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Treated Like a Child: Age Discrimination and Children's Rights

Treated Like a Child: Age Discrimination and Children's Rights

Author: Aoife Daly; Pernilla Leviner; Rebecca Thorburn Stern
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
ISBN: 9789004708426

Published In: September 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Disclaimer:
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One of the core principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is non-discrimination. However, little attention has been given to how this principle can protect children from discrimination because of age and childhood. This anthology brings together experts from children’s rights studies to explore both overall issues related to discrimination against children, as well as non-legitimate differential treatment in specific contexts – including climate crisis, child labour, migration, healthcare, and child protection. Attention is drawn to the potential to advance children’s rights in the framework of nondiscrimination in relation to children as a group.

Chapter 1 Introduction

Authors: Aoife Daly, Rebecca Thorburn Stern, and Pernilla Leviner

Chapter 2 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 2, and Discrimination on the Basis of Childhood: The CRC Paradox?

Authors: Aoife Daly, Rebecca Thorburn Stern, and Pernilla Leviner

Chapter 3 ‘Handle with Care’: Addressing Disadvantage Based on Childhood through a Non-discrimination Frame

Authors: Michael George Marcondes Smith and Wouter Vandenhole

Chapter 4 Confronting Age Discrimination: The Importance of Article 2 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Author: Claire Breen

Chapter 5 Adultism, Normative Power, and Voting Age Discrimination

Author: John Wall

Chapter 6 Decolonizing Age Discrimination against Children in Intergenerational Relationships: Alternative Generationing and Generativities

Author: Lucia Rabello de Castro

Chapter 7 Nondiscrimination/Equality and Children’s Rights in the Climate Crisis

Author: Aoife Daly

Chapter 8 Working Children: Children without Childhood or Opponents against Age-Based Discrimination?

Author: Manfred Liebel

Chapter 9 The Devil Is in the Details(?): Age-Based Discrimination of Children in the Context of Migration

Author: Rebecca Thorburn Stern

Chapter 10 Children, Age Discrimination Law, and Consent to Surgery

Author: Priscilla Alderson

Chapter 11 Children as Bearers of Rights or of Problems? Non-legitimate and Unfair Treatment of Children in the Context of Combatting Gang Crime in Sweden

Author: Pernilla Leviner

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