Overview
- Provides a comprehensive global and comparative compilation of legal analyses of substantive and procedural children’s rights issues
- Offers a perspective that is innovative and useful for both academia and practitioners
- Broadens and updates the state of the literature on international children’s rights from a legal and human rights perspective
Part of the book series: International Human Rights (IHR)
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Table of contents (23 entries)
Keywords
- international children’s rights
- United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
- UNCRC
- human rights
- child law
- youth justice
- European Convention on Human Rights
- family law
- child-friendly justice
- child protection
- child abuse
- domestic servitude
- bonded labor
- child trafficking
- child slavery
- child soldiers
- female infanticide
- arranged marriage
- forced marriage
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ursula Kilkelly is Professor of Law at the School of Law, University College Cork in Ireland. Over a 20 year career Ursula has researched the area of international children’s rights law, exploring the potential of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Convention on Human Rights to realise the rights of children in various areas. Ursula has published in international peer reviewed journals and prestigious collections and undertaken commissioned research for international bodies like the Council of Europe and UNICEF on children’s rights issues including youth justice and detention, rights based advocacy and the legal implementation of the UNCRC. Her work directly informs law and policy reform at a national and European level and she works collaboratively across jurisdictions with multiple non-governmental and legal organisations. She is currently co-editor of Youth Justice, An International Journal. At UCC, Ursula directs the ChildLaw Clinic which provides student-led legal research services for those who seek to develop law and policy from a children’s rights perspective and in 2018, she launched the Centre for Children’s Rights and Family Law with colleagues in the School of Law. Ursula teaches International Children’s Rights Law and Juvenile Justice on the LLM in Children’s Rights and Family Law and welcomes PhD students in all areas of children’s rights.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Human Rights of Children
Editors: Ursula Kilkelly, Ton Liefaard
Series Title: International Human Rights
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3182-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Law and Criminology, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-3182-3Due: 23 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2523-8841
Series E-ISSN: 2523-885X
Topics: Human Rights, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict