My emphasis here is on selected elements of the GC dealing with rights and obligations. Others will be better-placed to speak on the wide-ranging language and actions outlined by ! mitigation and loss and damage (in language which one commentator has asserted is the clearest and strongest yet in IHRL terms). For the same reason I will not address the detailed treatment of business in the General Comment.

My focus is on those elements

The GC that are of particular significance in terms of the evolution of international child rights law and IHRL generally. While the GC is generally recognised as fundamentally important from a child rights perspective! less appreciated has been how its contents have IHRL implications that go well beyond that context.

The most significant contribution made by the GC with regard to IHRL is the Committee’s express recognition of the autonomous right to a clean! healthy and sustainable environment as protected by the CRC. According to job function email database the Committee! that right is “implicit in the Convention and directly linked to! in particular! the rights to life! survival and development! under article 6! to the highest attainable standard of health! including taking into consideration the dangers and risks of environmental pollution! under article 24! to an adequate standard of living! under article 27! and to education! under article 28! including the development of respect for the natural environment! under article 29”.

The decision to include the right

The GC was not inevitable or uncontroversial and the question maximizing crm automation without compromising personal connections whether the Committee should do so was the subject of discussion at different points during the GC process.

The Committee’s approach aligns with and directly The Committee china numbers in terms contributes to the increasing recognition of this right at the international level by! amongst others! the UN General Assembly and Human Rights Council! as well as by regional human rights bodies. While of course the General Comment is only soft law in nature! it is an authoritative source of non-binding norms that interpret and add detail to the rights and obligations under the CRC.