Full Description
Independent children's rights institutions (ICRIs) have been established across the world. Endorsed by the UN, they are independent of their governments and endowed with legal powers. Yet we know little about how ICRIs function. How do they work? What impacts their success? What objectives do ICRIs seek to achieve?
The contributors to this edited collection provide first-hand experiences in directing, working for, and studying ICRIs and detail their unique, in-depth accounts of factors shaping ICRIs' efforts to monitor and advance children's rights. Chapters examine ICRIs in Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, Pakistan, and the United States, as well as an extraordinary network of ICRIs, and introduce innovative ideas of how to think about ICRIs' independence and legal powers. Offering perspectives from across the world, this volume provides both theoretical and practical insights on a crucial element of children's rights, independent children's rights institutions.
The Roles of Independent Children's Rights Institutions in Advancing Human Rights of Children is essential reading for students, researchers, and scholars interested in studies of sociology of childhood, law and society, children's rights, and human rights.
Contents
Preface; Maria Herczog
Introduction: Agnes Lux and Brian Gran
Section 1. Children's Ombudsperson's Perspectives of their Work and its Impacts
Chapter 1. 'Be Bold, Be Brave, Speak Out': The Role of the Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland (CYPCS) during the Pandemic; Bruce Adamson and Gina Wilson
Chapter 2. The Job of a Lifetime: Looking back on my years as a Children's Rights Commissioner (1998 - 2009); Ankie Vandekerckhove
Section 2. Children's Ombudspersons Working in Europe
Chapter 3. Ireland's Ombudsman for Children - Combining Power and Influence to Advance Children's Rights; Ursula Kilkelly and Emily Logan
Chapter 4. How to Research Independent Children's Rights Institutions: Lessons Learned from the Evaluation of the Dutch Children's Ombudsman; Katrien Klep, Stephanie Rap, and Valérie Pattyn
Chapter 5. Analysis of the Performance of the Hungarian Ombudsman Related to Children's Rights Through the Lens of the UN CRC's Four Guiding Principles; Agnes Lux
Chapter 6. The Role of the NHRI in Germany; Rita Richter Nunes
Section 3. Children's Ombudspersons in Pakistan and the United States
Chapter 7. Why the United States needs A National Children's Rights Ombudsperson; Brian Gran
Chapter 8. The Founding Law of Pakistan's National Commission on The Rights of The Child: Legal Challenges, Bureaucratic Barriers and Vague Opportunities; Abdullah Khoso and Umbreen Kousar
Section 4. ICRIs 'Engagement in the UNCRC Monitoring Mechanisms and Questions of Independence
Chapter 9. International Monitoring of The United Nations Convention on The Rights of the Child: Assessing the Engagement of the Independent Children's Rights Institutions; Zsuzsanna Rutai
Chapter 10. The European Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC): Key Influences on Children's Rights Promotion; Robin Shura and Brian Gran
Section 5. Conclusions
Chapter 11. Conclusions: A Big Picture of Independent Children's Rights Institutions'; Agnes Lux and Brian Gran
