Child Rights and Drug Control in International Law.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Overview and Context -- 1.2 Practical and Legal Challenges Relating to Children -- 1.3 Drugs, International Law and the Convention on the Rights of the Child -- 1.4 Argumentation and Institutional Practice: a Critical Approach -- 1.5 Outline and Summary -- Chapter 2 Detachment and Convergence: the History of Child Rights and Drug Control in International Law -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Children and Early Multilateral Drug Controls -- 2.3 The Bedrock of the System -- 2.4 Upheaval in the 1960s -- 2.5 The 1971 Convention -- 2.6 'An Especially Serious Threat to the Youth of the World': a Change in Tone and the 1972 Protocol -- 2.6.1 'Root Causes' Rejected -- 2.6.2 Incitement Returns -- 2.7 'A Danger of Incalculable Gravity': the 1988 Convention -- 2.7.1 The Preamble -- 2.7.2 Children as Aggravating Circumstances -- 2.7.3 Criminalisation of Incitement Accepted -- 2.8 A Human Right: Drugs and the Convention on the Rights of the Child -- 2.8.1 The Convention on the Rights of the Child -- 2.8.2 Drafting Article 33 -- 2.8.3 Article 33 and the 1988 Convention -- 2.8.4 To the Present: the CRC and Reform -- 2.9 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Fragmentation: the Treaty Framework -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The UN Drug Conventions -- 3.2.1 Overview -- 3.2.2 The Principle of 'Balance' -- 3.2.3 Scheduling -- 3.2.4 Forms of Control -- 3.2.5 Provisions Relating to Children -- 3.2.6 Administrative and Monitoring Mechanisms -- 3.3 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child -- 3.3.1 Overview -- 3.3.2 Article 33 and Other Rights Relating to Drug Policy -- 3.3.2.1 Characteristics of Article 33 -- 3.3.2.2 Other Relevant Rights -- 3.3.3 Monitoring Mechanism -- 3.4 The Treaties as Frames of Reference: Complementarity or Conflict? -- 3.4.1 Alternative Frames.

3.4.2 Human Rights versus Commodity Control -- 3.4.3 The Position of the Individual -- 3.4.4 Object and Purpose -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Contention: the Politics of Article 33 -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Human Rights and Drug Control 'Positions' -- 4.3 Thematic Points of Disagreement -- 4.3.1 Risk Assessment and Problem Representation -- 4.3.2 Conflict and Coherence: the Requirements of the Drug Conventions and Human Rights Law -- 4.3.3 Normative Hierarchy -- 4.4 Article 33 and Its Relationship to the Drug Conventions -- 4.4.1 Conflict and Coherence -- 4.4.2 The Idea of Protection: Child Rights and the Rights of Others -- 4.4.3 Approach to the Text: Opposing Stresses -- 4.5 Resolution through the VCLT and Conflict Rules? -- 4.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The Committee on the Rights of the Child: Content, Balance and Normative Framing of Concluding Observations -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Data Collection -- 5.3 Is a 'Dialogue' Taking Place? -- 5.4 The Content and Balance of Concluding Observations -- 5.4.1 Drug Use, Data Collection and Prevention -- 5.4.2 Non-criminalisation -- 5.4.3 Treatment and Harm Reduction -- 5.4.4 Resources and Budgeting -- 5.4.5 Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Licit Substances -- 5.4.6 Neglected Areas -- 5.4.6.1 Access to Essential Controlled Medicines -- 5.4.6.2 Supply Side Issues -- 5.4.6.3 The Effects of State Efforts for the Implementation of Article 33 -- 5.5 Normative Framing -- 5.5.1 Relationship to Other CRC Provisions -- 5.5.2 Standard Formulations -- 5.5.3 Reference to the Drug Control System: Assuming Complementarities? -- 5.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Drug Laws, Policies and Interventions: Monitoring 'Appropriate Measures'? -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 'Appropriate Measures' -- 6.3 Drug Laws and Policies -- 6.3.1 'Appropriate' Legislative Measures -- 6.3.1.1 Severity of Response as Child Protection.

6.3.2 Challenging Drug Laws -- 6.3.3 Welcoming Drug Laws and Strategies -- 6.4 Response to Specific Information Raising Human Rights Concerns -- 6.4.1 The Death Penalty -- 6.4.2 Drug User Registries -- 6.4.3 Compulsory Drug Treatment -- 6.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Dynamics of Structural Bias -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Committee's 'Preferences' -- 7.2.1 'Selective Reticence' -- 7.2.2 Rights of the Child versus the Rights of Adults -- 7.2.2.1 Victims versus Perpetrators -- 7.2.2.2 Children versus Adults -- 7.2.3 Under Interpretation -- 7.2.3.1 Standard Language and Holistic Interpretation -- 7.3 Practical Considerations -- 7.3.1 The Influence of Reporting Guidelines -- 7.3.2 Workload and Resource Constraints -- 7.3.3 Expertise and Institutional Memory -- 7.3.4 'Visibility Bias' -- 7.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Conclusion -- 8.1 The Content of Article 33 and the Relationship between the Regimes -- 8.2 What Kind of Norm Is Article 33? -- Annex 1 Content and Structure of the Drug Conventions -- Annex 2 Content and Structure of the CRC -- Bibliography -- Index.

In Child Rights and Drug Control on International Law, Damon Barrett explores the meaning of the child's right to protection from drugs under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the relationship between this right and the UN drug control conventions.

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