Child Protection and the European Court of Human Rights : Lessons from Norway in the Development and Contestation of Children's Rights

• Autore: Stein Helland Hege
• Pubblicazione: Bristol : , : Policy Press, , 2025; ©2025
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 pages)
• Disciplina: 346.481013083
• Altri autori: SkivenesMarit GloppenSiri
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover -- Child Protection and the European Court of Human Rights: Lessons from Norway in the Development and Contestation of Children's Rights -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of abbreviations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Children's rights under pressure: Norway, the European Court of Human Rights and the challenges to welfare state legitimacy -- Introduction -- The European Court of Human Rights and child rights -- Child rights and child protection in the European Court of Human Rights -- Rule of law and child flourishing -- Child protection and the member states of the European Court of Human Rights -- Structure of the book -- The European Court of Human Rights from a national perspective -- Transnational influence of the European Court of Human Rights -- The European Court of Human Rights and its jurisprudence -- Notes -- References -- PART I 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? -- What this chapter is about -- The Strand Lobben group of cases -- Interrogating two aspects of uniqueness: methodology -- The comparative perspective: child welfare cases against other states from December 2015 to December 2024 -- Norway stands out in numbers -- Looking behind the numbers -- The inter-​state perspective: the occurrence of third-​party state intervention against Norway -- Home state intervention -- States intervening as third parties regardless of a national link -- Conclusion -- Appendix 2.1 List of all decided and pending child welfare cases against Norway (alphabetical order) -- Appendix 2.2 List of child welfare cases against other Council of Europe member states (alphabetical order) -- Notes -- References. ; 3 Child protection and the European Court of Human Rights: the case of Finland and Article 8 -- Introduction -- The European Court of Human Rights judgments regarding Article 8 and Finnish child protection -- Implications of the European Court of Human Rights case law on Finnish child protection -- Implications for child welfare legislation -- Implications for the Supreme Administrative Court's decisions -- Child welfare policy and practice: permanent care orders or not? -- Discussion and conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Children's rights and European Court of Human Rights judgments' effects on Norwegian courts and jurisprudence -- Introduction -- The European Court of Human Rights: the reunification goal and contact -- The Supreme Court's interpretation and adaptation -- Changes in practice -- Children's rights in this context -- Introduction -- Freedom from violence and right to care -- Right to health -- Right to development -- Right to family life -- Best interests and the child's views -- The European Court of Human Rights and the child's best interests -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5 Implementing international human rights case law at the domestic street level: the case of Norwegian child protection -- Introduction -- Discretion and implementation of judicial policies -- Judicial implementation and change -- The judgments in context -- Methods -- Operationalisation and coding -- Ethical considerations -- Findings and analysis -- Reception: the disrupting and unwelcomed judgments -- Interpretation -- From reception to interpretation: decisions to accept the judicial policy -- Sources of interpretation: the importance of signalling from legal actors and authorities -- Administrative authorities: an insufficient source of interpretation -- Adjustments -- Culture -- Procedures -- Practical and professional. ; Concluding discussion -- What happened, why and what happens now? -- Limitations -- Notes -- References -- 6 Representations of children in European Court of Human Rights judgments -- Introduction -- The Norwegian child protection system and children's participation rights -- Prior literature -- Research methods -- Findings -- The child as a subject -- The child as an object -- Discussion and conclusions -- Study limitations -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 7 Exploring ethnicity constructs in European Court of Human Rights judgments -- Introduction -- Human rights, children's rights and minoritised groups in Europe and Norway -- Ethnicity, culture and religion -- Methodological approach and data material -- The data -- Data analysis -- Findings -- The case histories -- 'Ethnic Norwegian' as the normative ethnic construct -- Ethnicity as essentialist and demarcated -- Ethnicity as acceptably similar to the norm -- Ethnicity as different and worthy of protection -- Ethnicity as different and potentially dangerous and ethnic separation as a solution -- The European Court of Human Rights' stance -- Discussion and conclusions -- Limitations -- Notes -- References -- PART II Transnational influence of the European Court of Human Rights -- 8 Prioritising the child's best interests: mixed messages in the international human rights arena -- Introduction -- The best interests of the child -- European Convention on Human Rights -- The evolution of European Court thinking on child protection -- Strand Lobben and its progeny -- United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child -- Concluding Observations -- Communications Procedure -- General Comments -- Days of General Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 9 Think of the children! Children's rights as the new frontier in anti-​gender contestation -- Introduction. ; Disinformation universe -- Mobilising the troops: landscape of activism against children's rights -- Contesting children's rights: ideological origins and discursive use -- Human dignity -- Think of the children! -- Key anti-​gender actors mobilising on state intervention on child protection -- Multi-​pronged advocacy: how anti-​gender actors engage in children's rights -- Lawfare in individual cases -- Public awareness campaigns -- Targeting Norway and the 'Nordic model' -- Influencing international norms -- Lifting the veil on the four prominent organisations -- Conclusions: Anti-​gender contestation of child protection as a blind spot -- Appendix 9.1 List of data materials used for analysis -- Notes -- References -- 10 When 'bad friends' lobby the court against human rights -- Introduction -- The problem: third-​party interventions by bad amicus -- Two theoretical approaches to the margin of appreciation: positivism and discourse theory -- Legal positivism and the MoA -- Discourse theory and the margin of appreciation -- How the different theories cope with bad amicus -- Conclusion: Bad amicus and the threat towards individual dignity -- References -- 11 Mobilised interests, the European Court of Human Rights and children's rights -- Introduction -- Conceptual approach -- Data and methods -- Analysis: the Norwegian case study -- State governments as amicus curiae -- Interest and advocacy groups as amicus curiae -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART III The European Court of Human Rights and its jurisprudence -- 12 Children and rights to identity at the European Court of Human Rights -- Introduction -- The human of human rights who has a personal identity -- A right to personal identity at the European Court of Human Rights -- European Court of Human Rights case law on children and personal identity -- Knowledge of origins. ; Birth family ties and cultural identity -- Identity documents -- Children's access to information and education -- Girls, young women and Islamic headscarves -- Social conditions for children's identity: living together in equality and broadmindedness -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 13 Normative considerations about the guiding principles for the European Court of Human Rights allocating custody in child protection -- Introduction -- Considerations on custody and caring for children -- Considerations that underpin any allocation of custody -- Property argument -- Commitment-​identity argument -- Attachment argument -- Competency argument -- Balancing various interests -- The fiduciary role -- Discussion -- Strand Lobben and Others v Norway -- The majority: 13 judges -- The minority: dissenting four judges -- The case of Baby M -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 14 The relationship between the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Court of Human Rights in numbers -- Introduction -- The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Convention on Human Rights: uneasy bedfellows? -- Methodology -- General findings -- Subject areas -- General Comments of the Committee on the Rights of the Child -- Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 15 The European Court of Human Rights: an untapped source for advancing child rights? -- Introduction -- The implications of European Court of Human Rights judgments for child protection and child rights -- The parent focus in the European Court of Human Rights -- Third-​party interventions and contestation of children's rights and the Nordic model -- The European Court of Human Rights as a vehicle for human rights development: also for children?. ; Future research.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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?.
• Titolo autorizzato: Child Protection and the European Court of Human Rights
• ISBN: 1-4473-7148-8; 1-4473-7149-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911028618303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II