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Reservations To The Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women And The Convention On The Rights Of The Child, William A. Schabas
Reservations To The Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women And The Convention On The Rights Of The Child, William A. Schabas
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
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The United Nations Convention Of The Rights Of The Child: A Feminist Landmark, Cynthia Price Cohen
The United Nations Convention Of The Rights Of The Child: A Feminist Landmark, Cynthia Price Cohen
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child,1 adopted by the General Assembly on November 20, 1989, is a ground-breaking human rights treaty for many reasons. It had the largest number of signatories on the day that it was opened for signature.2 It went into force more quickly than any other human rights treaty;3 it reached near-universal ratification by mid-1996;4 and it protects the entire range of human rights: civilpolitical, economic-social-cultural, and humanitarian.5 In addition, the Convention's monitoring mechanism gives unique powers to its monitoring body, the Committee on the Rights of the Child.6 Unfortunately, these achievements have …