ABSTRACT
Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) states that, "No one shall be subjected to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment". The Convention on the Rights of the Child of Part II and International Human Rights System stated that there, "is concerned with protecting children from injury and providing disabled children adequate protection". Article 39 emphasises the appropriate measures that States should take to promote physical and psychological recovery as well as provision for social reintegration of a child who has been neglected, subjected to exploitation, torture or abuse. The UK Government has a reservation on Article 22 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), which it argues is necessary in the interests of effective immigration control, but the Government also states that the reservation does not prevent the UK from having regard to the Convention in its care and treatment of children.
