Published: 31 March, 2014
This new title is a companion volume to Alistair MacDonald's The Rights of the Child: Law and Practice (Family Law, 2011) and contains fully annotated versions of the primary and secondary source material which is cited and discussed in the prior volume.
An invaluable reference work for all child law practitioners including barristers, solicitors, social workers, CAFCASS officers, probation officers and the Youth Offending Service, local authorities, law students and academics.
Introduction
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Optional Protocol I
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Optional Protocol II
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
UN Convention against Torture
UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
UN Convention against Discrimination in Education
ILO Minimum Age Convention
ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention
Geneva Convention III
Geneva Convention IV
The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
The European Convention on Human Rights
Human Rights Act 1998
Revised European Social Charter
Charter of the Fundamental Rights of the European Union
UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice
UN Standard Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty
Standard Rules on the Equalisation of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities
UN Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency
UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children
UNCRC General Comment 1 – The Aims of Education;
UNCRC General Comment 2 – The Role of Independent Human Rights Institutions;
UNCRC General Comment 3 – HIV/AIDS and the Rights of the Child;
UNCRC General Comment 4 – Adolescent Health;
UNCRC General Comment 5 – General Measures of Implementation for the CRC;
UNCRC General Comment 6 – Treatment of Unaccompanied and Separated Children outside their Country of Origin;
UNCRC General Comment 7 – Implementing Child Rights in Early Childhood;
UNCRC General Comment 8 – The Right of the Child to Protection from Corporal Punishment and other Cruel or Degrading forms of Punishment;
UNCRC General Comment 9 – The Rights of Children with Disabilities;
UNCRC General Comment 10 – Children’s Rights in Juvenile Justice;
UNCRC General Comment 11 – Indigenous Children and the Rights under the Convention;
UNCRC General Comment 12 – The Right of the Child to be Heard;
UNCRC General Comment 13 – The Right of the Children to Freedom from all forms of Violence.