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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

This book examines the impact of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on national and international jurisprudence, since its adoption in 1989. It offers state of the art knowledge on the functions, challenges and limitations of the CRC in domestic, regional and international children's rights litigation. Litigating the Rights of the Child provides insight in the role of the CRC in domestic jurisprudence in ten countries from different parts of the world, with civil law, common law and Islamic law systems. In addition, it offers analyses of the jurisprudence of regional courts, in Europe and the Americas, and of human rights treaty bodies, including the Human Rights Committee, Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. This book presents a global and comparative picture on the use of the CRC in litigation and identifies emerging trends. This book serves as an important source of reference and inspiration for academics, students, legal professionals, including judges and lawyers, and (inter)national organisations working in the area of children's rights

In Caribisch Nederland wordt een apart jeugdstrafrecht ingevoerd. Naar verwachting treedt in de loop van 2020 wetgeving in werking waarmee specifieke bepalingen voor jongeren die in aanraking komen met politie en justitie gaan gelden op Bonaire, Sint Eustatius en Saba (BES). Met de introductie van het jeugdstrafrecht wordt het mogelijk om jeugddetentie toe te passen en krijgt de buitengerechtelijke afdoening een wettelijke basis. Dit onderzoek verschaft inzicht in de nieuwe wettelijke regeling en de aanpassingen in de jeugdstrafrechtelijke keten. Speciale aandacht is hierbij uitgegaan naar de wetgeving in andere delen van het Nederlandse Koninkrijk en de verplichtingen die voortvloeien uit het VN-Kinderrechtenverdrag. Ook presenteert het belangrijke data over jongeren in het strafrecht en rapporteert over de ervaringen van sleutelpersonen in de (jeugd)strafrechtketen in Caribisch Nederland. Daarmee vormt dit onderzoek de basis voor het opzetten van een kwantitatieve en kwalitatieve monitor om de doeltreffendheid en doelmatigheid van de invoering van een jeugdstrafrecht in Caribisch Nederland te kunnen bepalen

This book aims to provide insight in the state of children in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the implementation of children's rights as laid down in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and developments in this regard over the years. The book provides a source of information for further scientific research, development of policies and legislation and societal and political debate. The first part of the publication presents a general picture of the most important developments and trends in children's rights implementation in the Netherlands, through an overview of statistics, law reform and policymaking, also in the context of significant international developments. The second part offers an in-depth study of a relevant, topical and/or emerging children's rights theme. The book starts with an editorial commentary in which the different parts are connected and overall reflections are given. The book aims to contribute to the education and (post-academic) training of students and professionals from the Netherlands and abroad

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

Klappentext: Millions of children are on the move worldwide. Children are fleeing conflicts and wars. They move with or without their parents to attain a better future. Children on the move is not a new phenomenon, but its scale is without precedent. UN reports suggests that there are almost 50 million children who have migrated or who have been forcibly displaced. It is also reported that children form half the global refugee population and that many flee from violence, conflict and insecurity. Children who are migrants or refugees often find themselves in a particular vulnerable position, despite rather strong entitlements to human rights protection, as laid down in international and regional legal instruments including the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted 30 years ago. This book presents a collection of scientific papers presented at the conference 'Safeguarding Children's Rights in Immigration Law', organised by the Institute of Immigration Law and the Department of Child Law of Leiden Law School, at Leiden University in November 2018. It reflects the growing concern for children and children's rights in immigration in academia and practice. It also shows the diversity of issues related to immigration and children, including family reunification, detention, participation, human trafficking and the rights of siblings in the context of migration, as well as the significance of regional legal systems and infrastructures for the protection of children on the move. --