Monitoring Children's Rights

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Eugeen Verhellen
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Sep 26, 1996 - Law - 940 pages
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.

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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
SUBJECT INDEX
935
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