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Abstract
The last three decades have seen an explosion of academic, advocacy and policy-maker interest in both the theory and the practice of children's rights. There is a growing global body of strategic litigation focused on the advancement of those rights through positive legal and/or social change.
In this context, child rights have primarily played an 'outward-facing' role: used as a schema that should constrain or mandate the actions of external decision-makers that are the targets of litigation. However, children's rights have not generally been used as a framework by which to assess, and as necessary, critique strategic litigation practice—i.e. as a lens to be turned inwards by litigators to consider the extent to which their practice is consistent with child rights standards.
This article considers the case for child rights strategic litigation (CRSL) practice that is child rights-consistent. In doing so, it identifies CRSL-relevant rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and outlines how such rights arise in the litigation process. It ultimately posits that child rights can serve as a clear, multi-faceted framework that enables litigators to strengthen their existing practice in a legitimate, unified and coherent way.

Preliminary Material /Aoife Nolan , Rosa Freedman and Thérèse Murphy -- Introduction /Aoife Nolan , Rosa Freedman and Thérèse Murphy -- The History of the Special Procedures: A 'Learning-by-Doing' Approach to Human Rights Implementation /Elvira Domínguez-Redondo -- Special Procedures: Independence and Impartiality /Jane Connors -- Picking and Choosing? Country Visits by Thematic Special Procedures /Felice D. Gaer -- The UN Special Procedures System: The Role of the Coordination Committee of Special Procedures /Najat Maalla M'jid -- Strengthening Cooperation: The Key to Unlocking the Potential of the Special Procedures /Marc Limon -- Coping Mechanisms for State Non-cooperation /Ahmed Shaheed and Rose Parris Richter -- Doing It All and Doing It Well? A Mandate's Challenges in Terms of Cooperation, Fundraising and Maintaining Independence /Inga T. Winkler and Catarina de Albuquerque -- Working Out a Working Group: A View from a Former Working Group Member /Olivier de Frouville -- Special Procedures in the Digital Age /Ella McPherson and Thomas Probert -- Principle, Politics and Practice: The Role of UN Special Rapporteurs on the Right to Adequate Housing in the Development of the Right to Housing in International Law /Jessie Hohmann -- Life as a UN Special Rapporteur: The Experience of the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Cambodia /Surya P. Subedi -- Business and Human Rights in the United Nations Special Procedures System /Daria Davitti -- The Challenge of Non-state Actors: The Experience of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health (2002–08) /Paul Hunt -- The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture in the Developing Architecture of UN Torture Protection /Malcolm Evans -- The African State and Special Procedures: Agency, Leverage and Legitimacy /Jonathan Fisher and Danielle Beswick -- Supporting or Resisting? The Relationship between Global North States and Special Procedures /Rosa Freedman and François Crépeau -- Ending Reprisals: The Role and Responsibilities of the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council /Phil Lynch -- Index /Aoife Nolan , Rosa Freedman and Thérèse Murphy.

1.Foundations --Public finance, maximum available resources and human rights /Diane Elson, Radhika Balakrishnan and James Heintz --Putting ESR-based budget analysis into practice: addressing the conceptual challenges /Aoife Nolan --Let them eat cake: socio-economic rights in an age of austerity /Paul O'Connell --Resourcing rights: combating tax injustice from a human rights perspective /Ignacio Saiz --2.Governance --Recovering the history of human rights: public finances and human rights /Rory O'Connell --Better on the margins? A critique of mainstreaming economic and social rights /Eoin Rooney and Colin Harvey --3.Group-specific work --Budget for children /Enakshi Ganguly Thukral --Equality proofing the budget: lessons from the experiences of gender budgeting? /Sheila Quinn --4.Analysis in action --Right to adequate housing: a case study of the social housing budget in Northern Ireland /Eoin Rooney and Mira Dutschke --Assessing the impact of the public spending cuts: taking human rights and equality seriously /James Harrison and Mary-Ann Stephenson.

Human rights based budget analysis projects have emerged at a time when the United Nations has asserted the indivisibility of all human rights and attention is increasingly focused on the role of non-judicial bodies in promoting and protecting human rights. This book seeks to develop the human rights framework for such budget analyses, by exploring the international law obligations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) in relation to budgetary processes. The book outlines international experiences and comparative practice in relation to economic and soc