Artículos

Autor

Aoife Nolan

Resumen:

La autora analiza las deficiencias del enfoque que adopta el Comité de los Derechos del Niño en relación con los estándares de derechos económicos, sociales y culturales (DESC) consagrados en la Convención de los Derechos del Niño (especialmente en el artículo 4). Se refiere, en particular, a la omisión de relacionar de manera relevante las decisiones presupuestarias específicas de los Estados con sus obligaciones relativas a DESC, para evaluar su grado de cumplimiento mediante un análisis presupuestario basado en los derechos de los niños.

Abstract: “Recent years have seen an explosion in methodologies for monitoring children’s economic and social rights (ESR). Key examples include the development of indicators, benchmarks, child rights-based budget analysis and child rights impact assessments. The Committee on the Right of the Child has praised such tools in its work and has actively promoted their usage. Troublingly, however, there are serious shortcomings in the Committee’s approach to the ESR standards enshrined in the CRC, which threaten to impact upon the efficacy of such methodologies. This article argues that the Committee has failed to engage with the substantive obligations imposed by Article 4 and many of the specific ESR guaranteed in the UN Convention on the (CRC) in sufficient depth. As a result, that body has not succeeded in outlining a coherent, comprehensive child rights-specific ESR framework. Using the example of child rights-based budget analysis, the author claims that this omission constitutes a significant obstacle to those seeking to evaluate the extent to which states have met their ESRrelated obligations under the CRC. The article thus brings together and addresses key issues that have so far received only very limited critical academic attention, namely, children’s ESR under the CRC, the relationship between budgetary decision-making and the CRC, and child rights-based budget analysis”.