In its 20 years, this widely ratified convention has delivered real change to children.
One of the most widely ratified human rights conventions globally is the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the world's most widely ratified treaty, guarantees 'the right of the child to education with a view to achieving this right progressively on the basis of equal opportunity'.
But these were narrowly drawn, endorsed by a smallish number of countries, and comprehensively ignored in the second world war, as they had not been in the first.Today the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, with 188 signatories, together with the Genocide Convention of 1948, are among the most widely ratified international treaties.
However, contrary to their widely ratified counterparts, these provisions specify the areas of equal treatment.
However most of these provisions are only slightly more specific than their widely ratified counterparts.
Treaties, conventions and regulations that are widely ratified often only constitute the lowest level of common interest that can be agreed upon and can thus be considered as ensuring a minimum standard of protection.
In order to define best practice it seems to be more promising to turn to provisions that have not been widely ratified and elements of soft law, which are not legally binding.
Further, several ILO conventions make explicit reference to migrant workers: The Convention concerning Migration for Employment ILO Convention No.. 97) was adopted after the Second World War and was widely ratified.
In its third and final part this article examines legally non-binding or not widely ratified provisions in order to determine elements of a best practice set of rights for seasonal workers.
Third, this article draws upon soft law, and legally non-binding or not widely ratified provisions in order to determine elements of a comprehensive set of social protection rights for seasonal workers.
