The Execution Department issued today a new thematic factsheet focusing on the execution of ECHR judgments concerning the rights of the child. The European Court has underlined the children’s need for special protection due to their vulnerability. Thus, every child has the right to measures of protection on the part of his or her family, society and the State. This has resulted in States’ positive obligations vis-à-vis children so that any measures taken should never harm the children’s health and development.
The present factsheet sets out a number of examples of general and, where possible, individual measures adopted and reported by States, in the context of the execution of the European Court’s judgments, in order to safeguard and protect children’s rights, notably: their right to freedom from ill-treatment and servitude, their right to liberty and security, access to a court, family life, return proceedings in abduction cases and freedom from discrimination in family law, inheritance matters and education.
