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Thinking Gender, History & International Law Seminar: Decolonising Childrens Rights and International Criminal Law: Human Rights between Security and Empowerment
This session interrogates whether and how racism and patriarchy have permeated the international child rights and child protection field. Taking its cue from the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCR), the session tackles the history of power dynamics and colonial legacy upon which views of children are formed, disrupting the success story often told about the UNCR. Either due to its intrinsic failures or extrinsic legacies, the session tackles the epistemologies of children’s rights and the overall legal architecture of children’s protection, which positions international (often criminal) justice as the saviour of ‘innocent victims’ while erasing more complex and structural causes of international crimes.
Speakers: Mark Drumbl, Natalia Krestovska, Aisel Omarova
Chair: Paola Zichi