UNICEF and the implementation of the convention on the rights of the child

Global Governance

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 183-198

  Oestreich, Joel E ^a  

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EID: 0032221237     PISSN: 10752846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/19426720-00402005     Document Type: Review

References (22)

1. Tom Farer and Felice Gaer, "The United Nations and Human Rights: At the End of the Beginning," in Adam Roberts and Benedict Kingsbury, eds., United Nations, Divided World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 247.
2. See David Weissbrodt and Rose Farley, "The UNESCO Human Rights Procedure: An Evaluation," Human Rights Quarterly 16 (May 1994): 391-414. See also "Monitoring Human Rights by the U.N. System and International Organizations," in Donald Kummers and Gilburt Loescher, eds., Human Rights and American Foreign Policy (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 157-178.
3. See David Weissbrodt and Rose Farley, "The UNESCO Human Rights Procedure: An Evaluation," Human Rights Quarterly 16 (May 1994): 391-414. See also "Monitoring Human Rights by the U.N. System and International Organizations," in Donald Kummers and Gilburt Loescher, eds., Human Rights and American Foreign Policy (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 157-178.
4. For details of the internal politics of UNICEF during this time, I am indebted to "UNICEF and the Convention on the Rights of the Child," an unpublished document prepared by the UNICEF History Project.
5. Philip Alston and K. Tomasevski, eds., The Right to Food (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1984).
6. Philip Alston, "The Best Interests Principle: Towards a Reconciliation of Culture and Human Rights," in Philip Alston, ed., The Best Interests of the Child (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), p. 3.
7. James P. Grant, "Child Rights: A Central Moral Imperative of Our Time" (statement to the third committee of the 49th General Assembly of the United Nations, New York, 11 November 1994).
8. UNICEF, "Role of UNICEF in the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child," E/ICEF/1991/L.7, 6 February 1991.
9. UNICEF, Interoffice Memorandum pmo/triprep, 29 October 1991.
10. "Convention on the Rights of the Child: Initial Report Under Article 44, Paragraph 1(a) of the Convention: Jamaica," October 1993.
11. "Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 44 of the Convention: Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Jamaica," Committee on the Rights of the Child, CRC/C/15/Add.32, 15 February 1995.
12. "Report of Children's Rights Planning Meeting," International Child Development Centre, Florence, 6-8 July 1989.
13. For a straightforward assesment of this process, see Marjorie Newman-Black, "Introduction," in The Convention: Child Rights and UNICEF Experience at the Country Level (Florence: International Child Development Centre, 1991), pp. 8-11.
14. Farer and Gaer, pp. 271-272.
15. Philip Alston, "The Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights," in Philip Alston, ed., The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), p. 499.
16. The phrase is borrowed from a paper given by Sigrun Skogly at the March 1996 meeting of the International Studies Association.
17. Quoted in David Forsythe, "The Red Cross as a Transnational Movement: Conserving and Changing the Nation-State System," International Organization 30 (autumn 1976): 615. For an excellent study of the UNHCR, see Leon Gordenker, Refugees in International Politics (London: Croom Helm, 1987).
18. Quoted in David Forsythe, "The Red Cross as a Transnational Movement: Conserving and Changing the Nation-State System," International Organization 30 (autumn 1976): 615. For an excellent study of the UNHCR, see Leon Gordenker, Refugees in International Politics (London: Croom Helm, 1987).
19. See Gil Loescher, Beyond Charity: International Cooperation in the Global Refugee Crisis (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 80; W. R. Smyser, Refugees: Extended Exile (New York: Praeger, 1987), p. 43.
20. See Gil Loescher, Beyond Charity: International Cooperation in the Global Refugee Crisis (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 80; W. R. Smyser, Refugees: Extended Exile (New York: Praeger, 1987), p. 43.
21. See Felice Gaer, "Reality Check: Human Rights NGOs Confront Governments at the UN," in Thomas Weiss and Leon Gordenker, eds., NGOs, the UN, and Global Governance (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1996), pp. 51-66.
22. Nicolas Vaticos, "The International Labour Organisation," in Karel Vasak, ed., The International Dimensions of Human Rights, vol. 1 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982), pp. 268-372.