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Book Review: A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child , edited by S. Wheatley Sacino, ‘Article 17: Access to a Diversity of Mass Media Sources’, in A. Alen, J. Vande Lanotte, E. Verhellen, F. Ang, E. Berghmans, M. Verheyde and B. Abramson

Book Review: A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child , edited by... (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden/Boston, 2012) €73,00. $100.00. Article 17 of the un Convention on the Rights of the Child compels States to work with other actors – in particular the media – to guarantee children’s access to information from a range of sources. This information should include material which benefits children’s wellbeing. It sets out five additional obligations which States must fulfil to achieve this. Article 17 is a neglected right: few States report on what they are doing to fulfil it, except to indicate how they are protecting children from what they deem to be harmful information. Similarly, children’s rights advocacy and even the recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of Child tend to focus on the protective aspect of this article (a provision ‘to encourage the development of guidelines to protect children from information and material injurious to his or her wellbeing…’). An analysis which clarifies the meaning of and provokes debate around this article is therefore long overdue. In particular, as the author points out, given the ever-expanding means of communicating information, the article’s provisions – which are unique among international human rights treaties – could become an influential legal mechanism for shaping the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The International Journal of Children's Rights Brill

Book Review: A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child , edited by S. Wheatley Sacino, ‘Article 17: Access to a Diversity of Mass Media Sources’, in A. Alen, J. Vande Lanotte, E. Verhellen, F. Ang, E. Berghmans, M. Verheyde and B. Abramson

The International Journal of Children's Rights , Volume 22 (4): 808 – Dec 1, 2014

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Brill
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© 2014 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
Subject
Book Reviews
ISSN
0927-5568
eISSN
1571-8182
DOI
10.1163/15718182-55680141
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(Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden/Boston, 2012) €73,00. $100.00. Article 17 of the un Convention on the Rights of the Child compels States to work with other actors – in particular the media – to guarantee children’s access to information from a range of sources. This information should include material which benefits children’s wellbeing. It sets out five additional obligations which States must fulfil to achieve this. Article 17 is a neglected right: few States report on what they are doing to fulfil it, except to indicate how they are protecting children from what they deem to be harmful information. Similarly, children’s rights advocacy and even the recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of Child tend to focus on the protective aspect of this article (a provision ‘to encourage the development of guidelines to protect children from information and material injurious to his or her wellbeing…’). An analysis which clarifies the meaning of and provokes debate around this article is therefore long overdue. In particular, as the author points out, given the ever-expanding means of communicating information, the article’s provisions – which are unique among international human rights treaties – could become an influential legal mechanism for shaping the

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Published: Dec 1, 2014

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