Child rights and drug control in international law / / by Damon Barrett.

• Superior document: Stockholm Studies in Child Law and Children's Rights ; Volume 6
• VerfasserIn: Barrett, Damon,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Stockholm studies in child law and children's rights ; Volume 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Responding to the harms caused by drugs is one of the most challenging social policy issues of our time. In Child Rights and Drug Control on International Law , Damon Barrett explores the meaning of the child’s right to protection from drugs under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the r...

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Pernilla Leviner
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Overview and Context
• 1.2 Practical and Legal Challenges Relating to Children
• 1.3 Drugs, International Law and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
• 1.4 Argumentation and Institutional Practice: a Critical Approach
• 1.5 Outline and Summary
• 2 Detachment and Convergence: the History of Child Rights and Drug Control in International Law
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Children and Early Multilateral Drug Controls
• 2.3 The Bedrock of the System
• 2.4 Upheaval in the 1960s
• 2.5 The 1971 Convention
• 2.6 ‘An Especially Serious Threat to the Youth of the World’: a Change in Tone and the 1972 Protocol
• 2.7 ‘A Danger of Incalculable Gravity’: the 1988 Convention
• 2.8 A Human Right: Drugs and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
• 2.9 Conclusion
• 3 Fragmentation: the Treaty Framework
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 The UN Drug Conventions
• 3.3 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
• 3.4 The Treaties as Frames of Reference: Complementarity or Conflict?
• 3.5 Conclusion
• 4 Contention: the Politics of Article 33
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 The Human Rights and Drug Control ‘Positions’
• 4.3 Thematic Points of Disagreement
• 4.4 Article 33 and Its Relationship to the Drug Conventions
• 4.5 Resolution through the VCLT and Conflict Rules?
• 4.6 Conclusion
• 5 The Committee on the Rights of the Child: Content, Balance and Normative Framing of Concluding Observations
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Data Collection
• 5.3 Is a ‘Dialogue’ Taking Place?
• 5.4 The Content and Balance of Concluding Observations
• 5.5 Normative Framing
• 5.6 Conclusion
• 6 Drug Laws, Policies and Interventions: Monitoring ‘Appropriate Measures’?
• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 ‘Appropriate Measures’
• 6.3 Drug Laws and Policies
• 6.4 Response to Specific Information Raising Human Rights Concerns
• 6.5 Conclusion
• 7 Dynamics of Structural Bias
• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 The Committee’s ‘Preferences’
• 7.3 Practical Considerations
• 7.4 Conclusion
• 8 Conclusion
• 8.1 The Content of Article 33 and the Relationship between the Regimes
• 8.2 What Kind of Norm is Article 33?
• Annex 1: Content and Structure of the Drug Conventions
• Annex 2: Content and Structure of the CRC
• Bibliography
• Index.