Abstract
The Third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child has entered into force in April 2014. Petitions concerning violations of the rights of the child were hitherto justiciable before the Human Rights Committee and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, both of which have produced useful jurisprudence. While these Committees will continue to have jurisdiction over such cases, it is to be expected that henceforth petitioners will turn to the Committee on the Rights of the Child as the most specialised body in the field.
Alfred de Zayas is an UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order
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See Möller and De Zayas (2009), Nowak (2005). A useful link to the jurisprudence is http://sim.law.uu.nl/sim/caselaw/tribunalen.nsf.
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Statement to the General Assembly on the special workshop of 13 May 2013. http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Trafficking/SRontraffickingHL13May2013.pdf
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See CEDAW General Recommendation 14 (1990). http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/recommendations/recomm.htm#recom14.
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Article 24: 1. Every child shall have, without any discrimination as to race, colour, sex, language, religion, national or social origin, property or birth, the right to such measures of protection as are required by his status as a minor, on the part of his family, society and the State. 2. Every child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have a name. 3. Every child has the right to acquire a nationality.’
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HRC 1992 Report, Annex X, Sect. R., para. 5.2.
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HRC 2002 Report, Vol. II, Annex IX, Sect. HH, para. 7.2–7.4.
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Communication No.201/1985, Hendriks v. The Netherlands, Views adopted on 27 July 1988, paragraph 10.4.
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Communication No.514/1992, Fei v. Colombia, Views adopted on 4 April 1995, paragraph 8.10.
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http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/undocs/930-2000.html, paras. 7.2–7.3.
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http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/undocs/1069-2002.html, paras. 9.5–9.7.
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Views adopted 25 July 2013.
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http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/undocs/1184-2003.html, para. 9.3–9.4.
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de Zayas, A. (2015). The CRC in Litigation Under the ICCPR and CEDAW. In: Liefaard, T., Doek, J. (eds) Litigating the Rights of the Child. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9445-9_11
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