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Accounting for Haiti’s Children After the Earthquake: Immediate Needs with Lifelong Consequences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Jonathan Todres
Jonathan Todres*
Affiliation:
Georgia State University College of Law
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Haiti: International Law and Disaster
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 104 , 2010 , pp. 122 - 125
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2010

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References

1 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Nov. 20, 1989, 1577 UNTS 3.

2 Other relevant child rights treaties include the Optional Protocol to the CRC on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography; the ILO Convention (No. 182) Concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor; and the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter-Country Adoption.

3 Not only is the CRC the best template, Haiti ratified the CRC in 1995. It also ratified the Ilo Convention No. 182 but not the Hague Convention on Inter-Country Adoption or the Optional Protocol to the CRC on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography.

4 CRC, Art. 4.

5 See Narula, Smita, The Right to Food: Holding Global Actors Accountable Under International Law, 44 Colum. J. Transnat’l L. 691, 725 (2006)Google Scholar; Todres, Jonathan, Rights Relationships and the Experience of Children Orphaned by AIDS, 41 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 417 (2007)Google Scholar.

6 Mike Dottridge, UNICEF, Young People’s Voices on Child Trafficking: Experiences from South Eastern Europe 13 (UNICEF Innocenti Working Paper No. IWP-2008-05 2008).

7 Id. at 16-17.