Moving toward Human Rights Principles for Intercountry Adoption
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
Publication Information
39 The North Carolina Journal of International & Commercial Regulation 523 (2014)
Abstract
This article articulates rights in existing intercountry adoption conventions as the touchstone for fleshing out substantive human rights expectations in international conventions, centered on the concept of human dignity. It discusses a cluster of meanings that grow out of our recognition of human dignity which are foundational to a just and workable adoption regime across national lines: the realism principle; the global interdependence principle; the family diversity principle; and the vulnerability principle.
The four core principles of the Convention of the Rights of the Child - non-discrimination; devotion to the best interests of the child; the right to life, survival and development, and respect for the views of the child - can be re-anchored to the concept of human dignity to inform these concerns about the value and limitations of intercountry adoption.
Repository Citation
Failinger, Marie, "Moving toward Human Rights Principles for Intercountry Adoption" (2014). Faculty Scholarship. 535.
https://open.mitchellhamline.edu/facsch/535