Children's Rights / Ursula Kilkelly.

"The articles in this volume shed light on some of the major tensions in the field of children's rights (such as the ways in which children's best interests and respect for their autonomy can be reconciled), challenges (such as how the CRC can be made a reality in the lives of childre...

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Main Author: Kilkelly, Ursula (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Routledge, 2017.
Edition:1st.
Series:Library of essays on family rights.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter Introduction
  • part Part I: Origins
  • chapter 1 Janusz Korczak-His Legacy and its Relevance for Children's Rights Today
  • chapter 2 Transnational treaties on children's rights: Norm building and circulation in the twentieth century
  • chapter 3 Are Children's Rights Still Human?
  • chapter 4 Role of the United States in the Drafting of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • part Part II: Influential Scholarship
  • chapter 5 The value and values of children's rights
  • chapter 6 Out of children's needs, children's rights: The child's voice in defining the family
  • chapter 7 The Interests of the child and the child's wishes: the role of dynamic self-determinism
  • part Part III: Implementation
  • chapter 8 International Human Rights Law: Imperialist, Inept and Ineffective? Cultural Relativism and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • chapter 9 Reservations to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • chapter 10 Incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in Law: A Comparative Review
  • chapter 11 Miseducating children about their rights
  • part Part IV: International Reach
  • chapter 12 The CRC in Litigation undifer EU Law
  • chapter 13 Chicken soup or chainsaws: some implications of the constitutionalisation of children's rights in South Africa
  • chapter 14 The 2Politics3 of Children's Rights and Child Labour in India: A Social Constructionist Perspective
  • chapter 15 Constitutional Fidelity through Children's Rights
  • part Part V: Interdisciplinary Scholarship
  • chapter 16 Children's rights: Some feminist approaches to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • chapter 17 The rights of children, the rights of nations: Developmental theory and the politics of children's rights
  • chapter 18 A Person's a Person: Children's Rights in Children's Literature
  • part Part VI: Involving Children
  • chapter 19 Participation Rights of Premature Babies
  • chapter 20 What responsibility do courts have to hear children's voices?
  • chapter 21 Children's rights and research processes: Assisting children to (in)formed views
  • part Part VII: Issues that are Contested
  • chapter 22 The Unborn Child and Abortion Undifer the Draft Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • chapter 23 Child Imprisonment: A case for Abolition?
  • chapter 24 Public international law and the regulation of private spaces: Does the convention on the rights of the child impose an obligation on states to allow gay and lesbian couples to adopt?
  • chapter 25 Some Australian children's perceptions of physical punishment in childhood.