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1 online resource |
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The Future of Children's Rights; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; The Ageing of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; Not Merely Rights for Children but Children's Rights: The Theory Gap and the Assumption of the Importance of Children's Rights; The Long Awaited: Past Futures of Children's Rights; Children's Rights Research Moving into the Future -- Challenges on the Way Forward; Economic and Social Rights, Budgets and the Convention on the Rights of the Child |
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Ending the Physical Punishment of Children by Parents in the English-speaking World: The Impact of Language, Tradition and LawThe Third Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child? -- Challenges Arising Transforming the Rhetoric into Reality; A Child's Right to Enjoy Benefits of Scientific Progress and Its Applications; International Human Rights Standards and Child Imprisonment: Potentialities and Limitations; Authors of Their Own Lives? Children, Contracts, Their Responsibilities, Rights and Citizenship; Justifying Children's Rights |
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Incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in Law: A Comparative ReviewChildren with Disabilities: A Critical Appraisal; Building the 'Big Society': Exploring Representations of Young People and Citizenship in the National Citizen Service; Reflections on the UNCRC's Future from a Transdisciplinary Bricoleur; Reconceptualising the Child's Right to Development: Children and the Capability Approach; Implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child for 'Youth': Who and How?; Index |
| Summary |
This volume is in part intended to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. We are now a generation on from its formulation, and, as this varied collection of articles by leading thinkers in the field reflects, children's rights have come a long way. Yet the aim of this volume is not to look back, but to take stock and look forward. It explores subjects as diverse as socio-economic rights, corporal punishment, language and scientific progress as they relate to children and their rights, and offers new insights and new ideas. Edited by one of t |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Children's rights.
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Children -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
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Children -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Children's rights
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Children.
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Children's rights.
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Human rights.
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Legal status.
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Convention on the Rights of the Child (New York, 20 November 1989).
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1322514690 |
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9781322514697 |
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9004271775 |
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9789004271760 |
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9004271767 |
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9789004271777 |
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