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For decades, Professor Michael Freeman has without doubt been one of the world's most infuential scholars in international children's rights. His scholarship has been at the forefront of the field and has helped shape many of the developments within it. This collection offers the reader a thought-provoking snapshot of some of his most seminal essays, written and/or published over the past 30 years. Together they highlight above all the interdisciplinary nature of the issues he discusses. Legal doctrinal questions that make the case for recognising that children have rights are of course discussed. But aspects of moral and political philosophy are dealt with as well, in addition to, among other other disciplines, history, theology, psychology and antropology

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in the world, yet everyday children still face poverty, violence, war, disease and disaster. Are the rights we currently afford to children enough? Combining historical analysis with international human rights law, Michael Freeman considers early legal and philosophical theories on children's rights before exploring the impact and limitations of the Convention itself. He also suggests ways that we may rethink children's rights in the future as well as identifying key areas for reform. This book will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience who are interested in children's rights, children's studies, the history of childhood, international human rights, and comparative family law. It is a crucial restatement of the importance of law, policy and rights in improving children's lives

Preliminary Material /Michael Freeman -- Introduction /Michael Freeman -- Why It Remains Important to Take Children's Rights Seriously /Michael Freeman -- The Participation Rights of Premature Babies /Priscilla Alderson , Joanna Hawthorne and Killen Margaret -- Towards a Theory of Children's Participation /Nigel Thomas -- Is the Honeymoon Over? Children and Young People's Participation in Public Decision-Making /E. Kay and M. Tisdall -- The Principle of Non-Discrimination in the Convention on the Rights of the Child /Samantha Besson -- The Synthesis of Age and Gender: Intersectionality, International Human Rights Law and the Marginalisation of the Girl-Child /Nura Taefi -- Children and Religion under Article 14 UNCRC: A Critical Analysis /Sylvie Langlaude -- Mainstreaming Children's Rights in, to and Through Education in a Society Emerging from Conflict /Laura Lundy -- Fostering Inclusive Societal Values Through Law /Lee Ann Basser and Melinda Jones -- Beyond the Supermarket Shelf: Using a Rights Based Approach to Address Children's Health Needs /John Tobin -- Breastfeeding – A Human Rights Issue? /Michael C. Latham -- 'He'll learn it on his body': Disciplining Childhood in Canadian law /Anne McGillivray -- Legal Reform and Attitudes Toward Physical Punishment in Sweden /Joan E. Durrant -- Protecting Children's Rights in Africa: A Critique of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child /'Dejo Olowu -- Estonian Children's Perceptions of Rights: Implications for Societies in Transition /Susan P. Limber , Vahur Kask , Mati Heidmets , Natalie Hevener Kaufman and Gary B. Melton -- The Sociology of Childhood in Relation to Children's Rights /Berry Mayall -- Rights Flow Downhill /Katherine Hunt Federle -- The Century of the Child Revisited /Jeroen J.H. Dekker -- Janusz Korczak – His Legacy and its Relevance for Children's Rights Today /Gabriel Eichsteller -- Index /Michael Freeman.

Constitutes a commentary on Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This title is part of the series, "A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child", which provides an analysis of substantive, organizational and procedural provisions of the CRC and its two Optional Protocols

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.