The International Legal Protection of Children in Street Situations

The book conducts a comprehensive analysis of codified international legal instruments and documents in their application to children in street situations, employing soft law documents to elucidate treaty interpretation and supplement existing legal standards. The research adopts a holistic approach, correlating international legal instruments with root causes and consequences for children in street situations, while systematically examining issues of intersectionality, such as economic, social, and cultural rights, civil and political rights, minority rights including disability rights, rights of the girl-child, as well as LGBTQI+ and migrant rights, reparations, impact of violence, and access to essential services like health, food, and housing, with various human rights issues, including economic, social, cultural, and civil-political rights. It presents the plight of children in street situations as a human rights concern, offering guidance on utilising international legal sources in rights claims procedures. The study also integrates sociological and political perspectives with legal and governmental policy issues, examining the influence of external factors such as conditional lending and structural adjustment programmes, wars, and decolonisation on social policies and their consequent impact on children and families by rendering children in street situations 'visible' as a distinct category requiring urgent attention in State policy formulation. By systematically integrating international legal instruments with practical policy considerations and applications concerning children in street situations, this scholarly work serves as a comprehensive legal framework for State governments, their bodies and social workers, and a valuable advocacy guide for interest groups including non-governmental organisations, proposing future directions for policy and research for addressing the rights and needs of children in street situations.

Provides an international legal perspective addressing a research gap in the discourse on street children Acts as guide or handbook within states in governance, policy, and programming for children in street situations Is a useful advocacy resource for children in street situations, third parties acting on their behalf, and civil society

Auteur

Dr. Sylvia N. Agu has a background in legal academia and practice. Her educational credentials encompass degrees from Anglia Ruskin University, Queen Mary, University of London, and Cardiff University, all in the United Kingdom. She is a qualified Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales where her areas of work include Family, Immigration, Litigation, Property, and Business & Company Law. She obtained her doctorate degree from the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel (CAU), Germany. She has presented her work in the area of children in street situations at various conferences and is a member of The Childhood, Law & Policy Network at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research borders topics within Public International Law, dealing with aspects of human rights and humanitarian law, children's rights, migration law, and juvenile justice within the children in street situations discourse. She has published, under previous name, in this area (Sylvia Nwamaraihe, Book Review on Yvonne Dutton's Rules, Politics, and the International Criminal Court - Committing to the Court, German Yearbook of International Law 56 (2014) and Sylvia Nwamaraihe, The International Legal Protection of Street Children in Su Lyn Corcoran and Dimitrina Kaneva (eds), Being 'on the Margins': Exploring Intersections, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2016). Previously, she lectured students on 'Introduction to Mergers & Acquisitions' and the 'Language of International Law on the Rights of the Child' at the Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany and on the International Business Management Course on 'Private International Law, European Union Law, and German Law' at the VICTORIA International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany. She concurrently held the positions as a Researcher, Lecturer on 'International Criminal Law' and 'International Law on the Rights of the Child,' and Assistant Editor and Project Manager for the German Yearbook of International Law, at the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the CAU, Germany. Her professional experience also includes positions at the Overseas Development Institute in London and at Centre 404, a charitable organisation that assists parents and caregivers of children with disabilities in London. Additionally, she contributed her time to Save the Children in the United Kingdom.

Contenu

Children in Street Situations.- The Development of the International Rights of the Child and the Consideration of Children in Street Situations.- Protection of Children in Street Situations in International Human Rights Treaties.- Protection of Children in Street Situations in Other International Human Rights Documents and Mechanisms.- Assessment of Current Procedural Protections in International Human Rights Instruments.- Further Possibilities to Improve the Protection of Children in Street Situations.