Description
Children's rights law is a relatively young but rapidly developing discipline. The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, the field's core legal instrument, is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. Yet, like children themselves, children's rights are often relegated to the margins in mainstream legal, political, and other discourses, despite their application to approximately one-third of the world's population and every human being's first stages of life. Now thirty years old, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) signalled a definitive shift in the way that children are viewed and understood--from passive objects subsumed within the family to full human beings with a distinct set of rights. Although the CRC and other children's rights law have spurred positive changes in law, policies, and attitudes toward children in numerous countries, implementation remains a work in progress. We have reached a state in the evolution of children's rights in which we need more critical evaluation and assessment of the CRC and the large body of children's rights law and policy that this treaty has inspired. We have moved from conceptualizing and adopting legislation to focusing on implementation and making the content of children's rights meaningful in the lives of all children. This book provides a critical evaluation and assessment of children's rights law, including the CRC. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners from around the world, it aims to elucidate the content of children's rights law, explore the complexities of implementation, and identify critical challenges and opportunities for children's rights law.
Table of Contents
Preface - Martha MinowIntroduction - Jonathan Todres and Shani M. KingI. Historical and Theoretical FrameworkChapter 1. Images Toward the Emancipation of Children in Modern Western Culture - Gertrud LenzerChapter 2. The Evolution of the Children's Rights Movement - Jo BeckerChapter 3. Taking Children's Human Rights Seriously - Michael FreemanChapter 4. The Interrelated and Interdependent Nature of Children's Rights - Savitri GoonesekereII. Perspectives and MethodsChapter 5. A Child-centered Approach to Children's Rights Law: Living Rights and Translations - Karl Hanson and Olga NieuwenhuysChapter 6. A Socio-Ecological Model of Children's Rights - Tali GalChapter 7. Critical Race Theory and Children's Rights - Natsu Taylor Saito and Akilah J. KinnisonChapter 8. Feminist Legal Theory and Children's Rights - Meredith Johnson HarbachChapter 9. Intersectionality and Children's Rights - Jessica Dixon WeaverIII. Substantive Legal AreasChapter 10. The Best Interests of the Child - Wouter Vandenhole and Gamze Erdem TürkelliChapter 11. Citizenship and Rights of Children - David B. ThronsonChapter 12. The Child's Right to Family - Barbara Bennett WoodhouseChapter 13. Child Participation - Jaap DoekChapter 14. Juvenile Justice - Ton LiefaardChapter 15. Placing Children's Freedom from Violence at the Heart of the Policy Agenda - Marta Santos PaisChapter 16. Continuing Dilemmas of International Adoption - Twila L. PerryChapter 17. Economic and Labor Rights of Children - Manfred LiebelChapter 18. The Health Rights of Children - Ursula KilkellyChapter 19. Revisiting the three 'R's in order to realize children's education rights: Relationships, Resources and Redress - Laura Lundy and Amy BrownChapter 20. Poverty and Children's Rights - Aoife NolanChapter 21. Situating the Rights vs. Culture Binary within the Context of Colonial History in Sub-Saharan Africa- Afua Twum-Danso ImohChapter 22. Climate Change & Children's Rights - Christine BakkerV. Selected Individual and Institutional ActorsChapter 23. Taking Part, Joining In, and Being Heard? Ethnographic Explorations of Children's Participation - Perpetua Kirby and Rebecca WebbChapter 24. National Human Rights Institutions for Children - Gerison LansdownChapter 25. Examining the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child through the Lens of Caste- and Descent-based Discrimination - Philip E. VeermanVI. Selected PopulationsChapter 26. Embracing Our LGBTQ Youth: A Child Rights Paradigm - Berta Esperanza Hernández-TruyolChapter 27. Indigenous Children - Addie C. RolnickChapter 28. Children with Disabilities: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges Ahead - Maya Sabatello and Mary Frances LaydenChapter 29. Independent Children - Julia Sloth Nielsen and Katrien KlepChapter 30. Trafficked Children - Mike DottridgeChapter 31. Children in Armed Conflict - Mark DrumblChapter 32. Working Towards Recognition of the Rights of Migrant and Refugee Children - Sarah PaolettiVII. ConclusionChapter 33. Human Rights Education: Educating about Children's Rights - R. Brian Howe and Katherine Covell Chapter 34. Children's Rights in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Opportunities - Jonathan Todres and Shani M. King
