Table 9: Children’s Health and the Right to Education

Table 9: Children’s Health and the Right to Education Examples of Human Rights Violations Legislation requiring payment for primary education, or otherwise making primary education not accessible in an equitable manner for all children. High dropout rates, particularly among children belonging to vulnerable groups, including children from rural areas; children living in economic hardship and deprivation; Roma children and children from other minority groups; refugee and internally displaced children. Poor…

Table 10: Children’s Health and Freedom from Economic or Sexual Exploitation

Table 10: Children’s Health and Freedom from Economic or Sexual Exploitation Examples of Human Rights Violations Recruitment of children in domestic services, agriculture, and mining. The minimum age of employment is lower than the age of compulsory schooling, or lower than international standards. High incidence of child labour and sex trafficking, with a harmful impact on the education and health of children. Limited action to combat sexual exploitation and abuse…

Table 11: Children’s Health and Freedom from Harmful Traditional Practices

Table 11: Children’s Health and Freedom from Harmful Traditional Practices Examples of Human Rights Violations State takes limited measures to prevent harmful traditional practices that are prejudicial to the health and well-being of children. Female genital mutilation of young girls, and impunity for perpetrators. Early and forced marriages of children. Discrimination and abandonment of twins out of traditional belief that they are bad luck. Human Rights Standards Treaty Body Interpretation…

Example 1: Court in Bangladesh finding that corporal punishment in school is a violation of children’s international human rights

Example 1: Court in Bangladesh finding that corporal punishment in school is a violation of children’s international human rights  Project Type: Litigation: Blast v. Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Others, Supreme Court of Bangladesh, Writ Petition No.5684 of 210 (January 13, 2011). Organizations Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) Dhaka, Bangladesh E-mail:  ask@citechco.net Website:  www.askbd.org Bangladesh Legal Aid Services Trust (BLAST) Dhaka, Bangladesh E-mail:  mail@blast.org.bd Website:  www.blast.org.bd Bangladesh Legal Aid…

Example 2: European Court of Human Rights protecting a migrant child from forced labor and servitude in France

Example 2: European Court of Human Rights protecting a migrant child from forced labor and servitude in France  Project Type: Litigation: Siliadin v. France, Judgment, merits and just satisfaction, App. No. 73316/01 (ECHR 2005). Actor Siwa-Akofa Siliadin, a Togolese national, represented by a legal aid attorney, H. Clément of the Paris Bar. Problem  Ms. Siliadin was born in 1978 and arrived in Paris on a tourist visa in 1994 at age 15.…

Example 3: Youth Readiness Intervention in Sierra Leone

Example 3: Youth Readiness Intervention in Sierra Leone Project Type: Advocacy/Capacity Building Organization François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights Longitudinal Study of War-Affected Youth (LSWAY) Principal Investigator: Theresa S. Betancourt, Sc.D., M.A. Website:  www.harvardfxbcenter.org/research-program-on-children-and-global-adversity  The François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University is an interdisciplinary academic center that works to advance the rights and wellbeing of children, adolescents, youth and their families living in the…

Example 4: National Children’s Summits realizing the right to participation in Rwanda

Example 4: National Children’s Summits realizing the right to participation in Rwanda Project Type: Advocacy Organization  The Rwandan National Children’s Summit has been held annually since 2004. It is a national forum with the children of Rwanda and policy makers in Rwanda’s National Parliament. The Summit, organized by the National Children’s Commission, in partnership with the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion and UNICEF, has provided children with a special opportunity…

Example 5: Legal advocacy for children with differences of sex development (DSD) or intersex conditions

Example 5: Legal advocacy for children with differences of sex development (DSD) or intersex conditions  Project Type: Advocacy Organization Advocates for Informed Choice Cotati, California, United States Website:  http://aiclegal.org/ Facebook:  www.facebook.com/aiclaw Advocates for Informed Choice (AIC) is the only organization in the US to undertake a coordinated strategy of legal advocacy for the rights of children with differences of sex development (DSD) or intersex conditions. DSD or intersex conditions are congenital variations of…

Children’s Health Resources

Children’s Health Resources A. International Instruments Binding International Labour Organization, Convention concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment, No. 138 (1973). www.ilocarib.org.tt/projects/cariblex/conventions_6.shtml. International Labour Organization, Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour, No. 182 (1999). www.ilocarib.org.tt/projects/cariblex/conventions_9.shtml. UN General Assembly, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Resolution 44/25, A/44/49 (1989). www.unicef.org/crc/. UN General Assembly, Optional Protocol to the Convention on the…

Children’s Health Key Terms

Children’s Health Key Terms A Adolescent Any individual aged between 10-19 years B Best Interests of the Child In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration. C Child All human beings under the age of 18 unless the relevant national law recognizes an earlier age…