Implementation handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child / by Rachel Hodgkin and Peter Newell.

“Prepared for the Unicef by Rachel Hodgkin and Peter Newell”—title page.
“For every child, health, education, equality, protection advance humanity”—cover page.
Abstract: "Under each article of the Convention, this fully revised edition of 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 UN bodies and global conferences, as well as illustrative examples. For each article there is an 'Implementation Checklist'."--Publisher's description.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Definition of the child -- Non-discrimination -- Best interests of the child -- Implementation of rights in the Convention -- Parental guidance and the child's evolving capacities -- Children's right to life and maximum survival and development -- Birth registration, name, nationality and right to know and be cared for by parents -- Preservation of identity -- Separation from parents -- Entering or leaving countries for family reunification -- Ilicit transfer and non-return of children abroad -- Respect for the views of the child -- Child's right to freedom of expression -- Child's right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion -- Child's right to freedom of association and peaceful assembly -- Child's right to privacy -- Child's access to appropriate information -- Parents' joint responsibilities, assisted by the State -- Child's right to protection from all forms of violence -- Children deprived of their family environment -- Adoption -- Refugee children -- Rights of children with disabilities -- Child's right to health and health services -- Child's right to periodic review of treatment -- Child's right to benefit from social security -- Child's right to an adequate standard of living -- Child's right to education -- The aims of education -- Children of minorities or of indigenous people -- Child's right to leisure, play and culture -- Child labour -- Children and drug abuse -- Sexual exploitation of children -- Prevention of abduction, sale and trafficking -- Protection from other forms of exploitation -- Torture, degrading treatment and deprivation of liberty -- Protection of children affected by armed conflict -- Rehabilitation of child victims -- Administration of juvenile justice -- Respect for existing human rights standards -- Making the Convention widely known -- The Committee on the Rights of the Child -- Reporting obligations of States Parties -- Cooperation with United Nations agencies and other bodies -- Miscellaneous provisions concerning the Convention -- Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict -- Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.

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