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Preliminary Material /Michael Freeman -- Childrens Health and Childrens Rights: an Introduction /Michael Freeman -- Listening and Responding? Childrens Participation in Health Care within England /Anita Franklin and Patricia Sloper -- The Participation Rights of Premature Babies /Priscilla Alderson , Joanna Hawthorne and Margaret Killen -- Children and Research: a Risk of Double Jeopardy? /Lynn Hagger and Simon Woods -- Of Newborns and Nubiles: Some Critical Challenges to Childrens Rights in Africa in the Era of HIV/ Aids /Julia Sloth-nielsen -- Rights of the Autistic Child /ROSALIND EKMAN LADD -- Caring for Children with Severe Disabilities: Boundaried and Relational Rights /Jo Bridgeman -- Adolescent Gender Identity and the Courts /Melinda Jones -- Anorexia Nervosa and Its Moral Foundations /Simona Giordano -- Short Changed? the Law and Ethics of Male Circumcision /Marie Fox and Michael Thomson -- Communication for Abandonment of Female Genital Cutting: an Approach Based on Human Rights Principles /Neil Ford -- Rethinking Gillick /Michael Freeman -- Frail Connections: Legal and Psychiatric Knowledge Practices in U.S. Adjudication over Organ Donations by Children and Incompetent Adults /Marie-andrée Jacob -- Minors and Euthanasia /Debbie Mannaerts and Freddy Mortier -- Our Inheritance, Our Future: Their Rights? /SHEILA A.M. Mclean and J. Kenyon Mason -- Predictive Genetic Testing in Children and Respect for Autonomy /Phillipa Malpas -- Defining Parenthood /Bonnie Steinbock -- Index /Michael Freeman.

This article considers the sudden rush of enthusiam to hear children's voices in divorce proceedings in countries such as the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, and elsewhere and points to the problems that are likely to occur if the family law system really does mean to treat children seriously. It argues that children give complex accounts that may not fit neatly into either adult or legal agendas. Notwithstanding the difficulties that flow from this development, it is argued that it is essential to include children's understandings in the formulation of future policy and practice.

Can children theologize without substantial requirements? Initially, the movement of child theology accentuated children's original theological creativity. But in the last years, several authors point out that children need theological food in order to originally theologize. One of the most appropriate medium are children's books. This volume presents the lectures of the international symposium "Children's books: Nurture for children's theology". Proven experts demonstrate empirically studied strategies in order to stimulate children's theological reasoning, be it about God, Jesus as the savior, death, the soul, Christmas and many other theological topics more. This reader presents the state of the art in theologizing with children stimulated by children's books.

chapter Introduction -- part Part I: Origins -- chapter 1 Janusz Korczak-His Legacy and its Relevance for Children's Rights Today -- chapter 2 Transnational treaties on children's rights: Norm building and circulation in the twentieth century -- chapter 3 Are Children's Rights Still Human? -- chapter 4 Role of the United States in the Drafting of the Convention on the Rights of the Child -- part Part II: Influential Scholarship -- chapter 5 The value and values of children's rights -- chapter 6 Out of children's needs, children's rights: The child's voice in defining the family -- chapter 7 The Interests of the child and the child's wishes: the role of dynamic self-determinism -- part Part III: Implementation -- chapter 8 International Human Rights Law: Imperialist, Inept and Ineffective? Cultural Relativism and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child -- chapter 9 Reservations to the Convention on the Rights of the Child -- chapter 10 Incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in Law: A Comparative Review -- chapter 11 Miseducating children about their rights -- part Part IV: International Reach -- chapter 12 The CRC in Litigation under EU Law -- chapter 13 Chicken soup or chainsaws: some implications of the constitutionalisation of children's rights in South Africa -- chapter 14 The "Politics" of Children's Rights and Child Labour in India: A Social Constructionist Perspective -- chapter 15 Constitutional Fidelity through Children's Rights -- part Part V: Interdisciplinary Scholarship -- chapter 16 Children's rights: Some feminist approaches to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child -- chapter 17 The rights of children, the rights of nations: Developmental theory and the politics of children's rights -- chapter 18 A Person's a Person: Children's Rights in Children's Literature -- part Part VI: Involving Children -- chapter 19 Participation Rights of Premature Babies -- chapter 20 What responsibility do courts have to hear children's voices? -- chapter 21 Children's rights and research processes: Assisting children to (in)formed views -- part Part VII: Issues that are Contested -- chapter 22 The Unborn Child and Abortion Under the Draft Convention on the Rights of the Child -- chapter 23 Child Imprisonment: A case for Abolition? -- chapter 24 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? -- chapter 25 Some Australian children's perceptions of physical punishment in childhood.

Discusses a human rights and legal approach to issues such as violence against girls, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, welfare reform, and economic exploitation; some focus on Latin America, the US, and South Africa; 9 articles. Includes an annex with the text of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In the summer of 1998, Huquq al-Nas (Rights of the People), a supplement of the Lebanese daily al-Nahar, decided to do a special issue on the Palestinian camps in Lebanon. One of the topics to be dealt with was children's rights in the camps. A graduate student at the American University of Beirut who is a volunteer teacher in Shatila camp, Mayssoun Sukarieh, was asked to undertake this assignment. She suggested getting the children themselves to write little pieces, each on a particular right they felt was denied them or severely compromised. Huquq al-Nas liked the idea. The following testimonies were written by seventeen children between the ages of twelve and fifteen. Three times a week, these children meet with Ms. Sukarieh to study English and Palestinian history at Bayt Atfal al-Sumud, a local nongovernmental organization that operates nurseries and dental clinics and sponsors other activities for children in the refugee camps of Lebanon. With Ms. Sukarieh's help, the children have set up a lending library in Shatila and correspond by e-mail with Palestinian children in Dheishe camp in the West Bank. Before the planned special supplement on the camps could see the light of day, Huquq al-Nas folded. But the pieces had been written, and JPS decided that they were worth publishing. They were translated by Muhammad Ali Khalidi. The pieces are preceded by Ms. Sukarieh's account, taken from her classroom notes, of how they came to be written.