Legal protection of social and economic rights of children in developing countries
Subtitle: reassessing international cooperation and responsibility
By: Michael Nyongesa Wabwile
Publisher: Intersentia
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Antwerp; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9789400001077
Subjects: Children (International law); Children's rights; Convention on the Rights of the Child; International cooperation; Children; Legal status, laws; Social rights
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-258).
Table of contents: title: A general introduction; title: The legal and institutional framework for international protection of children's social and economic rights; title: Implementing the social and economic rights of children in developing countries : the place of international assistance and cooperation; title: Re-examining states' external obligations to implement economic and social rights of children : towards a theory of diagonal obligations; title: Reconstructing the legal basis and scope of states' fulfil-bound diagonal obligations in economic and social rights; title: Securing implementation and enforcement of states' diagonal obligations to support fulfilment of economic and social rights; title: Beneath and beyond states : exploring global obligations of non state actors to fulfil children's economic and social rights; title: Conclusion and further reflections.