Protecting the most vulnerable at the edge
Subtitle: the landmark rulings of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the rights of the child
By: by Mónica Feria Tinta.
Series: International studies in human rights ; vol. 96
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 671
ISBN-13: 9789004165137
Subjects: Inter-American Court of Human Rights -- Rules and practice; Children's rights -- America; Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- America; Children's rights -- America -- Cases
Genres: Cases.
Other titles: Landmark rulings of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the rights of the child
Description: This is the first comprehensive treatment of the topic of the Rights of the Child as reflected in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It reviews all decisions of the Inter-American Court relating to the Rights of the Child and analyses the principles held therein making them available to practitioners, academics and students of this area of the law.
Table of contents: title: Protecting the right to life of at-risk children : the street children case; title: Children as true legal persons; title: The first international law cases concerning the protection of children in times of war in the world; title: The right to nationality and to equal protection : the Yean and Bosico children case; title: Consolidating principles on the protection of children in internal armed conflicts : the case of the massacre of Mapiripan and the case of the massacres of Ituango vs. Colombia; title: The protection of children of indigenous peoples : the case of the Sawhoyamaxa indigenous community v. Paraguay; title: The meaning of the superior interest of the child in post conflict societies : Survellon Garcia and others vs. Honduras; title: Child soldiers in Paraguay : the case of Vargas Areco; title: The pending task of construing the meaning of the rights of the family in the jurisprudence of the court; title: Reparations in cases of violations of human rights of children; title: Upcoming contentious cases on children's rights in the system.