scholarly journals Are unborn children rights-holders under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child?

2010 ◽  
pp. 17-21
Author(s):  
Fiona Broughton
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Minimum Age ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
Age Limit ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Children Rights

In September 1992, Ireland ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), committing itself to the promotion, protection and fulfilment of the rights of all children on a non-discriminatory basis as outlined in the Convention. But just who is a child under the wording of the CRC? Article 1 of the CRC defines the child as “every human being below the age of eighteen years, unless under the law applicable to that child majority is attained earlier”. So the CRC is clear on a maximum age limit for one to qualify as a ‘child’ and thus gain rights under the CRC. It makes no mention, however, of a minimum age limit for a human being to qualify as a ‘child’ under the Convention. Does a child gain rights under the Convention from the moment of his existence, i.e., immediately following conception, or from the moment of ...

Art.45 Entry Into Force

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bantekas Ilias
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Vienna Convention ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Multilateral Treaties

This chapter examines Article 45 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which deals with the entry into force of the Convention. The practice of the UN in respect of multilateral treaties suggests an antipathy towards their entry into force without a substantial quorum of ratifications. Article 45(1) CRPD does not depart from the UN model whereby a treaty enters into force in relation to existing (ratifying) parties and not independently of them. In accordance with customary law as reflected in Article 24(4) of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Article 45 CRPD applies not from the moment the treaty enters into force, but rather from the ‘moment of the adoption of the text’. The adoption of the text of a treaty does not necessarily coincide with the signing of the treaty. The text of the CRPD was adopted on 13 December 2006 but was opened for signature on 30 March 2007.

scholarly journals The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Importance in the Law of the Republic of Srpska in General, and Particularly in Juvenile Criminal Law of the Republic of Srpska / Konvencija Ujedinjenih nacija o pravima djeteta i njen značaj u pravu Republike Srpske uopšte, a posebno u maloljetničkom krivičnom pravu Republike Srpske

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Ljubinko Mitrović
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
Official Gazette ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Republic

Juvenile criminal law of the Republic of Srpska is a set of legal (and secondary) regulations governing the criminal justice status of juveniles as perpetrators of criminal acts and juveniles as victims, i.e. victims of crime. Certainly, it is a special part of the criminal law of the Republic of Srpska that, due to a number of specific solutions, has assumed the character of an independent legislative and scientific discipline in the Republic of Srpska, as in many modern European countries.The main source of juvenile criminal law in the Republic of Srpska that has primacy in the application against juvenile offenders is the Law on the protection and treatment of children and juveniles in criminal proceedings (passed by the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska in February 2010, published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Srpska, number 13/2010; this law was amended at the end of 2013 - amendments to this law have been published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Srpska, number 61/2013).Certain legal standards set forth in a lot of international legal acts have a special role in the statutory formulation of this branch of the criminal law in all modern countries. The situation is similar in the Republic of Srpska where the international legal standards previously implemented by Bosnia and Herzegovina (and therefore also by the Republic of Srpska as a part of it) were the framework for the creation of the aforementioned legal texts and all bylaws regulating this very important field. In this paper, we will discuss one of the most important international legal documents - the United Nations Convention on the rights of the child.

The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf and its Disturbing Propensity to Legislate

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Serdy
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Continental Shelves ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Law

AbstractCreated by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to apply the rules in Article 76 on the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from States’ territorial sea baselines, the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf has on several occasions introduced new requirements for States not supported by Article 76, or impermissibly qualifying the rights Article 76 accords them. This article focuses on several such instances, one to the coastal State’s advantage (though temporally rather than spatially), another neutral (though requiring unnecessary work of States), but the remainder all tending to reduce the area of continental shelves. The net effect has been to deprive States of areas of legal continental shelf to which a reasonable interpretation of Article 76 entitles them, and in one case even of their right to have their submissions examined on their merits, even though, paradoxically, the well-meaning intention behind at least some of the Commission’s pronouncements was to avoid other controversies.

scholarly journals Gendered Justice: Inequalities in the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility in Iran

Youth Justice ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 147322542110228
Author(s):  
Jo Staines ◽  
Nadia Aghtaie ◽  
Jessica Roy
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Islamic Countries ◽  
Minimum Age ◽  
The United Nations

Using the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) in Iran as an illustration, this article explores the continued resistance against girls’ rights in some Islamic countries. The gendered construction of childhood in Iran has resulted in a differential MACR, which for boys is notably higher than that recommended by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, yet for girls is unacceptably low. While breaches of girls’ rights in other areas are defended on the grounds of paternalistic concerns, it is argued that the MACR is a religious-politico decision that, in Iran, upholds the rights of boys but denies the rights of girls, propagating their wider subjugation.

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