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Children’s Rights Contextualized
2012Today, children are understood as ‘subjects of rights’ or ‘rights holders’. Accordingly, they have their own rights and are not simply reliant on the benevolence of those on whose support they depend. Insofar as children continue to be dependant, this dependence is cushioned by their own rights which aim at controlling any arbitrary behaviour towards ...
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Grassroots Childrenâs Rights
2012Generally, when speaking of children’s rights, reference is made to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 20 November 1989. The CRC is a formally binding international treaty by which the signatory states commit to adapt their laws and administrative regulation to match ...
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Schools of Thought in Children’s Rights
2012A consensus on the extent, priorities or even precise content of children’s rights is not readily available: children’s rights are a morally sensitive domain having to deal with strong, and often competing, normative and ideological perspectives. Working in such a context is particularly challenging, not only for policy makers and activists but also ...
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Hidden Aspects of Childrenâs Rights History
2012The discourse on children’s rights has many facets and meanings. They can be understood as a special form of human rights or as guidelines that separate childhood as a phase in life and as a status from adulthood. Under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), a differentiation is often made among protection, provision and ...
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The Role of Adults in Supporting Childrenâs Rights from Below
2012We began this book describing the important role that outstanding individuals, social institutions and organizations, or the states themselves have played in the promotion and defence of children’s rights during the twentieth century. In every chapter, and supported in examples from social research and social theory, we have tried to demonstrate the ...
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The Role of Children in Shaping New Contexts of Children’s Rights
2012We understand ‘children’s rights from below’ in a double sense: on the one hand, we emphasize that children in the societies known to us — for whatever reasons — are a subordinated and powerless social ‘group’ who are reliant on rights which they can use to overcome generational and other social inequalities. On the other hand, we emphasize, in view of
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Childrenâs Rights Since Margaret Thatcher
2014Marc Cornock, Heather Montgomery
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Rights, interests and expectations: Indigenous perspectives on unrestricted access to genomic data
Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020Maui Hudson +2 more
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