Children's Health, Violence, and the Law: International Issues

Also available online in Hein.
Physical copies available at Law Library at Call No. K9 .N7772

Children’s Rights examines sixteen nations, across five continents. For each nation, the study focuses on the domestic laws and policies that affect child health and social welfare, education and special needs, child labor and exploitation, sale and trafficking of children, and juvenile justice. Children’s Rights also lists which pertinent international treaties the nation has ratified and implemented.

June 2004 report by the Law Library of Congress on the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction. It analyzes the applicable law and institutional framework of fifty-one jurisdictions and the European Union. Some of the laws address violence to the abducted child.

May 2015 publication by the Law Library of Congress on provisions on child abduction in non-Hague countries.

This Sept. 25, 2015 article in The Economist highlights the intersections of children, migration, and violence in Central America.

Canadian newspaper National Post published this article on Jan. 7, 2016.

BBC News article, January 8, 2016, describing how "a mother who tried to abduct her two children to live in Syria under control of the so-called Islamic State has been jailed for five years and four months."

BBC Trending article, January 25, 2016, about the rise in the use of social media to combat the high numbers of child abductions in China. Highlights the debate about the severity of punishment for those found guilty of human trafficking. Current Chinese law metes out approximately ten years in prison, although some argue that the death penalty is more appropriate.