“At a time when European welfare states deal with competing demands of state sovereignty, family autonomy and universal children’s rights, the book offers an incisive exploration of how international law intersects with domestic child protection practice. The focus is on Norway’s paradoxical position consistently ranked among the world’s leaders in child well-being, yet facing more European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) child protection violations than any other country.”
This writes Ana-Maria Crivat and Hongli Wang from Xi’an Jiaotong University in China in their book review of Child Protection and the European Court of Human Rights: Lessons from Norway in the Development and Contestation of Children’s Rights, edited by Hege Stein Helland, Marit Skivenes, and Siri Gloppen. (An open-access digital version of the book is available here,)
It concludes that “The book offers new understandings of how human rights law can both empower and constrain, protect and marginalize and is essential reading for anyone committed to advancing children’s rights in an increasingly interconnected world.”
The book review, published in the journal Child Abuse Review can be accessed here.
If you wish to buy the paperback version of the book you can do so here.