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âNo Party Hat, No Partyâ: Successful Condom Use in Sex Work in Mexico and the Dominican Republic
Children's Rights and the Environment
This chapter offers critical analysis on the normative basis for articulating childrenâs environment-related rights as well as the key pathways to expanding the core content and scope for such rights. Recognizing that a healthy environment is a prerequisite to the enjoyment of all rights, it is crucial to focus attention on the environmental dimensions of childrenâs rights so that the role that childrenâs rights frameworks can play in managing environmental quality is strengthened. The Convention on the Rights of the Child offers an excellent normative basis for reinforcing our understanding and approaches to childrenâs environment-related rights because it already contains provisions that make explicit reference to the environment and many others that have strong environmental dimensions. Beyond these normative prescriptions, it is critical to engage with the Conventionâs monitoring and enforcement mechanisms, particularly those presided over by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, with a view towards achieving a more systematic and coherent treatment of the environmental dimensions of certain childrenâs rights. Such an approach, it is argued, will likely result in better articulation of the relationship between childrenâs rights and the environment and could form the basis for the definition of a childrenâs right to a healthy environment at international law