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UN-BLURRING THE MYTHS AND REALITIES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN’S RIGHTS IN SOUTH AFRICA

Commonwealth Youth and Development, 2017
Awareness of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW 1979) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC 1989) is relatively high within academic and political circles in South Africa and elsewhere around the world.
T N Sithole, Kgothatso B Shai
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Children’s Rights Contextualized

2012
Today, 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 Children’s Rights

2012
Generally, 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

2012
A 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 Children’s Rights History

2012
The 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 Children’s Rights from Below

2012
We 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

2012
We 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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Children’s Rights Since Margaret Thatcher

2014
Marc Cornock, Heather Montgomery
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Human rights and the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective and prospective analysis

Lancet, The, 2023
Lawrence Gostin
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Children’s Rights and Well-Being

2015
John M. Davis, E. Kay M. Tisdall
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