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This volume constitutes a commentary on Article 32 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It is part of the series,
A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which provides an article by article analysis of all substantive, organizational and procedural provisions of the CRC and its two Optional Protocols. For every article, a comparison with related human rights provisions is made, followed by an in-depth exploration of the nature and scope of State obligations deriving from that article. The series constitutes an essential tool for actors in the field of children's rights, including academics, students, judges, grassroots workers, governmental, non- governmental and international officers. The series is sponsored by the
Belgian Federal Science Policy Office.
About the author
Lee Swepston is the Former Senior Advisor on Human Rights of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), and is now a teacher (University of Lund, Sweden and Raoul Wallenberg Institute, inter alia) and consultant. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and took his Juris doctor degree at Columbia University in New York. He joined the ILO in 1973, where his posts included being Regional Adviser on International Labour Standards in Africa, Chief of the Equality and Employment Branch, and Director of the Department of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. He has written numerous books and articles on various aspects of human rights and international labour law, child labour, freedom of association, discrimination, HIV and AIDS, migrant workers and indigenous and tribal peoples.
