A Magna Carta for children? : rethinking children's rights / Michael Freeman.
"The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely ratified human rights treaty, yet children still face poverty, violence, war, disease and disaster. Are the rights we currently afford to children enough? Combining historical analysis with international human rights law, Michael...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Are children human?
- Interlude : taking a deep breath
- The convention on the rights of the child and its principles
- The convention: norms and themes
- Enforcing children's rights
- Criticisms of the convention
- Beyond the convention
- Interlude : what we can learn from the sociology of childhood
- Childhoods and rights
- Regional children's rights
- Child-friendly justice
- The world twenty-five years on : new issues and responses
- Rethinking children's rights
- Alternatives to rights : or are they?
- A magna carta for children?
- Rethinking principles and concepts
- Conclusion
- Coda : a child of our time.