Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chapter I. Protecting the Right to Life of At-risk Children: the Street Children Case -- Chapter II. Children as True Legal Persons -- Chapter III. The First International Law Cases Concerning the Protection of Children in Times of War in the World -- Chapter IV. The Right to Nationality and to Equal Protection: Th E Yean and Bosico Children Case -- Chapter V. Consolidating Principles on the Protectionof Children in Internal Armed Conflicts: the Case of the Massacre of Mapiripán and the Case of the Massacres of Ituango vs. Colombia -- Chapter VI. The Protection of Children of Indigenous Peoples: the Case of the Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous Community volume Paraguay -- Chapter VII. The Meaning of the Superior Interest of the Child in Post Conflict Societies: Servellón García and Others vs Honduras -- Chapter VIII. Child Soldiers in Paraguay: the Case of Vargas Areco -- Chapter IX. The Pending Task of Construing the Meaning of the Rights of the Family in the Jurisprudence of the Court -- Chapter X. Reparation in Cases of Violations of Human Rights of Children -- Chapter XI. Upcoming Contentious Cases on Childrens Rights in the System -- Concluding Remarks -- Annexes Instruments -- Other Documents and Materials -- Index.

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This is the first comprehensive treatment of the topic of the Rights of the Child as reflected in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It reviews all decisions of the Inter-American Court relating to the Rights of the Child and analyses the principles held therein making them available to practitioners, academics and students of this area of the law.