Children's Rights Law in the Global Human Rights Landscape: Isolation, inspiration, integration? (Routledge Research in Human Rights Law)

Synopsis

Children’s rights law is often studied and perceived in isolation from the broader field of human rights law. This volume explores the inter-relationship between children’s rights law and more general human rights law in order to see whether elements from each could successfully inform the other. Children’s rights law has a number of distinctive characteristics, such as the emphasis on the ‘best interests of the child’, the use of general principles, and the inclusion of ‘third parties’ (e.g. parents and other care-takers) in treaty provisions. The first part of this book questions whether these features could be a source of inspiration for general human rights law. In part two, the reverse question is asked: could children’s rights law draw inspiration from developments in other branches of human rights law that focus on other specific categories of rights holders, such as women, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples, or older persons? Finally, the interaction between children’s rights law and human rights law – and the potential for their isolation, inspiration or integration – may be coloured or determined by the thematic issue under consideration. Therefore the third part of the book studies the interplay between children’s rights law and human rights law in the context of specific topics: intra-family relations, LGBTQI marginalization, migration, media, the environment and transnational human rights obligations.

Copyright:

2017

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ISBN-13:

9781317268048

Related ISBNs:

9781315637440, 9781138639010, 9781138639010, 9780367196585, 9780367196585

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

02/18/20

Copyrighted By:

Eva Brems, Ellen Desmet, Wouter Vandenhole

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No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government

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Edited by:

Eva Brems

Edited by:

Ellen Desmet

Edited by:

Wouter Vandenhole