These reservations might have helped the United Kingdom from making unfavorable new amendments in its immigration laws and ensures respect to national laws despite being unfair to refugee children. There is no doubt that a narrow view towards the rights of children from perspective of national interest challenges international humanitarian laws and norms. The discrimination of children from ownership of certain rights based on some selected grounds is against the international human rights norms (Hammarberg, 1995; International, 1998; CRC, 1989; Fottrell, 2001). Moreover, article 19 of Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) vividly outlines that states can reserve while signing a treaty except
These reservations might have helped the United Kingdom from making unfavorable new amendments in its immigration laws and ensures respect to national laws despite being unfair to refugee children. There is no doubt that a narrow view towards the rights of children from perspective of national interest challenges international humanitarian laws and norms. The discrimination of children from ownership of certain rights based on some selected grounds is against the international human rights norms (Hammarberg, 1995; International, 1998; CRC, 1989; Fottrell, 2001). Moreover, article 19 of Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) vividly outlines that states can reserve while signing a treaty except