Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child - Softcover

Rachel Hodgkin; Peter Newell; UNICEF

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0119879646 ISBN 13: 9780119879643

Publisher: United Nations, 2002

Synopsis

Since its adoption in 1989, the Convention on the Rights of the Child has achieved almost universal ratification. This handbook aims to be a practical tool for all those involved in implementing the principles and provisions of the Convention and realizing the human rights of children. Key features include: under each article of the Convention, the handbook records and analyses the interpretation by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the internationally elected body of independent experts established to monitor progress worldwide; the handbook adds analysis of relevant provisions in other international instruments, comments from other United Nations bodies and global conferences, as well as illustrative examples of implementation from countries around the world; and throughout, the handbook emphasizes the Convention's holistic approach to children's rights: that they are indivisible and interrelated, and that equal importance should be attached to each and every right recognized therein.

About this edition

• Publisher: United Nations
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0119879646
• ISBN 13: 9780119879643
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 762