Children are human beings with rights and dignity. Children’s rights are human rights.
Because of their fragilty and vulnerabilty, children also ned specifc protection, which
means providing them with an environment in which they...
L'enfant est un être humain avec des droits et une dignité. Les droits des enfants sont des droits humains. En raison de leur fragilité et vulnérabilité, les enfants doivent par ailleurs faire l'objet d'...
This directory, assembled by the researchers at CRIN, provides a mapping of legal clinics with a specific focus on children’s rights clinics that exist in the European Union. It is meant to, on the one hand, serve as a guideline for children...
What is immediately obvious from reviewing the justice systems of the European Union (EU), is that life imprisonment of children is now restricted to a small number of States, but that a substantial number of children are affected by such sentences...
This report is part of CRIN's access to justice for children project, looking at the status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in national law, the status of children involved in legal proceedings, the legal means to challenge...
Summary: This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the Concluding Observations of all UN Treaty Bodies and their follow-up procedures. This does not include the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the...
Summary: This report summarises the status of children's rights in Austria vis-a-vis European human rights mechanisms.Search CRIN's ratifications table to find regional instruments to which Austria is a party.
European Court of Human Rights
Austria...
Summary: Information about institutions in Austria that monitor children's rights.Children's Ombudsperson
A Federal Children's Ombudsperson was established under the Federal Youth Welfare Act of 1989 and between 1989 and 1995, Ombudspersons for...
Summary: General overview of Austria's national legal provisions on children's rights, including guidance on how to conduct further research.National laws on children's rights
Status of the CRC in national lawArticle 9(1) of the Austrian...
Summary: The violations highlighted are those issues raised with the State by more than one international mechanism. This is done with the intention of identifying children's rights which have been repeatedly violated, as well as gaps in the issues...
