This comprehensive and in-depth study on the understanding and interpretation of a child's right to survival and development provides a compact assessment of Article 6(2) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in light of its drafting history, the reports of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and other relevant sources appropriate to the discipline of international human rights law. The book analyzes the travaux preparatoires of the CRC and the academic work of some of its drafters. It includes an interview with one of the drafters and explores the literature of the...