eprintid: 119
rev_number: 10
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creators_name: Broughton, Fiona
title: Overstepping the Mark? The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s Recommendations to Decriminalise Abortion in Ireland and the Meaning of ‘Child’ within the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
ispublished: pub
subjects: K1
divisions: fac_law
full_text_status: none
keywords: Convention on the Rights of the Child; abortion; unborn child; Committee on the Rights of the Child; international law; pre-natal child; children’s rights
note: Full text available to buy through publisher website.
abstract: This article examines the position of the UN Convention on the Right of the Child with regard to pre-natal children in light of the 2016 Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child. These Observations of the Committee recommend that Ireland, as well as and other State parties to the Convention, decriminalise abortion in all circumstances. The article analyses the possible remit of the Convention to apply to pre-natal children and concludes that the Committee deviates from the Convention’s ethos of inclusive human rights and is overstepping the mark in imposing its abortion belief system on States parties to the Convention.
date: 2016
date_type: published
publication: The International Journal of Children's Rights
volume: 24
number: 4
publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
pagerange: 687-717
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0927-5568
official_url: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15718182-02404002
related_url_url: http://www.brill.com/international-journal-childrens-rights
citation:   Broughton, Fiona  (2016) Overstepping the Mark? The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s Recommendations to Decriminalise Abortion in Ireland and the Meaning of ‘Child’ within the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.  The International Journal of Children's Rights, 24 (4).  pp. 687-717.  ISSN 0927-5568