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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
requires States Parties to take all appropriate measures to
implement the rights in the Convention. As we celebrate the 30th
anniversary of the Convention's adoption, focus has shifted onto
the measures being taken at national level to give effect to
children's rights with specific reference to legal incorporation
both direct and indirect. The way in which the CRC is given legal
effect is highly contingent upon the constitutional and legal
systems of individual countries and can best be understood by those
writing from the specific national context. So this books combines
individual contributions that address the experience of legal
incorporation in selected countries by their national experts, with
comparative analysis of the international landscape from the
world's leading authorities on legal implementation of the CRC. The
result is an up-to-date, comparative and international analysis of
the progress made around the world to incorporate the CRC, in the
first comprehensive and analytical presentation of these issues.
Incorporating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into
National Law is a rich resource central to the work of every lawyer
with an interest in the CRC or the incorporation of international
legal instruments.
Childrens human rights are regularly violated around the world.
Child soldiers, child slavery, and child prostitution are some of
the more graphic examples this books deals with, but hungry, sick,
and orphaned children are equally at risk and more prevalent. In
the United States, children suffer similar abuses, but some are
unique to the United States justice system. Unlike most of the rest
of the world, the U.S. is a well-developed western nation in which
juvenile offenders can be tried as adults and subjected to capital
punishment. This book brings together a wide array of original
essays from a variety of academic and practitioner perspectives on
human rights and the status of children. The details are disturbing
the message, powerful We must vigorously extend the universal
declaration of human rights to the most vulnerable humans of
all--the children of the world, starting at home in the United
States.
This book ​presents an original synthesis of the leading
international research on children in conflict with the law,
providing an evidence base for a rights-based justice system.
Informed by international children’s rights standards, this book
presents relevant research findings in a clear, succinct and
accessible manner, identifying the key evidence underpinning three
rights-based themes of Prevention, Diversion and Justice, and
Reintegration. This book is the first analysis to map leading
inter-disciplinary research against the international children’s
rights framework in relation to children and the justice system. In
this way, it provides a unique evidence base for the implementation
of children’s rights in youth justice and will support all those
seeking to study, advocate or implement progressive approaches to
children in conflict with the law.  Â
The articles in this volume shed light on some of the major
tensions in the field of children's rights (such as the ways in
which children's best interests and respect for their autonomy can
be reconciled), challenges (such as how the CRC can be made a
reality in the lives of children in the face of ignorance, apathy
or outright opposition) and critiques (whether children's rights
are a Western imposition or a successful global consensus). Along
the way, the writing covers a myriad of issues, encompassing the
opposition to the CRC in the US; gay parenting: Dr Seuss's take on
children's autonomy; the voice of neonates on their health care;
the role of NGO in supporting child labourers in India, and young
people in detention and more.
The European Convention on Human Rights is the most successful
system for the enforcement of human rights in the world. However,
to date its full potential for protecting children's rights has not
been explored as attention has focused on the UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child. This unique book provides the first analysis
of the extensive case law of the Commission and the Court of Human
Rights on all issues concerning children and their rights. This
study is important as a study of the regional protection of
children's rights and, moreover, the case law itself can be
directly applied in the legal system of nearly every European
country, including the UK. The book includes chapters on the rights
of the child under the European Convention on Human Rights in
relation to education, protection from abuse, the right to
identity, child care, juvenile justice, health care and immigration
and the family. It also explores the potential of the Strasbourg
mechanism for the protection of children's rights and thus provides
a practical and vital guide to the study and use of the European
Convention in the broad area of children's rights.
The articles in this volume shed light on some of the major
tensions in the field of children's rights (such as the ways in
which children's best interests and respect for their autonomy can
be reconciled), challenges (such as how the CRC can be made a
reality in the lives of children in the face of ignorance, apathy
or outright opposition) and critiques (whether children's rights
are a Western imposition or a successful global consensus). Along
the way, the writing covers a myriad of issues, encompassing the
opposition to the CRC in the US; gay parenting: Dr Seuss's take on
children's autonomy; the voice of neonates on their health care;
the role of NGO in supporting child labourers in India, and young
people in detention and more.
The UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty detailed many
children's poor experiences in detention, highlighting the urgent
need for reform. Applying a child-centred model of detention that
fulfils the rights of the child under the five themes of provision,
protection, participation, preparation and partnership, this
original book illustrates how reform can happen. Drawing on
Ireland's experience of transforming law, policy and practice, and
combining theory with real-life experiences, this compelling book
demonstrates how children's rights can be implemented in detention.
This important case study of reform presents a powerful argument
for a progressive, rights-based approach to child detention. Worthy
of international application, the book shares practical insights
into how theory can be translated into practice.
The European Convention on Human Rights is the most successful
system for the enforcement of human rights in the world. However,
to date its full potential for protecting children's rights has not
been explored as attention has focused on the UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child. This unique book provides the first analysis
of the extensive case law of the Commission and the Court of Human
Rights on all issues concerning children and their rights. This
study is important as a study of the regional protection of
children's rights and, moreover, the case law itself can be
directly applied in the legal system of nearly every European
country, including the UK. The book includes chapters on the rights
of the child under the European Convention on Human Rights in
relation to education, protection from abuse, the right to
identity, child care, juvenile justice, health care and immigration
and the family. It also explores the potential of the Strasbourg
mechanism for the protection of children's rights and thus provides
a practical and vital guide to the study and use of the European
Convention in the broad area of children's rights.
Following the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on
the Rights of the Child in 2020, and the creation of the UN
Sustainable Development Goals, there is increased interest in and a
need to develop national human rights' bodies for children's
rights. This book provides an in-depth look at one domestic
independent children's rights institution: the Irish Ombudsman for
Children's Office, to highlight the learnings for an international
audience and the methodologies that can be used to promote and
protect children's rights at a national level. Co-authored by
Ireland's first Ombudsman for Children and a children's rights
professor, the book will present an original and informed analysis
of how a national human rights institution can advocate, most
effectively, for the rights of children. By using illustrative case
studies, the book will highlight how the powers of a national human
rights institution can be put to strategic use to address specific
children's rights deficits in areas of child protection, youth
detention and public awareness about children's rights. Each
chapter focusses on a case study, identifies a problem, the
approach or intervention by the Ombudsman for Children, the outcome
and reflects on lessons learned. It ensures that the cases can be
extracted, examined and replicated in other jurisdictions by an
international community interested in the promotion, monitoring and
protection of children's rights. It speaks to those interested in
Human Rights; Children's Rights; Socio-legal studies, Social Work;
Childhood Studies; Administrative Law, Constitutional Law and
International Law, and to practitioners and policy-makers in this
field.
The collection aims to inspire readers with new approaches to
implementing and monitoring the United Nations Convention on the
Rights of the Child, to make rights 'real' in children's lives.
Children's human rights are internationally recognised in the
legally binding international treaty-the UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, the most ratified of all human rights
treaties. Although measures are increasingly being taken to
implement the Convention at a national level, more needs to be done
to ensure that children's rights are recognised and supported in
their daily lives. This collection brings together the latest
research on new approaches to embedding children's rights into
national law and policies, with contributions from academics,
practitioners and importantly young activists, from the UK and
beyond. This book will be of interest to all human rights
advocates, particularly policy makers and practitioners looking for
new ways in which to make children's rights real. The chapters in
this book were originally published as a special issue of The
International Journal of Human Rights.
The UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty detailed many
children's poor experiences in detention, highlighting the urgent
need for reform. Applying a child-centred model of detention that
fulfils the rights of the child under the five themes of provision,
protection, participation, preparation and partnership, this
original book illustrates how reform can happen. Drawing on
Ireland's experience of transforming law, policy and practice, and
combining theory with real-life experiences, this compelling book
demonstrates how children's rights can be implemented in detention.
This important case study of reform presents a powerful argument
for a progressive, rights-based approach to child detention. Worthy
of international application, the book shares practical insights
into how theory can be translated into practice.
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