FNs arbete mot användandet av barnsoldater Om hur barnkonventionen och R2P kan förenas
(2014) STVK02 20141Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- This is a problematization of UN’s work on preventing child soldiers and also an analysis of the consistency between the Convention on the Right of the Child and Responsibility to Protect (R2P). I have chosen to examine the Convention on the Right of the Child because it expresses the human rights of a child, and R2P because it phrases UN’s opportunity to protect human rights in a state where those rights are being deprived. My aim for this essay has been to investigate how these documents correlate in protecting children of being used as soldiers. I discuss the responsibilities and obligations of the world society to protect children. Based on this analysis of the Convention on the Right of the Child and R2P, I argue that the ratification... (More)
- This is a problematization of UN’s work on preventing child soldiers and also an analysis of the consistency between the Convention on the Right of the Child and Responsibility to Protect (R2P). I have chosen to examine the Convention on the Right of the Child because it expresses the human rights of a child, and R2P because it phrases UN’s opportunity to protect human rights in a state where those rights are being deprived. My aim for this essay has been to investigate how these documents correlate in protecting children of being used as soldiers. I discuss the responsibilities and obligations of the world society to protect children. Based on this analysis of the Convention on the Right of the Child and R2P, I argue that the ratification of the Convention on the Right of the Child can motivate an implementation of R2P to restrain the use of child soldiers. (Less)
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- author
- Ågren, Frida LU
- supervisor
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- Martin Hall LU
- organization
- course
- STVK02 20141
- year
- 2014
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Child soldiers, Responsibility to protect, Convention on the Right of the Child, Human rights, UN
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 4448029
- date added to LUP
- 2014-09-17 13:30:16
- date last changed
- 2014-09-17 13:30:16
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