognised expert in the field of children's rights and of family and inheritance law in general.

Congratulations to Assoc. Prof. Todorova! We wish her fruitful work for the well-being of children around the world!