Monitoring Children's RightsEugeen Verhellen Intense political, social and scientific efforts to improve the position of children are converging rapidly, centered on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It is therefore reasonable to assume that there is broad consensus in the international community on how to take the position of children in society seriously. Despite the unique success of the Convention, the situation is such that it forces us, as a matter of urgency, to explore, develop and implement guarantees for effective monitoring of the implementation of the Convention's provisions. In the end, rights are only effective when implemented. This book, containing the contributions made and discussed at the European Conference on Monitoring Children's Rights (organized by Ghent University's Children's Rights Centre), wishes to discuss, in a wider scientific forum, the results of interdisciplinary research into monitoring. Several monitoring issues are tackled, with particular emphasis on the reporting system: what should be reported (the content of the reports) and who should report (the more formal and procedural aspects of reporting)? Apart from the suitable international monitoring mechanism, which also has national monitoring consequences, there is also the self-executing force of the Convention, making it directly enforceable in national courts. Ongoing and dynamic monitoring can be a powerful impetus for systematic progress. The debate on monitoring the Children's Rights Convention may in this way expand into an attractive and exemplary debate on human rights conventions in general. This book will therefore not only meet the requirements of all those working in the field of children's rights, but also provides appealing material for those involved in the field of monitoring human rights. |
Contents
ForewordSamir Sanad Basta | 3 |
Regional and National Implementation of the Convention | 5 |
Residential Care | 10 |
Monitoring Childrens Rights Eugeen Verhellen | 21 |
Different | 49 |
Back to Basic Questions Nigel Cantwell | 67 |
Planning for Effective Action James R Himes | 113 |
A View from Within Marta Santos Pais | 129 |
Can we Make Reality of Childrens Rights? NGO Monitoring | 509 |
Monitoring the Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights | 525 |
the Role of Ombudswork | 541 |
Mécanisme | 555 |
Tasks of the Childrens Ombudsman | 575 |
Childrens Legal Rights and Legal Assistance | 593 |
Role of National Courts in Protecting Childrens Rights R N Trivedi | 621 |
The European Federation of City Farms and Working with Children | 637 |
Recourse Procedures Against the Violation of Childrens Rights | 145 |
The European Charter | 159 |
The Selfexecuting Character of the Childrens Rights Convention | 187 |
Conclusion | 200 |
The Opinion of Children about their Rights | 225 |
Childrens Attitudes Toward Their Rights An International | 241 |
Childrens Participation | 263 |
Childrens Participation in Residential Care Lennie Haarsma | 281 |
Appropriate Direction and Guidance in the Exercise by a Child of | 287 |
Childrens Parliament in Slovenia Zoran Pavlović | 327 |
Beyond the Effect of Sweetness with Illustrations | 347 |
Childhood Policies and Monitoring Childrens Rights | 367 |
International Monitoring Procedures | 393 |
The Prohibition of Child Labour as a Social Clause in Multilateral | 431 |
Impressions en Marge dune Session du Comité des Droits de lEnfant | 445 |
Process of Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of | 453 |
Monitoring the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child | 475 |
Childrens Rights in Slovenia Marja Strojin | 491 |
Too Vague to Be True? Marian Koren | 667 |
Education for the 21st Century | 681 |
Le Processus dEnseignement aux Droits de lHomme après 1989 | 703 |
Implementation of Young Peoples Rights in Flemish Provisions | 713 |
Rights of the Child and Their Protection in Polish Resocialization | 727 |
Enfants Déplacés et Placés Auprès de Tierces Personnes Vidomègon | 761 |
Consent and Medical Interventions | 775 |
Social and Educational Assistance for Children and their Mild Mental | 797 |
Ethical Aberration in Using Children for Endorsing Consumer | 817 |
Street Children | 835 |
Defence and Realization of Childrens | 841 |
Droits des Jeunes Vivant et Travaillant dans les Interstices du Milieu | 867 |
Children in Armed Conflict | 883 |
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child | 901 |
Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly | 919 |
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