Child Rights and Drug Control in International Law (Stockholm Studies in Child Law and Children?s Rights, 6) [Hardcover] Barrett, Damon

Responding to the harms caused by drugs is one of the most challenging social policy issues of our time. In Child Rights and Drug Control on International Law, Damon Barrett explores the meaning of the child’s right to protection from drugs under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the relationship between this right and the UN drug control conventions. Adopting a critical approach, the book traces the intersecting histories of the treaties, the role of child rights in global drug policy discourse, and the practice of the Committee on the Rights of the Child. It invites us to reflect upon the potential for child rights to provide justification for state actions associated with wider human rights risks.

Damon Barrett is a lecturer at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Gothenburg. He is a co-founder of the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy, based at the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex.