The Vance Center and partner firm Clifford Chance, with a team led by Janet Whittaker in Washington, DC and Counsel Elliot Luke in Perth, Australia, provided crucial advice and legal support in the development of General Comment 26, published on August 22. The Committee on the Rights of the Child, supported by Vance Center client Terre des Hommes, relied on a wide range of such input while developing the general comment. The Committee received more than 170 written submissions from States, United Nations entities, national human rights institutions, civil society and children’s organizations, held consultations in Asia and South America,... read more