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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

Prof. Dr Ton Liefaard holds the UNICEF Chair in Children’s Rights at Leiden Law School, Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is the programme director of the Master’s Programme (LLM) Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights.Prof. Dr Julia Sloth-Nielsen holds the chair of Children's Rights in the Developing World at Leiden Law School, Leiden University, the Netherlands, and is a professor at the Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.This book has been developed in cooperation with the E.M Meijers Research Institute and Graduate School at Leiden Law School.

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Deprivation of Liberty of Children in Light of International Human Rights Law and Standards

It is estimated that at least one million children are deprived of their liberty worldwide. Held at police stations, detained in prisons and detention centres, or placed in reform schools and other (closed) institutions, these children are often confronted with (gross) violations of their human rights. They are deprived of their liberty for obscure reasons; detained in inadequate and overcrowded facilities together with adults; denied family contact; and subjected to violence, abuse and neglect by staff or other inmates. Children deprived of their liberty are at risk of having their childhoods and future life opportunities wasted away. This book provides a systematic and comprehensive study of the implications of International Human Rights Law and Standards for children deprived of their liberty. It addresses the legal requirements regarding arrest, detention and imprisonment of children set by international and regional human rights treaties, in particular the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and pays close attention to the role of children's legal status. In light of this, the book subsequently assesses legislation from the Netherlands specifically drawn up to strengthen the legal status of children in Dutch youth institutions: the Youth Custodial Institutions Act (Beginselenwet justitiële jeugdinrichtingen). This study offers specific guidance on the interpretation and implementation of relevant provisions of International Human Rights Law and Standards, particularly for academics; (inter)national governmental and non-governmental organizations; (inter)national courts, legislators and competent authorities; institutions; lawyers; and others working with or for children deprived of their liberty. Its detailed recommendations clarify important steps towards the realization of the rights of children deprived of their liberty around the world. About this book "Liefaard's magisterial work manages to be both a comprehensive, academic study of the mandates of international human rights law for children deprived of their liberty and - simultaneously - a savage indictment of most of the world's failure to hear the cries of children behind bars or recognize the consequences of our denial of their full humanity." > "During the past decades a lot of efforts have been undertaken to limit deprivation of liberty and to protect persons deprived of liberty against abuse and exploitation inter alia through specific provisions in International Human Rights Law and the establishment of international standards. This book provides a so far unique compilation and comprehensive analysis of these provisions and standards as far as relevant for children. It results in an elaborated list of recommended actions not only for preventing and avoiding deprivation of liberty but also for the protection of children subject to it. (...) The book is an important tool for understanding the various aspects of deprivation of liberty of children and a guidance for legislators, policy makers and practitioners in their efforts to ensure that children are deprived of their liberty only when necessary and as short as possible, and are well protected in full compliance with the CRC. May it be used by many." > 'Liefaard has made an important contribution to children's rights. All too often, children's rights are studied rather superficially (if at all), and disconnected from the general human rights framework. Liefaard has avoided both pitfalls: he has produced a fairly comprehensive and in-depth study of the topic, and has managed to integrate and contextualise specific children's rights provisions into the overall human rights law framework. Moreover, he offers a sophisticated integrated picture of all relevant international norms, regardless of their hard or soft nature.' >

Litigating the Rights of the Child

In addition, it offers analyses of the jurisprudence of regional courts, in Europe and the Americas, and of human rights treaty bodies, including the Human Rights Committee, Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.

International Human Rights of Children

This book explores the meaning and implementation of international children's rights law, as laid down in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and related international and regional human rights instruments. It considers the application of international children's rights at the national level and addresses key procedural and institutional matters concerning children's rights implementation, including monitoring, complaints mechanisms, effective remedies, advocacy and international agenda-setting. The book breaks new ground by analysing a wide range of international children's rights issues from a legal perspective. It incorporates a comparative perspective on children's rights law at the international, regional and domestic level and contains information on evidence-based strategies towards the implementation and enforcement of international children's rights law.The book is targeted at academics, legal and other professionals, and advanced students. It analyses children's rights law in the following areas: implementation and enforcement; advocacy and standard setting; complaints and remedies; the child and the family; adoption; alternative care; protection from violence; civil rights of the child; economic, social and cultural rights; education; health; migration and refugees; children and the justice system; children with disabilities; deprivation of liberty; children's rights and digital technologies; war and disaster; sustainable development goals and further contemporary issues.

1. Mariëlle Bruning
2. Ton Liefaard
3. Paul Vlaardingerbroek

Jeugdrecht en jeugdhulp

Er gaat geen week voorbij of er doet zich iets voor op het terrein van het jeugdrecht en het jeugdhulprecht. Met name kinderbeschermingszaken en kinderontvoeringen trekken veel aandacht, maar ook afstammingsrecht (duomoeders), gezagsrecht, privacy, adolescentenstrafrecht, herziening kinderbeschermingsmaatregelen en de nieuwe Jeugdwet, die de Wet op de jeugdzorg vervangt, komen voorbij. Het boek Jeugdrecht en jeugdhulp biedt een overzichtelijke en stelselmatige inleiding in het jeugdrecht. In het boek vindt u een systematische beschrijving van de diverse onderdelen van het jeugdrecht en het recht inzake de jeugdzorg en de jeugdhulp. Deze zevende druk is uitgebreid herzien en geactualiseerd. Het boek is geschreven voor studenten in het hoger en universitair onderwijs, alsmede voor al diegenen die zich in de dagelijkse praktijk bezighouden met jeugdrecht, jeugdzorg/jeugdhulp en jeugdbescherming en voor andere in het jeugdrecht geïnteresseerden. Prof. mr. drs. Mariëlle Bruning is hoogleraar Jeugdrecht aan de Universiteit Leiden en rechter-plv. bij de rechtbank Amsterdam. Prof. mr. Ton Liefaard is sinds 2012 Unicef-hoogleraar Children's Rights aan de Universiteit Leiden. Daarnaast is hij werkzaam als rechter-plv. bij de rechtbank Amsterdam. Prof. mr. Paul Vlaardingerbroek is als hoogleraar Familie- en jeugdrecht verbonden aan de Law School van de Tilburg University. Hij is tevens rechter-plv. bij de rechtbank Rotterdam, raadsheer-plv. bij het Gerechtshof 's-Hertogenbosch en plv.-voorzitter van het Regionaal Tuchtcollege Eindhoven.

1. Mirjam Sombroek
2. Ton Liefaard
3. Melita van der Mersch

De jeugd, de zorg en het recht

In de themadelen van dit preadvies staan wij stil bij minderjarigen die met de jeugdzorg in aanraking komen. Zoals uit deze themadelen valt op te maken zijn zij al geruime tijd ‘het kind van de rekening’. Het is tragisch te moeten constateren dat onze samenleving er op dit moment niet in slaagt de jeugdzorg goed te organiseren. Wat gaat er toch mis en hoe kan het beter? In dit multidisciplinaire preadvies houdt een aantal experts de jeugdzorg tegen het licht. Zowel theorie als praktijk komen aan bod. Startpunt voor dit preadvies vormen de kinder rechten, die een gezaghebbend kader bieden voor de bescherming van kinderen en jongeren.