Children, rights, and the law
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Children, rights, and the law
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Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1992
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Revised papers from a workshop organized by the Centre for International and Public Law at Australian National University, July 1991
"A special issue of the International journal of law and the family"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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The adoption in November 1989, by the UN General Assembly, of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child heralded the arrival of a new era in the development of children's rights. As of March 1991 over 75 states have ratified the Convention. Using the Convention as a framework, the contributors to this volume set out to re-evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of approaching issues of children's welfare and well-being through the lens of a 'rights' approach. The aim is to take a fresh look at these issues and to do so with specific reference to an international treaty that is certain to be ratified by a very large number of countries in every region of the world and which will soon be legally binding in many states. This is a special issue of the International Journal of Law and the Family. Contributors: Tom Campbell, Onora O'Neill, Michael Freeman, Ngaire Naffine, Margaret Coady, Tony Coady, Sheila McLean, Frances Olsen, John Eekelaar
Table of Contents
- The rights of the child - as person, as dependant, as juvenile, as future adult, Tom Campbell
- children's rights and children's lives, Onora O'Neill
- the concept of childhood - from dependency to autonomy, Michael Freeman
- the young child in court - can there be rights without a remedy?, Ngaire Naffine
- reconciling conflicting rights - the case of "uncontrollable" children, John Seymour
- child abuse, morality and law, Margaret Coady and Tony Coady
- child support - putting rights into practice or policial posturing, Stephen Parker
- medical experimentation and children's rights, Sheila McLean
- the Convention on the Rights of the Child - a feminist analysis, Frances Olsen
- what balance does the Convention strike in reconciling the interests of the child, the family and the State?, John Ekelaar.
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