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Summary: This Innocenti Study analyses in depth
one of the `umbrella provisions' of the
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Article 3, which states that in "all
actions concerning children" the "best
interests of the child shall be a
primary consideration"...This Innocenti Study analyses in depth one of the `umbrella
provisions' of the Convention on the Rights of the Child Article 3,
which states that in "all actions concerning children" the "best
interests of the child shall be a primary consideration". Based on
the book entitled The Best Interests of the Child: Reconciling
Culture and Human Rights, edited by Philip Alston and published in
1994 by Oxford University Press, it examines both legal-conceptual
dimensions and practical applications of the principle in different
cultural contexts. It discusses ways in which the principle can
support a culturally sensitive interpretation of children's rights,
while warning that, taken to an extreme, a `cultural relativist'
approach to the principle can pose a serious threat to the
international norms set out in the Convention.
Owner: Philip Alston and Bridget Gilmour-Walsh