This is the first comprehensive treatment of the topic of the Rights of the Child as reflected in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It reviews all decisions of the Inter-American Court relating to the Rights of the Child and analyses the principles held therein making them available to practitioners, academics and students of this area of the law.

Acknowledgements; Table of Treaties and Other International Instruments; Table of Cases; Foreword; Introduction; I. Protecting the Right to Life of At-risk Children: The Street Children case; II. Children as True Legal Persons; III. The First International Law cases concerning the protection of children in times of war in the world; IV. The Right to Nationality and to Equal Protection: The Yean and Bosico Children case; V. Consolidating Principles on the Protection of Children in Internal Armed Conflicts: The Case of the Massacre of Mapiripan and the Case of the Massacres of Ituango vs Colombia; VI. The Protection of Children of Indigenous Peoples: The Case of the Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous Community v. Paraguay; VII. The Meaning of the Superior Interest of the Child in Post Conflict Societies: Servellon Garcia and others vs Honduras; VIII. Child Soldiers in Paraguay: The Case of Vargas Areco; IX. The Pending Task of Construing the Meaning of the Rights of the Family in the jurisprudence of the Court; X. Reparation in cases of violation of human rights of children; XI. Upcoming contentious cases on children's rights in the system; Concluding remarks; Annexes; Instruments; Other Documents and Materials.