While almost every state in the world has ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), there is less consensus around the manner in which the rights protected by the CRC should be protected in national constitutions. To say that a constitution makes provision for children’s rights is just a starting point: the extent to which a national constitution takes a genuine child rights approach will depend on the quality of the constitutional provisions in question. This paper aims to provide a typology which can be used to assess whether the approach taken by any given constitution to the protection of children’s rights is in line with the child rights approach envisaged by CRC by analysing individual constitutions along three separate spectrums. The Visibility spectrum measures how visible children are in a constitutional scheme; the Agency spectrum measures the extent to which children are considered to be independent, autonomous rights holders, while the Enforceability spectrum measures the extent to which children’s constitutional rights can be enforced.

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儿童权利的宪法保护：可见性、代理性和可执行性

尽管世界上几乎每个国家都批准了《联合国儿童权利公约》（CRC），但关于如何在国家宪法中保护受 CRC 保护的权利的共识较少。说一部宪法规定了儿童权利只是一个起点：国家宪法在多大程度上采用真正的儿童权利方法将取决于相关宪法规定的质量。本文旨在提供一种类型学，通过分析三个不同范围的个别宪法，可用于评估任何特定宪法所采取的保护儿童权利的方法是否符合 CRC 设想的儿童权利方法。可见度范围衡量儿童在宪法方案中的可见度；