Roles of Independent Children’s Rights Institutions in Advancing Human Rights of Children

Agnes Lux worked in the Hungarian Office of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights (Ombudsman) as deputy head of department. She is an International Visitor Leadership Program alumna, selected to participate in the program of the U.S. State Department ("Children in the U.S. Justice"). Lux worked as child rights education and advocacy director of the UNICEF Hungary. Currently she is a research fellow at the Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary.Brian Gran is a professor on the faculty of Case Western Reserve University and Jefferson Science Fellow of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He is the author of The Sociology of Children’s Rights. Gran’s scholarship concentrates on human rights, law, and social policy.

• Preface; Maria HerczogIntroduction: Agnes Lux and Brian Gran Section 1. Children’s Ombudsperson’s Perspectives of their Work and its Impacts Chapter 1. ‘Be Bold, Be Brave, Speak Out’: The Role of the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland (CYPCS) during the Pandemic; Bruce Adamson and Gina Wilson Chapter 2. The Job of a Lifetime: Looking back on my years as a Children’s Rights Commissioner (1998 - 2009); Ankie Vandekerckhove Section 2. Children’s Ombudspersons Working in Europe Chapter 3. Ireland’s Ombudsman for Children - Combining Power and Influence to Advance Children’s Rights; Ursula Kilkelly and Emily LoganChapter 4. How to Research Independent Children’s Rights Institutions: Lessons Learned from the Evaluation of the Dutch Children’s Ombudsman; Katrien Klep, Stephanie Rap, and Valérie Pattyn Chapter 5. Analysis of the Performance of the Hungarian Ombudsman Related to Children’s Rights Through the Lens of the UN CRC’s Four Guiding Principles; Agnes Lux Chapter 6. The Role of the NHRI in Germany; Rita Richter Nunes Section 3. Children’s Ombudspersons in Pakistan and the United States Chapter 7. Why the United States needs A National Children’s Rights Ombudsperson; Brian Gran Chapter 8. The Founding Law of Pakistan’s National Commission on The Rights of The Child: Legal Challenges, Bureaucratic Barriers and Vague Opportunities; Abdullah Khoso and Umbreen Kousar Section 4. ICRIs ’Engagement in the UNCRC Monitoring Mechanisms and Questions of Independence Chapter 9. International Monitoring of The United Nations Convention on The Rights of the Child: Assessing the Engagement of the Independent Children’s Rights Institutions; Zsuzsanna Rutai Chapter 10. The European Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC): Key Influences on Children’s Rights Promotion; Robin Shura and Brian Gran Section 5. Conclusions Chapter 11. Conclusions: A Big Picture of Independent Children’s Rights Institutions’; Agnes Lux and Brian Gran