Access to Justice for Children

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Gerison Lansdown, Every Child’s Right to Be Heard- A Resource Guide on the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child General Comment 12, Unicef and Save the Children (2011)

Available at http://www.unicef.org/adolescence/files/Every_Childs_Right_to_be_Heard.pdf (last accessed 25 February 2015).

This report explores the right to participation and the right to be heard as explained in General Comment 12 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child. It includes examples of good practice. The report also connects Article 12 of the CRC to other human rights instruments. see also http://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Right-to-Participation.pdf