Suchergebnisse

The value and values of children's rights / Michael Freeman -- Are children's rights still human? / Nigel Cantwell -- Understanding a human rights based approach to matters involving children : conceptual foundations and strategic considerations / John Tobin -- The CRC : dynamics and directions of monitoring and implementation / Jaap Doek -- Acknowledging children as international citizens : a child-sensitive communication mechanism for the convention on the rights of the child / Geraldine Van Bueren -- Has research improved the human rights of children or have the information needs of the CRC improved data about children? / Judith Ennew -- How are the human rights of children related to research methodology? / Harriot Beazley ... [et al.] -- Using the CRC in law and policy : two ways to improve / Ursula Kilkelly -- Using the CRC to inform EU law and policy-making / Helen Stalford and Eleanor Drywood -- The roles of independent human rights institutions in implementing the CRC / Brian Gran -- Multi-level governance and CRC implementation / Jane Williams -- Human rights and poverty in the UK : time for change / Rhian Croke and Anne Crowley -- An exploration of the discrimination-rights dynamic in relation to children / Elspeth Webb -- Child health equity : from theory to reality / Jeffrey Goldhagen and Raúl Mercer -- Our rights, our story : Funky Dragon's report / Funky Dragon

This volume provides a series of critical analyses of some of the contemporary debates in relation to the human rights of children, resituating them within visions which informed the text of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989. The studies embrace examination of some of today's widespread interpretations of the CRC, analysis of what is implied by a human rights-based approach in research and advocacy and consideration of advances and barriers to research and to several aspects of CRC implementation. With contributions by leading experts in the field, the book examines the CRC as an international instrument, its inherent dilemmas and some of the debates generated by the challenges of implementation. It embraces examinations of different levels of governance from the international to the state party, regional and local levels, including institutional developments and changes in law, policy and practice. The book will be a valuable resource for students, researchers and policy-makers working in the area of children's rights and welfare.

`This collection..is outstanding. It has an excellent grasp of the field and students in fields of both social studies of childhood and children's rights and citizenship will gain a lot from reading and studying the book' - Jens Qvortrup, Professor of Sociology, University of Trondheim. `Anyone who is concerned with citizenship should grapple with the thesis in this collection. This stimulating book will provoke discussion of what is involved in recognising that children are as much part of our society as adults' - Professor Michael Freeman, Editor of International Journal of Children's Rights