Full Description
In this commentary, Sabine Witting provides a comprehensive analysis of the Second Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. This commentary critically reflects on the impact of globalisation, digital technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic on the nature, scope and meaning of the Second Optional Protocol since its adoption on 25 May 2000. Apart from analysing a broad range of topics, from online child sexual abuse to surrogacy and 'voluntourism', this commentary highlights the importance of establishing child-friendly transnational collaboration mechanisms, conceptualised through a holistic gender lens and taking into consideration the online-offline nexus of violence against children and relevant Global North-Global South dynamics.
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Author Biography
Disclaimer
Acknowledgments
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography
1 Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Impact of Globalisation and Digital Technologies
1.3 Impact of COVID-19
1.4 Cross-Cutting Themes
2 Comparison with Related International Human Rights Standards
2.1 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
2.2 Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention ('Budapest Convention'), 2003
2.3 Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse ('Lanzarote Convention'), 2007
2.4 African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, 1990
2.5 African Convention on Personal Data Protection and Cyber Security, 2015
2.6 Hague Conventions (1980, 1993, 1996)
2.7 ILO Convention No. 182, 1999
3 Meaning and Scope
3.1 Drafting History and Recent Developments
3.2 Analysis of OPSC Articles
4 >OPSC in Continuous Need of Review in a Globalised, Digitalised and Rapidly Changing World
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