International Children's Rights Law

Author: Ursula Kilkelly; Ton Liefaard
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
ISBN: 9789811041839
Published In: December 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Singapore ? Disclaimer:
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This book explores the meaning and implementation of international children's rights law, as laid down in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and related international and regional human rights instruments. It considers the application of international children's rights at the national level and addresses key procedural and institutional matters concerning children's rights implementation, including monitoring, complaints mechanisms, effective remedies, advocacy and international agenda-setting.

The book breaks new ground by analysing a wide range of international children's rights issues from a legal perspective. It incorporates a comparative perspective on children's rights law at the international, regional and domestic level and contains information on evidence-based strategies towards the implementation and enforcement of international children's rights law.

The book is targeted at academics, legal and other professionals, and advanced students. It analyses children's rights law in the following areas: implementation and enforcement; advocacy and standard setting; complaints and remedies; the child and the family; adoption; alternative care; protection from violence; civil rights of the child; economic, social and cultural rights; education; health; migration and refugees; children and the justice system; children with disabilities; deprivation of liberty; children's rights and digital technologies; war and disaster; sustainable development goals and further contemporary issues.

Part One: Social and Philosophical Issues Regarding Children's Roles and Rights

Chapter 1: Children's Human Rights Issues Overview

Chapter 2: Traditional Abuses of Children's Rights Viewed from the Present

Chapter 3: Sociological, Philosophical and Legal Arguments For and Against Privileging Children's Rights

Part Two: Drafting, Passage, and Analysis of The Convention on the Rights of Children (CROC)

Chapter 4: Drivers and Processes of CROC Negotiation

Chapter 5: Analysis and Assessment of the Standards Set by CROC

Chapter 6: The Establishment and Operation of the Committee on CROC

Part Three: Diffusion of Standards of Children's Rights

Chapter 7: Children's Rights Declared in European, African, and Latin American Human Rights Agreements

Chapter 8: Prominent Court Decisions Upholding Children's Rights

Chapter 9: The Proliferation of and Advocacy by Children's Rights NGOs, Policy Research Institutes, and Academics