A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Optional Protocol 2: On the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography - Softcover

Witting, Sabine Katharina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9004464506 ISBN 13: 9789004464506

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff, 2022

Synopsis

In this commentary, Sabine Witting provides a comprehensive analysis of the Second Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. This commentary critically reflects on the impact of globalisation, digital technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic on the nature, scope and meaning of the Second Optional Protocol since its adoption on 25 May 2000. Apart from analysing a broad range of topics, from online child sexual abuse to surrogacy and ‘voluntourism’, this commentary highlights the importance of establishing child-friendly transnational collaboration mechanisms, conceptualised through a holistic gender lens and taking into consideration the online-offline nexus of violence against children and relevant Global North-Global South dynamics.

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About the Author

Sabine K. Witting, (Ph.D., Leiden University) is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University, Center for Law and Digital Technologies (eLaw). Her research and teaching focuses on balancing the child’s right to protection from sexual abuse and exploitation with the right to privacy and the rule of law in the digital space. Her dissertation entitled 'Child Sexual Abuse in the Digital Era - Rethinking Legal Frameworks and Transnational Law Enforcement Collaboration’ was published in 2020.

Edition details

• Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004464506
• ISBN 13: 9789004464506
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144