The Protection of Children's Human Rights in Europe

ISBN-13: 9783836409933 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 64 str.

Gabriel Vockel

Opis

This book examines three core foci of interest of both practitioners as well asacademics in the area of the protection of human rights of children. The firsttwo are the international legal documents of the UN Convention on theRights of the Child (CRC) and the European Convention on Human Rights andFundamental Freedoms (ECHR). The third focal point consists of an investigationinto a specific area of jurisprudence of the European Court of HumanRights regarding the protection of human rights of children: the phenomenonof the corporal punishment and abuse of children in the UK. The analysisconcludes that both the CRC and the ECHR are characterised by variousflaws and drawbacks in relation to the protection of childrens human rights.The narrow textual scope of the ECHR and the significant weaknesses of theCRC regarding its implementation mechanism are two prominent examples.The paper suggests that in Europe, the trend of maximising the potential ofthe ECHR by combining the widely accepted, detailed standards on childrensrights set out in the UN Convention with the highly successful system of individualpetition and implementation should be strengthened further.