Why should States undertake children’s rights legislative reform?
Incorporation of the CRC in national legislation is the most traditional approach to implement the convention. There are many benefits to the legal incorporation of the CRC.
It is an international legal obligation under the CRC, in particular article 4.
It promotes the full scope of children’s rights.
It provides an opportunity to incorporate relevant UN and regional resolutions and recommendations, and the recommendations of the CRC Committee and similar international bodies.
It promotes justiciability of children’s rights, making them real and enforceable, while providing effective remedies for rights violations.
It makes children’s rights more visible at the national level.
It can be used as an opportunity to expand a State Party's commitments to children’s rights (also in light of art. 41 CRC), by revisiting any reservations and declarations to the CRC and promoting the ratification of other international human rights instruments.
