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Nutrition rights of the sort discussed in the preceding chapter illustrate, in one issue area, the broader context of human rights and children rights. Children’s rights have been addressed in many different international instruments.1 The Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child adopted by the League of Nations in 1924 was revised and became the basis of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child adopted unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly in 1959. The declaration enumerates ten principles regarding the rights of the child, but it does not provide any basis for implementation of those principles.2
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On the evolution of children’s rights see Philip E. Veerman, The Rights of the Child and the Changing Image of Childhood (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1992).
See Maria Enrica Agostinelli, On Wings of Love: The United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child (New York: Collins, 1979) for an interpretation and illustration of the principles designed for children.
Rebecca J. Cook, ‘Human Rights and Infant Survival: A Case for Priorities,’ Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 1986/87), pp. 1–41.
World Campaign for Human Rights, The Rights of the Child (Geneva: United Nations Centre for Human Rights, 1992);
Sharon Detrick, ed., The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Guide to the ‘Travaux Préparatoires’ (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1992);
Kay Castelle, In the Child’s Best Interest: A Primer on the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, New Edition (East Greenwich, Rhode Island: Foster Parents Plan International and Defence for Children International, 1989); Special issue on The Rights of the Child of the Bulletin of Human Rights, 91/2, published by the United Nations Centre for Human Rights in Geneva in 1992. Useful background information may be found in articles on the rights of the child in the American Psychologist of January 1991.
P. Prakash, ‘India: Advertising of Infant Foods to be Restricted,’ Lancet, Vol. 340 (1992), pp. 962–963.
Mâlfrid Grude FlekkØy, A Voice for Children: Speaking Out as Their Ombudsman (London: UNICEF/Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1991).
Bernard Rosen, Holding Government Bureaucracies Accountable, Second Edition (New York: Praeger, 1989);
Paul C. Light, Monitoring Government: Inspectors General and the Search for Accountability (Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1993).
Peter Adamson, ed., The Progress of Nations (New York: UNICEF, 1993), p. 4. This annual publication from UNICEF is itself designed for this purpose.
A proposal for systematic management of data for the full range of rights in the convention is described in Cynthia Price Cohen, Stuart N. Hart, and Susan M. Kosloske, ‘The U. N. Convention on the Rights of the Child: Developing an Information Model to Computerize the Monitoring of Treaty Compliance,’ Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 2 (1992), pp. 216–31.
See, for example, Herbert F. Spirer and Louise Spirer, Data Analysis for Monitoring Human Rights (Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1993).
Other dimensions on which nutrition service programs can be assessed are discussed in Joan Jennings, Stuart Gillespie, John Mason, Mahshid Lofti, and Tom Scialfa, eds., Managing Successful Nutrition Programs (Geneva: United Nations Administrative Committee on Coordination/Subcommittee on Nulrition, 1991).
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Kent, G. (1995). Children’s Rights. In: Children in the International Political Economy. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375536_9
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