ABSTRACT
This chapter points to a number of approaches and initiatives that could usefully be reviewed and remedied in order to optimise work to implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). It focuses on what may be seen as problem areas in the way the human rights of children have been taken forward. The chapter reviews the combination of the various factors which has marginalised a growing number of child-focused from the human rights mainstream and, consequently, children's rights from human rights. The drafting of the CRC marked the first time that a child-specific international instrument was developed from start to finish under the auspices of a human rights body the then UN Commission on Human Rights. The chapter looks at some of the ways in which many advocates are still at variance with the human rights community in the messages that they put over and how they choose to work.
