School of Education

DATE: 20^th June
TIME: 2.30 – 3.30pm
VENUE: 20 College Green Room 0G/005

SPEAKER: Aoife Nolan, Professor of Law at the University of Nottingham has been appointed as a visiting professor in the Centre for Children’s Rights.

Recent years have seen an explosion in methodologies for monitoring children’s economic and social rights (ESR). Key examples include the development of indicators, benchmarks, child rights-based budget analysis and child rights impact assessments. The Committee on the Right of the Child has praised such tools in its work and has actively promoted their usage. Troublingly, however, there are serious shortcomings in the Committee’s approach to the ESR standards enshrined in the CRC, which threaten to impact upon the efficacy of such methodologies. This article argues that the Committee has failed to engage with the substantive obligations imposed by Article 4 and many of the specific ESR guaranteed in the CRC in sufficient depth. As a result, that body has not succeeded in outlining a coherent, comprehensive child rights-specific ESR framework. Using the example of child rights-based budget analysis, the author claims that this omission constitutes a significant obstacle to those seeking to evaluate the extent to which states have met their ESR-related obligations under the CRC. The article thus brings together and addresses key issues that have so far received only very limited critical academic attention, namely, children’s ESR under the CRC, the relationship between budgetary decision-making and the CRC, and child rights-based budget analysis. 

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TIME: Registration 9.30 am
DATE: 26th and 27th June
VENUE: Riddel Hall, Stranmillis
RSVP: By e-mail to Niki Moat or by telephone 02890973801

GUEST SPEAKERS:

• Prof Tony Gallager (Pro Vice Chancellor, QUB)
• Prof Colin Knox (UU)
• Prof Violeta Petroska-Beska (Chair of the Centre for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, Macedonia)
• Dr Shany Payes (Head of the Peace Studies at Nazareth Academic Institute, Israel)
• Prof Mark Hadfield (University of Cardiff), and
• Prof Joanne Hughes (QUB)

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