Full Description
One of the core principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is non-discrimination. However, little attention has been given to how this principle can protect children from discrimination because of age and childhood.
This anthology brings together experts from children's rights studies to explore both overall issues related to discrimination of children, as well as non-legitimate differential treatment in specific contexts - including climate crisis, child labour, migration, healthcare, and child protection. Attention is drawn to the potential to advance children's rights in the framework of nondiscrimination in relation to children as a group.
Contents
Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
Aoife Daly, Rebecca Thorburn Stern and Pernilla Leviner
2 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 2, and Discrimination on the Basis of Childhood: The CRC Paradox?
Aoife Daly, Rebecca Thorburn Stern and Pernilla Leviner
3 'Handle with Care': Addressing Disadvantage Based on Childhood through a Non-discrimination Frame
Michael George Marcondes Smith and Wouter Vandenhole
4 Confronting Age Discrimination: The Importance of Article 2 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Claire Breen
5 Adultism, Normative Power, and Voting Age Discrimination
John Wall
6 Decolonizing Age Discrimination against Children in Intergenerational Relationships: Alternative Generationing and Generativities
Lucia Rabello de Castro
7 Nondiscrimination/Equality and Children's Rights in the Climate Crisis
Aoife Daly
8 Working Children: Children without Childhood or Opponents against Age-Based Discrimination?
Manfred Liebel
9 The Devil Is in the Details(?): Age-Based Discrimination of Children in the Context of Migration
Rebecca Thorburn Stern
10 Children, Age Discrimination Law, and Consent to Surgery
Priscilla Alderson
11 Children as Bearers of Rights or of Problems? Non-legitimate and Unfair Treatment of Children in the Context of Combatting Gang Crime in Sweden
Pernilla Leviner
Index
