Children in Extreme Circumstances: Children’s Right to Return to Their Own Country and the Duty of the State to Help

The article discusses the right of children to receive help from their state of citizenship in the extreme circumstances of the al-Hol camp in Syria. In addition, the article discusses the role of the state in the human rights procedures. The article is an ex-post case study of a case in the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The Communication argued that the children’s situation in the camp violated several articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and that not helping the children was tantamount to discrimination based on ethnicity, age, and the religion of their parents. The respondent state, Finland, presented several objections to admissibility. This article examines the procedure, the objections and the decision of the Committee, which found a violation of the right to life. The article concludes that it should be in the interest of the states that the human right bodies are able to resolve difficult issues of human rights.