Prof. Aoife Nolan on the third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child for ESCR-Net

Professor Aoife Nolan has given an interview to ESCR-Net to mark the third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (OP3-CRC) which came in to force on 14th April 2014. The interview is the first of a series with Prof. Nolan to be featured on ESCR-Net this week discussing OP3-CRC.

"While children have always been covered by, and could bring complaints under, the human rights complaints procedures in relation to other core international human rights treaties, they now have their own group-specific mechanism. The coming into force of OP-ICESCR made clear that ESCR were of equal status to civil and political rights and were justiciable at the international level. The OP3-CRC does the same for children’s rights."

You can read the full interview on the ESCR-Net website