'Difference' or discrimination? Exploring the concepts underpinning children's rights, discrimination and the need to acknowledge difference -- Children's rights and medical treatment : issues of capacity, choice and consent -- Human-assisted reproduction and the child's right to identity -- The corporal punishment of children in New Zealand : the power of parental rights in New Zealand -- Taking liberties : the detention of the at-risk child in Ireland -- Age discrimination and the rights of Irish-born children of asylum seekers
Summary
Explores the extent to which children's rights are secured at the national level, and the reasons why they have or have not been recognised and secured by various states at the level of domestic law. This book examines the theoretical and legal underpinnings of gender and race discrimination, at both the domestic and international level
