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Subject(s)

• Children—Legal status, laws, etc [Browse]
• Children's rights [Browse]

Editor

• Todres, Jonathan [Browse]
• King, Shani Mahiri [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks [More in this series]

Summary note

"This book is a foundational inter-disciplinary volume on children's rights that is relevant to scholars, practitioners, and students with interests in children's rights, human rights, family law, and related topics. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners in the field of children's rights, this book provides both in-depth analysis of children's rights as a discipline, and maps the critical issues for advancing children's rights today and in the future"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface / Martha Minow
• Introduction / Jonathan Todres and Shani M. King
• Images Toward the Emancipation of Children in Modern Western Culture / Gertrud Lenzer
• The Evolution of the Children's Rights Movement / Jo Becker
• Taking Children's Human Rights Seriously / Michael Freeman
• The Interrelated and Interdependent Nature of Children's Rights / Savitri Goonesekere
• A Child-centered Approach to Children's Rights Law : Living Rights and Translations / Karl Hanson and Olga Nieuwenhuys
• A Socio-Ecological Model of Children's Rights / Tali Gal
• Critical Race Theory and Children's Rights / Natsu Taylor Saito and Akilah J. Kinnison
• Feminist Legal Theory and Children's Rights / Meredith Johnson Harbach
• Intersectionality and Children's Rights / Jessica Dixon Weaver
• The Best Interests of the Child / Wouter Vandenhole and Gamze Erdem Türkelli
• Citizenship and Rights of Children / David B. Thronson
• The Child's Right to Family / Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
• Child Participation / Jaap Doek
• Juvenile Justice / Ton Liefaard
• Placing Children's Freedom from Violence at the Heart of the Policy Agenda / Marta Santos Pais
• Continuing Dilemmas of International Adoption / Twila L. Perry
• Economic and Labor Rights of Children / Manfred Liebel
• The Health Rights of Children / Ursula Kilkelly
• Revisiting the three 'R's in order to realize children's education rights: Relationships, Resources and Redress / Laura Lundy and Amy Brown
• Poverty and Children's Rights / Aoife Nolan
• Situating the Rights vs. Culture Binary within the Context of Colonial History in Sub-Saharan Africa / Afua Twum-Danso Imoh
• Climate Change & Children's Rights / Christine Bakker
• Taking Part, Joining In, and Being Heard? : Ethnographic Explorations of Children's Participation / Perpetua Kirby and Rebecca Webb
• National Human Rights Institutions for Children
• Gerison Lansdown
• Examining the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child through the Lens of Caste- and Descent-based Discrimination / Philip E. Veerman
• Embracing Our LGBTQ Youth : A Child Rights Paradigm / Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol
• Indigenous Children / Addie C. Rolnick
• Children with Disabilities: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges Ahead / Maya Sabatello and Mary Frances Layden
• Independent Children / Julia Sloth Nielsen and Katrien Klep
• Trafficked Children / Mike Dottridge
• Children in Armed Conflict / Mark Drumbl
• Working Towards Recognition of the Rights of Migrant and Refugee Children / Sarah Paoletti
• Human Rights Education : Educating about Children's Rights / R. Brian Howe and Katherine Covell
• Children's Rights in the Twenty-First Century : Challenges and Opportunities / Jonathan Todres and Shani M. King.

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ISBN

• 9780190097608 (hardcover)
• 0190097604 (hardcover)

LCCN

2019025726

OCLC

1105748354

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