The International Law on the Right of the Child to Survival and Development

Description

This comprehensive and in-depth study on the understanding and interpretation of the childs right to survival and development provides a compact assessment of article 62 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. brbrThe author analyses the travaux prparatoires of the CRC and the academic work of some of its drafters. The book includes an interview with one of the drafters and explores the literature of the Committee on the Rights of the Child with respect to article 62 and how its understanding and interpretations of this article have developed over time. It examines the weaknesses and strengths in relation to the observations it has made and explores the legal effects of the Committees classifications and makes suggestions for others as well. brbrImportantly, the book also discusses the relationship between the right of the child to survival and development and hisher dignity. It provides an understanding of the childs physical, mental, spiritual, moral and cognitive development in the context of hisher right to survival and development. In addition, the author discusses various State obligations aiming at the enjoyment of the right to survival and development and also touches on global warming and its relationship with the right of the child to survival and development. brbrThe reader will gain an understanding of different approaches to the interpretation of human rights treaties in general, and attitudes towards the assessment of the work of the Committee on the Rights of the Child. He will also learn about the connection between the right to development and the economic and social rights of the child on the one hand, and the right of the child to survival and development on the other hand. Moreover, the book introduces the concept of comprehensiveness and individuality of the right of the child to survival and development and fundamentally argues that there is still more to add to the understanding and interpretations of article 62 of the CRC.br