PADM 5855.

Internation al Human Rights

9. Rights of the Child

Questions covered

·       How are children's rights enforced through CRC?

·       Who is a child?

·       What is the role of UNICEF in dealing with children's rights?

Lectures

·       Lecture

Required readings

·       McFarland, Chapters 5, 10, Convention on the Rights of the Child

·       Committee on the Rights of the Child, Report 85th-89th session (A/77/41) – In course Canvas

·       Rights of the Child, Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2019 (A/74/133)

Recommended readings

·       How do they decide the age when you become an adult? Today I Found Out.com, August 10, 2016

Discussion question

·       What are the implications of Article 1: For the purposes of the present Convention, a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier

·       What would be the implication for "dreamers" in the United States if it was party to the Convention in terms of Article 2:

1. States Parties shall respect and ensure the rights set forth in the present Convention to each child within their jurisdiction without discrimination of any kind, irrespective of the child's or his or her parent's or legal guardian's race, colour, sex, language,

religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, property, disability, birth or other status.

2. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that the child is protected against all forms of discrimination or punishment on the basis of the status, activities, expressed opinions, or beliefs of the child's parents, legal guardians, or family members.

Simulation

·       We will review the report of Senegal, one group being the government, one the committee, one an NGO and one the Secretariat. Documents are in the Canvas.

Recording

·       Recordings of 18 and 20 March will be in the course Canvas