ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores whether and how children's human rights law and other branches of international human rights law can inspire and enrich one another. It studies the interplay between children's rights law and human rights law in the context of specific topics: intra-family relations, LGBTI marginalisation, undocumented migration, the media, the right to a healthy environment and human rights obligations of business. The book also looks into other categorical human rights regimes – women's rights, rights of persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples' rights and rights of older persons, in order to examine how these regimes may inspire the human rights of children. Focusing on the family sphere, the book examines how much credit the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) give to each other in this sphere.
