scholarly journals From the Indicators of General Comment No. 7 to GlobalChild

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 821-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ziba Vaghri ◽  
Lothar Krappmann ◽  
Jaap Doek
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
United Nations ◽  
State Party ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Improve State ◽  
Monitoring Platform ◽  
Indicator Sets

Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (crc) hinges on appropriate data collection to clarify actors’ accountability and the impact of this on children. In spite of widespread ratification and revised legislation, most State Parties have not adequately implemented the crc. The evidence demonstrates that indicators can assist with implementing and monitoring human rights. We present an account of a decade of work conducted under the auspices of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, towards developing indicator sets which map the degree of rights implementation. The work started with the rights of young children, outlined in the Committee’s General Comment No. 7. It will culminate in a comprehensive monitoring platform, called GlobalChild, to improve State Parties’ accountability to children through pointing at crucial aspects of the process of compliance with the crc for which the State Party and its administration are accountable.

scholarly journals Can Mr Zaoui Freely Cross the Foreshore and Seabed? The Effectiveness of UN Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms in New Zealand

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasper Krommendijk
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Human Rights Treaties ◽  
International Monitoring ◽  
Monitoring Mechanism ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The Impact

This article analyses the impact and effectiveness of the most important international monitoring mechanism for New Zealand's international human rights obligations, which is the process of State reporting under United Nations human rights treaties by committees of experts. This article concludes that the organisation of this process in New Zealand has improved since the mid-2000s and that domestic actors, such as the New Zealand Human Rights Commission and non-governmental organisations, have become more involved. There is, however, no structural follow-up to the recommendations of the supervisory United Nations committees, and as a result they often remain largely ineffective. This article will explain why the reporting process under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is considerably more effective. 

scholarly journals Protection of Children’s Human Rights and Health: A Legacy of Julian Kramsztyk, Janusz Korczak, and Ludwik Rajchman

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 2333794X1775415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Woltanowski ◽  
Andrzej Wincewicz ◽  
Stanisław Sulkowski
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Strong Association ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Medical Doctors ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
Emergency Fund ◽  
Pediatric Disorders ◽  
Scientific Achievements

Tutor of generations of Warsaw medical doctors, Julian Kramsztyk (1851-1926) was son of Rabbi Izaak Kramsztyk, Polish patriot and fighter for independent Poland. Julian Kramsztyk graduated in medicine from Warsaw University in 1873 to soon work as a supervisor of the Internal Diseases Department of Bersohns and Baumans Children’s Hospital from 1878 to 1910, and despite of refusing professorship from Imperial Warsaw University, he worked as a lecturer of pediatric disorders from 1880 with strong association of his medical practice with scientific and editorial tasks as well as engaging in charity. This article focuses on selective retrieval of biographical data of social and scientific achievements of followers of Julian Kramsztyk: his student, pioneer of children human rights, and pioneer of healthy patterns of nutrition of children, pediatrician Janusz Korczak (Henryk Goldszmit; 1878 or 1879-1942); and a skilled bacteriologist and a brilliant epidemiologist who was a prominent activist of the League of Nations (later United Nations Organization), cofounder of the UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund), and the first chairman of the Organization from 1946 to 1950, which was primarily dedicated to “provide emergency food and health care to children in postwar time,” Ludwik Rajchman (1881-1965). Janusz Korczak works laid foundation for international recognition of children rights to health, respect, education, privacy, and all the other human rights to be included in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). In 1989, nutrition and vaccination issues were the main medical interests of these medical doctors and still remain major fields of UNICEF actions.

Measuring Children's Rights: An Alternative Approach

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 545-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edzia Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Measurement Matrix ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
United Nations Convention

AbstractThe rights of the child, as recognised by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child have been increasingly reiterated in international declarations and national commitments. However, there exists a disparity in ‘the de jure protection and de facto realization of human rights’ (Landman 2005: 5). The relative absence of systematic engagement within academia and without on the issue of mapping the operationalisation of children's rights by States not only hinders ongoing attempts to identify and explain the causes and variation in the failure to implement children's rights but also weakens national and international efforts to hold States accountable for their obligations. This article seeks to address the lack of utilisation of measures of children's rights and the deficiencies in the measures that are in use. By drawing on the existing academic literature and intergovernmental efforts to measure human rights, the article proposes a measurement matrix that could be used to chart the implementation of States' obligations towards children's rights. The matrix is an attempt to further the emerging international endeavours to develop children's rights indicators.

scholarly journals THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN’S RIGHTS AT CONSTITUTIONAL LEVEL

2016 ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Марина Шелютто ◽  
Marina SHyelyutto
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Venice Commission

The adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989 meant the international recognition of children as autonomous right-holders. The Convention includes practically all traditional human rights: civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, to which every child is entitled. The Report on the Protection of Children’s Rights: International Standards and Domestic Constitutions adopted by the Venice Commission in 2014 shows that national constitutions of some Council of Europe Member States have implemented the provisions of the Convention in different manner after its adoption. Some constitutions (the Russian Constitution is among them, too) reflect the traditional paternalistic approach (according to which children need protection) but not the rights-based approach. The inclusion in the Constitution of guarantees of rights for everyone may be insufficient to ensure respect for these rights for every child. The recommendations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Venice Commission to include in national constitutions the key message that children are holders of human rights and the general principals of the Convention are topical for the Russian Federation.

The Impact of the UNCRC on the Italian Legal System

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joëlle Long
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Direct Effect ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Instrument ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Italian Law ◽  
The Future ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Domestic Law

AbstractAlthough the direct effect of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) on the legal system have been limited, the UNCRC is for Italy one of the most important multilateral conventions: the legislator approves almost any act on children's rights, stating that the new legal instrument is necessary in order fully to implement the UNCRC; the courts use the Convention to justify judicial interpretations which cannot be given on the sole ground of domestic law and sometimes even to substantiate interpretations against the letter of domestic law. The analysis of the conflicts between the UNCRC and Italian law identified both by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and by Italian scholars shows the ways of implementing this international instrument in Italy are not likely to change in the future: the effects on the sources of Italian law will therefore probably remain the only path through which the Convention actually contributes to the improvement of children's protection in Italy.

The child’s voice in adoption proceedings: A European perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 590-615
Author(s):  
Claire Fenton-Glynn
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
European Perspective ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
European Court ◽  
The World ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right

The right of the child to be heard in adoption proceedings flows directly from the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by almost every country in the world. In this paper, the interpretation of this principle across European jurisdictions will be analysed, both in terms of children who are old enough to make a determinative decision concerning their future, and those who are younger yet still possess the right to be heard. The wide variety of practices in Europe highlight the lack of progress in this field of law, which is not assisted by the conservative jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights.

scholarly journals Children's rights in Swedish teacher education

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-67
Author(s):  
Åsa Olsson
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Change ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
Domestic Law

In 2020, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) was incorporated into Swedish domestic law. In the proposals for new legislation, it is emphasised that steps be taken to develop knowledge of children’s rights among professionals at all levels. This article explores the presence and status of children’s rights in Swedish teacher education. A total of 362 teacher-education course plans and syllabi at 12 universities were examined, and a questionnaire was conducted among 156 teacher educators. Although teacher educators judge knowledge around children’s rights to be important for pre-service teachers, the syllabi provide little guidance as to what knowledge pre-service teachers need. Using the framework for analysing human rights education designed by educational specialist Felisa Tibbitts, it is concluded that Swedish teacher education fits with a Values and Awareness Model, which is associated with socialisation but not with social change.

Assessing the Effectiveness of Coroners’ Inquests in Relation to Child Maltreatment Fatalities: A Human Rights Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 510-547
Author(s):  
Joseph Martino
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Child Deaths ◽  
United Nations Convention

The potential of the coroner’s office in Ontario to reduce the incidents of child maltreatment-related fatalities is assessed through an examination of the four inquests completed between 2000 and 2015 involving the deaths of children connected with the child welfare system. Applying a human rights perspective rooted in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, it is argued that a concern for the fundamental legal entitlements of children has been little in evidence at the inquests of child fatalities, detracting from the ability of these proceedings to contribute to the prevention of maltreatment-related child deaths. Data derived from the juries’ verdicts at these inquests are compared with the rights and principles prescribed in the Convention with a view to assessing the extent to which the latter are implicated in the former. Findings of note include the absence of a simple instance in which the Convention or its provisions were explicitly referenced in the inquest verdicts, a startling fact given Canada’s obligations under international law to a treaty dedicated to the preservation of the life and wellbeing of children.

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