158 C. SANDELOWSKY-BOSMAN AND T. LIEFAARD obligations under international children’s rights law and arguably its passive policy does not align with its obligation to take appropriate measures to protect children from third-party violations. Overall, imperiled children are being left alone despite the fact that they have ties with specific countries and that 196 UNCRC States Parties have committed to the protection of children, so accordingly have obligations in this regard. This article therefore concludes by submitting that a more extensive approach towards jurisdiction would not only acknowledge that the world has become a globalised system in which many children and families can cross borders relatively easily and in which flows of information and intelligence do not seem to have many limitations; it would also do justice to the UNCRC as a living instrument meant to effectively protect the rights and freedoms of all children. ORCID Chrisje Sandelowsky-Bosman http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9001-3985 Ton Liefaard http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7666-9796 Acknowledgements The authors wish to thank the reviewers for their valuable comments on a previous draft of the article and Ms Wendy Rodger for her support in translating the original (Dutch) paper into English. The authors have received funding from UNICEF The Netherlands for the translation. This article is partly based on a paper in Dutch previously published in Nederlands Tijdschrift voor de Mensenrechten 44(3).