OEA/Ser.L/V/II.133

Doc. 34

29 October 2008

Original: Spanish

 

THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD IN THE INTER-AMERICAN HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM

SECOND EDITION

 

 TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

CHAPTER I       GENERAL INFORMATION

 

            A.    Creation, Composition, and Mandate of the Rapporteurship on the
Rights of the Child

           

            B.    Principal Functions of the Rapporteurship

 

  C.     General approach to the inter-American system of human rights, with special emphasis on children

 

1.       Nature of the instruments in the Inter-American System applicable to children
 

2.       Definition of the child in International Human Rights Law

 

         3.       Concept of corpus juris in the human rights of children and
         adolescents
 

         4.       Prohibition of suspension of international obligations related to
human rights of children
 

                   5.       Interaction between the inter-American system and the universal
system for protection of the human rights of children

 

CHAPTER II    JURISPRUDENCE OF THE INTER-AMERICAN SYSTEM OF HUMAN RIGHTS PERTAINING TO CHILDREN

 

  A.     Decisions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

 

  B.     Summary of a selection of decisions related to children, adopted by
the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

 

            C.     Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights