Fikfak, Veronika; Lott, Naomi; (2024) Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child for General Comment No. 27 on Children's Rights to Access to Justice and Effective Remedies: Barriers to International Climate Justice for Children. [Digital scholarly resource]. https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/general-comment...

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The focus of the Committee in this call for contributions is on clarifying which actions States should take in order to implement the right of all children to access justice and effective remedies. Yet, access to international justice - including to the Committee on the Rights of the Child - by human rights victims is not equal. In this submission, we show how access to international human rights bodies, which are intended to provide a remedy to individuals unable to secure justice domestically, is limited by similar socio-economic and geographical barriers as at domestic level. In particular, we show how children are affected by these barriers and how seemingly neutral rules of admissibility impact their access to justice. This raises questions about equal access to human rights justice under international law. In our submission, we draw on our own expertise in human rights and childrens’ rights and use literature on access to international human rights bodies.

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