The International Legal Protection of Children in Street Situations

Dr. Sylvia N. Agu has a background in legal academia and practice. Her educational credentials encompass degrees from Anglia Ruskin University, Queen Mary, University of London, and Cardiff University, all in the United Kingdom. She is a qualified Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales where her areas of work include Family, Immigration, Litigation, Property, and Business & Company Law. She obtained her doctorate degree from the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel (CAU), Germany. She has presented her work in the area of children in street situations at various conferences and is a member of The Childhood, Law & Policy Network at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research borders topics within Public International Law, dealing with aspects of human rights and humanitarian law, children’s rights, migration law, and juvenile justice within the children in street situations discourse. She has published, under previous name, in this area (Sylvia Nwamaraihe, Book Review on Yvonne Dutton’s ＂Rules, Politics, and the International Criminal Court - Committing to the Court,＂ German Yearbook of International Law 56 (2014) and Sylvia Nwamaraihe, ＂The International Legal Protection of Street Children＂ in Su Lyn Corcoran and Dimitrina Kaneva (eds), Being ’on the Margins’ Exploring Intersections, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2016). Previously, she lectured students on ’Introduction to Mergers & Acquisitions’ and the ’Language of International Law on the Rights of the Child’ at the Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany and on the International Business Management Course on ’Private International Law, European Union Law, and German Law’ at the VICTORIA International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany. She concurrently held the positions as a Researcher, Lecturer on ’International Criminal Law’ and ’International Law on the Rights of the Child, ’ and Assistant Editor and Project Manager for the German Yearbook of International Law, at the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the CAU, Germany. Her professional experience also includes positions at the Overseas Development Institute in London and at Centre 404, a charitable organisation that assists parents and caregivers of children with disabilities in London. Additionally, she contributed her time to Save the Children in the United Kingdom.