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Record Nr.

UNINA9910404255403321

Autore

Haugli Trude

Titolo

Children's constitutional rights in the Nordic Countries / / Trude Haugli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brill, 2019

Leiden Boston : , : Brill | Nijhoff, , 2020

ISBN

90-04-38281-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Stockholm Studies in Child Law and Children’s Rights; ; volume5

Disciplina

342.4808/772

Soggetti

Children - Legal status, laws, etc - Scandinavia

Children - Civil rights - Scandinavia

Children's rights - Scandinavia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction to children's constitutional rights -- Children's rights in nordic constitutional law -- Best interests of the child in nordic law -- Children's right to participation in nordic law -- Children's right to family life in nordic law -- Concluding analysis.

Sommario/riassunto

The book presents a comparative study of children’s constitutional rights in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The authors discuss the value of enshrining children’s rights in national constitutions in addition to implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Central issues are whether enshrining children’s rights in the Constitution improves implementation and enforcement of those rights by providing advocacy tools and by mandating courts, legislators, policy-makers and practitioners to take children’s rights seriously. The study assesses whether the Nordic constitutions are in line with the child rights approach of the CRC both on a general level and in detail in three domains; the best interests of the child, participation rights, and the right to respect for family life.