Constitutional protection of children's rights: Visibility, agency and enforceability

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dc.contributor.authorO'Mahony, Conor
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-19T09:44:42Z
dc.date.available2020-02-19T09:44:42Z
dc.date.issued2019-10-11
dc.date.updated2020-02-19T09:26:52Z
dc.description.abstractWhile almost every state in the world has ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), there is less consensus around the manner in which the rights protected by the CRC should be protected in national constitutions. To say that a constitution makes provision for children's rights is just a starting point: the extent to which a national constitution takes a genuine child rights approach will depend on the quality of the constitutional provisions in question. This paper aims to provide a typology which can be used to assess whether the approach taken by any given constitution to the protection of children's rights is in line with the child rights approach envisaged by CRC by analysing individual constitutions along three separate spectrums. The Visibility spectrum measures how visible children are in a constitutional scheme; the Agency spectrum measures the extent to which children are considered to be independent, autonomous rights holders, while the Enforceability spectrum measures the extent to which children's constitutional rights can be enforced.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationO'Mahony, C. (2019) 'Constitutional protection of children's rights: Visibility, agency and enforceability', Human Rights Law Review, 19(3), pp. 401-434. doi: 10.1093/hrlr/ngz017en
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/hrlr/ngz017en
dc.identifier.eissn1744-1021
dc.identifier.endpage434en
dc.identifier.issn1461-7781
dc.identifier.issued3en
dc.identifier.journaltitleHuman Rights Law Reviewen
dc.identifier.startpage401en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/9666
dc.identifier.volume19en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen
dc.rights© 2019, the Author. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.en
dc.subjectConstitutional lawen
dc.subjectConvention on the Rights of the Child Remediesen
dc.subjectChildren's rightsen
dc.titleConstitutional protection of children's rights: Visibility, agency and enforceabilityen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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