Effectiveness of the Protection of Children's Rights in International Criminal Law

Abstract

This article aims to study the effectiveness of criminal protection of children at the level of international law, by focusing on the most serious threats to children that have been confirmed by the reports of organizations working in this area, which was credited with the intervention of international law to criminalize them and to establish mechanisms to deal with them. It turns out the growing international interest in the rights of children and the texts of conventions and mechanisms have succeeded in reducing or minimizing such threats and violations, especially those related to child labor. However, there are still risks and crimes that threaten children, such as child recruitment into the armed forces, war crimes and crimes against humanity, especially child pornography, which requires the need to review some provisions on child protection to raise the contradiction between them, with more activation and more accurate coordination between some mechanisms.