INTERNATIONAL REGIMES FOR CHILD RIGHTS

REDD+ and Human Rights: Addressing Synergies between International Regimes

The making of the REDD+ mechanism in the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has raised specific concerns on how to reconcile incentives for forest carbon sequestration with the protection of the rights of the numerous communities that rely upon forests for their livelihood, shelter, and survival. Although the nascent REDD+ mechanism provides an oppor...

Child Rights and Child Poverty: Can the International Framework of Children's Rights Be Used to Improve Child Survival Rates?

“Jo lives—that is to say, Jo has not yet died—in a ruinous place, known to the like of him by the name of Tom-all-Alone. It is a black, dilapidated street, avoided by all decent people...Now, these tumbling tenements contain, by night, a swarm of misery...As, on the ruined human wretch, vermin parasites appear, so, these ruined shelters have bred a crowd of foul existence that crawls in and out...

Theories of international regimes

Human Rights Promotion through Transnational Investment Regimes: An International Political Economy Approach

International investment agreements are foundational instruments in a transnational investment regime that governs how states regulate the foreign-owned assets and the foreign investment activities of private actors. Over 3,000 investment agreements between states govern key governmental powers and form the basis for an emerging transnational investment regime. This transnational regime signifi...

Child feeding and human rights

BACKGROUND The human right to adequate food needs to be interpreted for the special case of young children because they are vulnerable, others make the choices for them, and their diets are not diverse. There are many public policy issues relating to child feeding. DISCUSSION The core of the debate lies in differences in views on the merits of infant formula. In contexts in which there is str...