national treatment standard
The doctrine that a state is only bound to treat aliens and their property in the same way as it would treat its own citizens. Opposed to the international minimum standard, it is seen by its proponents (originally Latin American countries) as counteracting the attempts of economically and politically powerful Western states to use international law to impose their will on less well-developed states. Its effect, however, has been to expose foreign nationals to objectionable standards in states that regularly maltreat their own nationals.

• child being looked after by a local authority
• child cruelty
• child destruction
• child employee
• child in care
• Child Maintenance Service
• child of the family
• child of unmarried parents
• Child Protection Conference
• child protection in divorce
• Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service
• children and young people’s plan
• children in care
• children in need
• children’s barred list
• Children’s Commissioner
• children’s guardian
• child safety order
• child subjected to physical abuse
• child support maintenance
• child tax credit
• child witness
• Chiltern Hundreds, stewardship of the
• chose
• Church of England