The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child : : taking stock after 25 years and looking ahead / / edited by Ton Liefaard, Julia Sloth-Nielsen.

In 2014 the world’s most widely ratified human rights treaty, one specifically for children, reached the milestone of its twenty-fifth anniversary. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and in the time since then it has entered a new century, res...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill/Nijhoff,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (964 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Ton Liefaard and Julia Sloth-Nielsen
  • 25 Years CRC: Reflecting on Successes, Failures and the Future / Ton Liefaard and Julia Sloth-Nielsen
  • The Convention on the Rights of the Child: 25 Years and Beyond / Vitit Muntarbhorn
  • Protecting Children across Borders: The Interaction between the CRC and the Hague Children’s Conventions / Hans van Loon
  • Legal Challenges and Strategies for Combating Online Sexual Violence against Children: Making Children’s Rights Future-Proof / Corinne Dettmeijer-Vermeulen
  • Are ‘Best Interests’ a Pillar or a Problem for Implementing the Human Rights of Children? / Nigel Cantwell
  • Child Rights in the United States: 25 Years Later and Counting / Yvonne Vissing
  • CRC Dialogues: Does the Committee on the Rights of the Child ‘Speak’ to the National Courts? / Meda Couzens
  • Access to Justice: A Fundamental Right for all Children / Laurene Graziani
  • The Role of the Professions in Effective Implementation of the CRC / Jane Williams
  • Closing the Gap between Social and Formal Accountability: Exploring the Role of Independent Human Rights Institutions for Children / Vanessa Sedletzki
  • The Role of International Law in the Judicial Interpretation of New African Children’s Laws: The Kenyan Example / Godfrey O. Odongo
  • The Best Interests of the Child: A Guiding Principle in Administering Cross-Border Child-Related Matters? / Mirela Župan
  • The European Court of Human Rights’ Jurisprudence Regarding the Segregation of Roma Schoolchildren: A Children’s Rights Perspective / Zsuzsanna Nyitray
  • The Main Challenges of Implementing the Procedural Rights of the Child in the Family Justice Systems of Some Southeast European Countries / Slađana Aras Kramar and Ivana Milas Klarić
  • (Why) Should Children Have Rights? A Philosophical Perspective / Marieke Janne Hopman
  • The Voice of the Child in Juvenile Justice Procedures / Stephanie Rap
  • Will New Zealand’s Youth Justice System Take the Next Step? / Alison Cleland
  • Children’s Rights and Australian Migration Law: Are they Mutually Exclusive? / Anna Copeland
  • Unaccompanied and Unprotected: The Systemic Vulnerability of Unaccompanied Migrant Children in South Africa / Kirsten Anderson , Kara Apland and Elizabeth Yarrow
  • The Prevention of Child Statelessness at Birth: A Multilevel Perspective / Peter Rodrigues and Jill Stein
  • Protection of Internally Displaced Children and the Guiding Principles of Internally Displaced Persons / Rita Nunes
  • Protecting the Victims of Child Trafficking / Philip E. Veerman
  • Child Rights Research for 2040: A European Commission Perspective / Margaret Tuite
  • A Future of Mess, Confusion and Complexity? Linking Children’s Rights and Knowledge Management in a Critical Research Agenda beyond 25 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child / Sara Lembrechts
  • Protecting the Locus of Vulnerability: Preliminary Ideas for Guidance on Protecting the Rights of the Child in International Commercial Surrogacy / Claire Achmad
  • Taking Stock of Bullying and Cyberbullying Research and Introducing a Child Rights Perspective / Mona Paré , Tara Collins and Miad Ranjbar
  • Child Rights as a Basis for the Regulation of Food Marketing: The Role of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child / Katharina Eva Ó Cathaoir.