Child Rights

The UK before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (Rachel Harvey, The Children and Armed Conflict Unit) (September 2002)

Originally published in childRIGHT magazine, this article covers the U.K.’s presentation before the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child and highlights its successes and failures in meeting the international standards of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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The ‘Right to Life’ Commentary on Article 2 (Rachel Harvey and Emilia Mugnai) (August 2002)

A full and thorough analysis of the Right to Life from Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights and what it means to states and in the context of child rights.

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The NGO report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child: The Children and Armed Conflict Unit's submission (Rachel Harvey, The Children and Armed Conflict Unit) (June 2002)

This document was the Children and Armed Conflict Unit’s NGO submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child relating to the United Kingdom’s report to that committee. In it, Rachel Harvey addresses whether the U.K. was meeting its obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child

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