Professor Robyn Linde

Profile

Robyn Linde is a professor of political science and the director of the International Nongovernmental Organizations Studies program at Rhode Island College in Providence, R.I. Her book, The Globalization of Childhood: The international diffusion of norms and law against the child death penalty, was published in 2016 by Oxford University Press. She has also been published in the Journal of Human Rights, the European Journal of International Relations, Case Research Journal, Radical Teacher, the International Journal of Minority and Group Rights, and the International Journal of Children’s Rights. She has two forthcoming chapters, one on NGO legitimacy and accountability and another on the protection of children involved in the sex industry. She is the coordinator of AmnestyPVD in Providence and the Amnesty International Legislative Coordinator for the State of Rhode Island.

Research

Publications

(2019) “The Rights of Queer Children: The denial of children’s sexual agency in the Convention on the Rights of the Child,” International Journal of Children’s Rights; (2018) “Gatekeeper Persuasion and Issue Adoption: Amnesty International and the transnational LGBTQ network,” Journal of Human Rights; (2016)The Globalization of Childhood: The International Diffusion of Norms and Law against the Child Death Penalty, Oxford University Press; (2014) “The Globalization of Childhood: The international diffusion of norms and law against the child death penalty,” European Journal of International Relations.

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