Children's rights : a comparative perspective

Author(s)

• Freeman, Michael D. A.

Bibliographic Information

Children's rights : a comparative perspective

edited by Michael Freeman

（Issues in law and society）

Dartmouth, c1996

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hbk ISBN 9781855216785

Description

This work examines the United Nations Convention on the Rights of The Child finalized in 1989 along with the children's rights movement as a whole. The historical study draws on the Geneva Declaration in 1924 up to the Convention in 1989, tracing the changing principles of children's rights.

Table of Contents

• Argentina - children's rights in family relationships, the gulf between law and social reality, Cecilia P. Grosman
• the convention of the rights of the child - implications for Canada, Stephen J. Toope
• children and the convention - the Danish debate, Linda Nielsen and Lis Frost
• the convention - an English perspective, Michael Freeman
• the relevance of the convention on the right of the child in Holland, Coby de Graaf
• controversies and dilemmas - Japan confronts the convention, Yukiko Matsushima
• the implementation of the rights of the child in the Mozambican context, Luis Filipe Sacramento and Ana Maria Pessoa
• New Zealand and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of The Child, Mark Henaghan
• children's rights in Poland three years after the convention, Wanda Stojanowska and Elzbieta Holewinska-Lapinska
• the UN Convention on the Rights of The Child and Russian family law, Olga Khazova
• Swiss law and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of The Child, Olivier Guillod.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9781855216839

Description

The articles in this volume shed light on some of the major tensions in the field of children's rights (such as the ways in which children's best interests and respect for their autonomy can be reconciled), challenges (such as how the CRC can be made a reality in the lives of children in the face of ignorance, apathy or outright opposition) and critiques (whether children's rights are a Western imposition or a successful global consensus). Along the way, the writing covers a myriad of issues, encompassing the opposition to the CRC in the US; gay parenting: Dr Seuss's take on children's autonomy; the voice of neonates on their health care; the role of NGO in supporting child labourers in India, and young people in detention and more.

Table of Contents

Children's Rights Part I: Origins 1. Eichsteller, G. (2009). Janusz Korczak-His Legacy and its Relevance for Children's Rights Today. The International Journal of Children's Rights, 17(3), pp. 377-391. 2. Moody, Z. (2014). Transnational treaties on children's rights: Norm building and circulation in the twentieth century. Paedagogica Historica, 50(1-2), pp. 151-164. 3. Cantwell, N. (2011) 'Are Children's Rights Still Human?' in Invernizzi, A. and Williams, J. (eds), The Human Rights of Children From Visions to implementation. Ashgate, 2011, pp. 37-60. 4. Cohen, C. P. (2006). Role of the United States in the Drafting of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, The. Emory Int'l L. Rev., 20, pp. 185-198. Part II: Influential scholarship 5. Freeman, M. (2011), 'The value and values of children's rights', chapter 1 in Invernizzi, A. and Williams, J. (eds), The Human Rights of Children From Visions to implementation. Ashgate, 2011, pp. 21- 34. 6. Woodhouse, B. B. (1993). Out of children's needs, children's rights: The child's voice in defining the family. BYU J. Pub. L., 8, pp. 321-341. 7. Eekelaar, J. 'The Interests of the child and the child's wishes: the role of dynamic self-determinism' 8(1) International Journal of Law Policy and the Family (1994) pp. 42-61. Part III: Implementation 8. Harris-Short, S. 'International Human Rights Law: Imperialist, Inept and Ineffective? Cultural Relativism and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child' 25(1) Human Rights Quarterly (2003) pp. 130-181. 9. Schabas, W., 'Reservations to the Convention on the Rights of the Child' 18 Human Rights Quarterly (1996) pp. 472-491. 10. Lundy, L. Kilkelly U. and Byrne, B. 'Incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in Law: A Comparative Review' 21(3) International Journal of Children's Rights (2013) pp. 442-463. 11. Howe, R. B., & Covell, K. (2010). 'Miseducating children about their rights'. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 5(2), pp. 91-102. Part IV: International Reach 12. Stalford, H. 'The CRC in Litigation under EU Law' in Liefaard, T. and Doek, J. (Eds) Litigating the Rights of the Child The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Domestic and International Jurisprudence. Springer, 2015, pp. 211-231. 13. Sloth-Nielsen, J. (1996) 'Chicken soup or chainsaws: some implications of the constitutionalisation of children's rights in South Africa' Acta Juridica, pp. 6-27. 14. Sanghera, Gurchathen S, The 'Politics' of Children's Rights and Child Labour in India: A Social Constructionist Perspective, 12(2) The International Journal of Human Rights (2008) pp. 215-232. 15. Buss, E. 'Constitutional Fidelity through Children's Rights' Supreme Court Review (2004) pp. 355-407. Part V: Interdisciplinary Scholarship 16. Olsen, F. (1992). Children's rights: Some feminist approaches to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 6(1), pp. 192-220. 17. Daiute, C. (2008). The rights of children, the rights of nations: Developmental theory and the politics of children's rights. Journal of Social Issues, 64(4), pp. 701-723. 18. Todres, J., & Higinbotham, S. (2013). A Person's a Person: Children's Rights in Children's Literature. Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 45(1), pp. 1-56. Part VI: Involving children 19. Alderson, P., Hawthorne, J., & Killen, M. (2005). 'Participation Rights of Premature Babies', The. International Journal of Children's Rights 13, pp. 31-50. 20. Cashmore, J. and Parkinson, P. (2007) 'What responsibility to courts have to hear children's voices? 15 The International Journal of Children's Rights, pp. 43-60. 21. Lundy, L., & McEvoy, L. (2012). Children's rights and research processes: Assisting children to (in) formed views. Childhood, 19(1), pp. 129-144. Part VII: Issues that are contested 22. Alston, P., 'The Unborn Child and Abortion Under the Draft Convention on the Rights of the Child' Human Rights Quarterly 12 (1990) 156-178 23. Goldson, B. (2005) 'Child Imprisonment: A case for Abolition?' 5(2) Youth Justice pp.77-90. 24. Tobin, J., & McNair, R. (2009). 'Public international law and the regulation of private spaces: Does the convention on the rights of the child impose an obligation on states to allow gay and lesbian couples to adopt?' International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 23(1), pp. 110-131. 25. Saunders, B. J., & Goddard, C. (2008). 'Some Australian children's perceptions of physical punishment in childhood.' Children & Society, 22(6), pp. 405-417.

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Details

• NCID: BA27362753
• ISBN:
  • 1855216787
  • 1855216833
• LCCN: 95034903
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Aldershot
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 248 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : K639.Z9
  • DC20 : 323.3/52
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Children's rights
  • LCSH : Children -- Legal status, laws, etc
  • LCSH : Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA27362775