CYC 602 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sleep Deprivation, United Nations Special Rapporteur, United Nations Convention Against Torture
21 Nov 2016
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Un convention on the rights of the child, justice system, and. After ww2, 1989, distinguish children as people instead of property. General assembly (main body; economic and social rights council, human rights council, treaty monitoring bodies), security council (international peace and security), un. Secretariat (run by secretary general, administrates), international court of justice. Treaty monitoring bodies such as committee on the rights of the child, internationally part of enforcement of the convention on the rights of the child. Un special rapporteurs work to examine, monitor, advise and report on human rights problems, investigate allegations of human rights violations. Introduction to convention on rights of the child. Rationale: create legally binding obligations on states by putting provisions in treaty form, create comprehensive law on all facets of childhood, provide recognition of the child as an individual with participatory rights. Types of rights protected are provision (meeting needs), protection (safety and human rights) and participatory (providing and allowing for voice)
