This module is a resource for lecturers

Core reading

This section provides a list of (mostly) open access materials that the lecturer could ask the students to read before taking a class based on this Module.

• Freeman, Michael (2007). Article 3: The Best Interests of the Child. In Alen et al (eds). A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Martinus Nijhoff
• Gallagher, Anne T and Fiona David (2014). The International Law of Migrant Smuggling. Cambridge University Press (especially pp. 569-573)
• Gallagher, Anne T (2010). The International Law of Human Trafficking. Cambridge University Press (especially pp. 323-336)
• Schloenhardt, Andreas and Joseph Lelliott (2018). Migrant Children and the United Nations Protocols against Smuggling of Migrants and Trafficking in Persons. In Crock, Mary and Benson, Lenni (eds). Protecting Migrant Children: In Search of Best Practice. Elgar
• UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (2017). Joint General Comment No 3 on the General Principles Regarding the Human Rights of Children in the Context of International Migration . UN Doc CMW/C/GC/3-CRC/C/GC/22
• UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (2005). General Comment No 6: Treatment of Unaccompanied and Separated Children Outside Their Country of Origin . UN Doc CRC/GC/2005/6
• UNICEF (2017). A Child is a Child: Protecting Children on the Move from Violence, Abuse, and Exploitation. New York: UN

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