Article 1 of the European Convention of Human Rights gives children the same protection of their fundamental rights and freedoms as adults. However, there is a notable absence of specific provisions for their rights. What does this imply in practice?
This interdisciplinary volume brings together leading scholars in political science, law, social work and more to examine how the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) shapes and is shaped by child protection litigation and mobilisation.
Norway has had more child protection cases decided by the ECtHR than any other country, and so this book, a first of its kind, uses Norway as a specific focus and explores the evolving role of the Court in balancing parental rights, state authority and childrens best interests, offering a fresh perspective on the intersection of international human rights law, childrens rights and child protection policy.
Recenzijas
This is an important book which considers the European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence in child protection matters. This is an area that has largely been overlooked. Samantha Davey, University of Essex
1. Childrens Rights Under Pressure: Norway, the European Court of Human
Rights, and the Challenges to Welfare State Legitimacy - Hege Stein Helland,
Marit Skivenes and Siri Gloppen
Part 1: The European Court of Human Rights from a national perspective
2. Are the child welfare cases against Norway in the European Court of Human
Rights unique? - Marius Emberland
3. Child Protection and the European Court of Human Rights the case of
Finland and Article 8 - Raija Huhtanen and Tarja Pösö
4. Children's rights and the ECtHR judgements effects on Norwegian Courts
and jurisprudence - Kirsten Sandberg
5. Implementing International Human Rights Case Law at the Domestic
Street-Level: The Case of Norwegian Child Protection - Hege Stein Helland
6. Representations of children in ECtHR judgments - Katrin Kri and Daniela
Reimer
7. Exploring ethnicity constructs in ECtHR judgments - Daniela Reimer, Katrin
Kri, Mary Burns, Gabriela Serra, and Kerry Shea
Part 2: Transnational influence of the European Court of Human Rights
8. Prioritising the Childs Best Interests: Mixed Messages in the
International Human Rights Arena - Elaine E. Sutherland
9. Think of the Children! Childrens Rights as the New Frontier in
Anti-gender Contestation - Neil Datta
10. When Bad Friends Lobby the Court against Human Rights - Asgeir
Falch-Eriksen
11. Mobilised Interests, the ECtHR and Children's Rights - Rachel Cichowski
and Elizabeth Chrun
Part 3: The European Court of Human Rights and its jurisprudence
12. Children and Rights to Identity at the European Court of Human Rights -
Jill Marshall
13. Normative considerations about the guiding principles for the European
Court of Human Rights allocating custody in child protection - David Archard
and Marit Skivenes
14. The Relationship Between the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and
The European Court of Human Rights in Numbers - Claire Fenton-Glynn
15. The European Court of Human Rights an untapped source for advancing
child rights? - Hege Stein Helland, Marit Skivenes and Siri Gloppen
Hege Stein Helland is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Government and the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism at the University of Bergen.
Marit Skivenes is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Government and the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism at the University of Bergen.
Siri Gloppen is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Government and the Centre for Law & Social Transformation at the University of Bergen.
