Present Imperfect Episode 1: Professor Ann Skelton on The Committee on the Rights of the Child
UNICEF Innocenti presents Present Imperfect, a podcast series exploring the evolution of child rights over the past three decades - and the decades to come, 35 years after the approval of the Convention on the Rights of the Child or CRC by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989. In this episode, Ann Skelton, Professor of Law at Leiden University and Chair of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, discusses results and main challenges for the treaty body in turning child rights principles into action and results for children. Professor Skelton takes us through a fascinating journey into systemic constraints and bold actions of the CRC monitoring body and discusses interesting cases on a range of subjects, including on the implementation of the Third Optional Protocol ratified by 50 states. Listen to Ann Skelton about state party compliance with the Convention on the rights of the child, good practices, General comment number 26 on child rights and the environment, General Comment number 5 on implementation measures, legislation, law reform, child rights policies impact assessments, Sustainable Development Goals, child rights in war torn countries, the role of UNICEF and other UN agencies, the role of the civil society... and much more.