› › Islamic Law And The Crc Convention On The Rights Of The Child

Human Rights and Islam

Author : Abdullah Saeed

Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing

Page : 333 pages

File Size : 30,15 MB

Release : 2018-04-27

Category : Law

ISBN : 1784716588

Get eBook

Book Description

Is there a basis for human rights in Islam? Beginning with an exploration of what rights are and how the human rights discourse developed, Abdullah Saeed explores the resources that exist within Islamic tradition. He looks at those that are compatible with international human rights law and can be garnered to promote and protect human rights in Muslim-majority states. A number of rights are given specific focus, including the rights of women and children, freedom of expression and religion, as well as jihad and the laws of war. Human Rights and Islam emphasises the need for Muslims to rethink problematic areas of Islamic thought that are difficult to reconcile with contemporary conceptions of human rights.



Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Author : Rachel Hodgkin

Publisher : United Nations Publications

Page : 787 pages

File Size : 42,69 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Law

ISBN : 9789280641837

Get eBook

Book Description

"The Handbook aims to be a practical tool for implementation, explaining and illustrating the implications of each article of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and of the two Optional Protocols adopted in 2000 as well as their interconnections."--P. xvii.



The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

Author : Ton Liefaard

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 964 pages

File Size : 13,82 MB

Release : 2016-11-01

Category : Law

ISBN : 9004295054

Get eBook

Book Description

In 2014 the world’s most widely ratified human rights treaty, one specifically for children, reached the milestone of its twenty-fifth anniversary. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and in the time since then it has entered a new century, reshaping laws, policies, institutions and practices across the globe, along with fundamental conceptions of who children are, their rights and entitlements, and society’s duties and obligations to them. Yet despite its rapid entry into force worldwide, there are concerns that the Convention remains a high-level paper treaty without the traction on the ground needed to address ever-continuing violations of children’s rights. This book, based on papers from the conference ‘25 Years CRC’ held by the Department of Child Law at Leiden University, draws together a rich collection of research and insight by academics, practitioners, NGOs and other specialists to reflect on the lessons of the past 25 years, take stock of how international rights find their way into children’s lives at the local level, and explore the frontiers of children’s rights for the 25 years ahead.



Child Custody in Islamic Law

Author : Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 281 pages

File Size : 20,85 MB

Release : 2018-08-09

Category : History

ISBN : 1108470564

Get eBook

Book Description

A longitudinal history of Islamic child custody law, challenging Euro-American exceptionalism to reveal developments that considered the best interests of the child.



Litigating the Rights of the Child

Author : Ton Liefaard

Publisher : Springer

Page : 277 pages

File Size : 41,17 MB

Release : 2014-09-29

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9401794456

Get eBook

Book Description

This book examines the impact of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on national and international jurisprudence, since its adoption in 1989. It offers state of the art knowledge on the functions, challenges and limitations of the CRC in domestic, regional and international children’s rights litigation. Litigating the Rights of the Child provides insight in the role of the CRC in domestic jurisprudence in ten countries from different parts of the world, with civil law, common law and Islamic law systems. In addition, it offers analyses of the jurisprudence of regional courts, in Europe and the Americas, and of human rights treaty bodies, including the Human Rights Committee, Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. This book presents a global and comparative picture on the use of the CRC in litigation and identifies emerging trends. This book serves as an important source of reference and inspiration for academics, students, legal professionals, including judges and lawyers, and (inter)national organisations working in the area of children’s rights.



The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: An Analysis of Treaty Provisions and Implications of U.S. Ratification

Author : Jonathan Todres

Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Page : 395 pages

File Size : 35,62 MB

Release : 2006-05-01

Category : Law

ISBN : 1571053638

Get eBook

Book Description

This in-depth text goes beyond the rhetoric of the debate on children’s rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in particular, to provide a detailed examination of the impact that U.S. ratification of the Convention would have on U.S. law. The chapters have been written by leading children’s advocates and scholars with a general audience in mind, as the authors believe that it is important for all Americans to become informed about the Convention and about children’s rights in general. With a greater understanding of the substance of the Convention and children’s rights, readers will be better positioned to determine what the real issues are, what is simply rhetoric without any basis in fact or law, and how they can address the real issues in an effective manner in order to provide a better world for all children.



Protecting the World's Children

Author :

Publisher :

Page : 272 pages

File Size : 50,23 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Children

ISBN : 9781107181946

Get eBook

Book Description

The book provides examples of ways in which the CRC has been successfully incorporated into diverse legal systems and derives from that experience a framework for improved alignment of national legislation with human rights instruments and with the CRC in particular, taking into account not only the provisions of the CRC but also its underlying principles, such as indivisibility of rights and the importance of partnership in realizing children's rights. As such it provides practitioners with a tool for supporting the legal aspects of implementation of the CRC as a foundation for implementation overall."--Jacket



A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 15: The Right to Freedom of Association and to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly

Author : Aoife Daly

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 120 pages

File Size : 18,42 MB

Release : 2016-04-08

Category : Law

ISBN : 9004258833

Get eBook

Book Description

In this commentary, Aoife Daly provides analysis of Article 15 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – the right of children to freedom of association and assembly. Relevant international law text and case law are examined, but this commenary goes beyond this to reconceptualise Article 15. The right is applied to themes as varied as association with family and friends, political demonstrations, and the unionisation of working children, with the special position of children to the forefront of the analysis. Possibilities for progressing the right through UN mechanisms, courts and other arenas are considered. In doing so, this book pushes traditional boundaries to and understandings of association and assembly, drawing-out particularly child-specific elements of this crucial right.



Religious Legal Traditions, International Human Rights Law and Muslim States

Author : Kamran Hashemi

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 305 pages

File Size : 17,20 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Law

ISBN : 900416555X

Get eBook

Book Description

This book offers an exploration of aspects of the subject, Islam and Human Rights, which is the focus of considerable scholarship in recent years predominantly from Western scholars. Thus it is interesting and important to have the field addressed from a non -Western perspective and by an Iranian scholar. The study draws on Persian language literature that addresses both theological and legal dimensions of the theme. The work is also distinctive in that it tackles three areas that have been largely ignored in the literature. It undertakes a comparative study of the laws of several Muslim States with respect to religious freedom, minorities and the rights of the child. The study offers an optimistic vision of the fundamental compatibility of Islam and international human rights standards.



Implementing Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Author : Rebecca Thorburn Stern

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 222 pages

File Size : 24,21 MB

Release : 2017-07-31

Category : Law

ISBN : 9004324054

Get eBook

Book Description

In Participation, Power and Attitudes: Implementing Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Rebecca Thorburn Stern analyses how CRC state parties describe their implementation of Article 12 on respect for the child’s views. The focus of the study is on if, and how, references to traditional attitudes are used by state parties to explain their actions and inactions when implementing this key right and principle. It is shown that 'traditional attitudes' are employed less as justification of poor implementation than as a way of allocating responsibility to the population rather than to the state party, and that references to tradition remain a mainly non-Western phenomenon, thus also overlooking the impact of traditional attitudes in Western societies.