Litigating the Rights of the Child The UN Convention on the Rights o
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 do
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igating the Rights of the Child The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Domestic and International Jurisprudence
Litigating the Rights of the Child
Ton Liefaard · Jaap E. Doek Editors
Litigating the Rights of the Child The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Domestic and International Jurisprudence
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Editors Ton Liefaard Department of Child Law Leiden Law School Leiden University Leiden The Netherlands
Jaap E. Doek Faculty of Law VU University Amsterdam The Netherlands
ISBN 978-94-017-9444-2 ISBN 978-94-017-9445-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9445-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2014947662 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
Relatively little has been written about children’s rights litigation or the obligations of States parties under the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), notwithstanding that it is a binding agreement on 194 countries around the world. In this vein, I sometimes have the impression, when speaking to governments either in Geneva or in follow-up missions abroad, that the view is that because the CRC deals with children’s rights, it can be applied à la carte and that the proposed menu itself
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