Description
Product ID: | 9781855216839 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Issues in Law and Society |
Title: | Children's Rights |
Authors: | Author: Laura, LL.B., LL.M. Lundy, Ursula Kilkelly |
Page Count: | 256 |
Subjects: | Age groups: children, Age groups: children, Age groups: adolescents, International institutions, Human rights, civil rights, Comparative law, Public international law: humanitarian law, Age groups: adolescents, United Nations & UN agencies, Human rights, Comparative law, International humanitarian law |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Dartmouth Publishing Co Ltd |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 1996-03-21 |