A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 27: The Right to an Adequate Standard of Living

Asbjørn Eide is former Director of the Norwegian Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oslo, former Torgny Segerstedt Professor at the University of Gothenburg and is presently visiting Professor at Lund University, Sweden. He is President of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention on Protection of the Rights of National Minorities of the Council of Europe. He served for 20 years (until 2004) as elected member of the expert UN Sub-Commission on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, in which capacity he prepared several studies for the United Nations (UN), one of them dealing with the right to food as a human right. He has published extensively and edited with C. Krause and A. Rosas the textbook Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 2001).