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The Oxford Handbook of Children's Rights Law

Author: Jonathan Todres; Shami M. King
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780190097608
Published In: June 2020
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Provides scholars, practitioners, and students with a singular, up-to-date resource for international children's rights law. Identifies critical challenges that must be overcome to secure rights for all children. Fills a gap in human rights scholarship and offers diverse perspectives on children's rights, including those from the Global South.

Preface - Martha Minow

Introduction - Jonathan Todres and Shani M. King

I. Historical and Theoretical Framework

Chapter 1. Images Toward the Emancipation of Children in Modern Western Culture - Gertrud Lenzer

Chapter 2. The Evolution of the Children's Rights Movement - Jo Becker

Chapter 3. Taking Children's Human Rights Seriously - Michael Freeman

Chapter 4. The Interrelated and Interdependent Nature of Children's Rights - Savitri Goonesekere

II. Perspectives and Methods

Chapter 5. A Child-centered Approach to Children's Rights Law: Living Rights and Translations - Karl Hanson and Olga Nieuwenhuys

Chapter 6. A Socio-Ecological Model of Children's Rights - Tali Gal

Chapter 7. Critical Race Theory and Children's Rights - Natsu Taylor Saito and Akilah J. Kinnison

Chapter 8. Feminist Legal Theory and Children's Rights - Meredith Johnson Harbach

Chapter 9. Intersectionality and Children's Rights - Jessica Dixon Weaver

III. Substantive Legal Areas

Chapter 10. The Best Interests of the Child - Wouter Vandenhole and Gamze Erdem Türkelli

Chapter 11. Citizenship and Rights of Children - David B. Thronson

Chapter 12. The Child's Right to Family - Barbara Bennett Woodhouse

Chapter 13. Child Participation - Jaap Doek

Chapter 14. Juvenile Justice - Ton Liefaard

Chapter 15. Placing Children's Freedom from Violence at the Heart of the Policy Agenda - Marta Santos Pais

Chapter 16. Continuing Dilemmas of International Adoption - Twila L. Perry

Chapter 17. Economic and Labor Rights of Children - Manfred Liebel

Chapter 18. The Health Rights of Children - Ursula Kilkelly

Chapter 19. Revisiting the three 'R's in order to realize children's education rights: Relationships, Resources and Redress - Laura Lundy and Amy Brown

Chapter 20. Poverty and Children's Rights - Aoife Nolan

Chapter 21. Situating the Rights vs. Culture Binary within the Context of Colonial History in Sub-Saharan Africa- Afua Twum-Danso Imoh

Chapter 22. Climate Change & Children's Rights - Christine Bakker

V. Selected Individual and Institutional Actors

Chapter 23. Taking Part, Joining In, and Being Heard? Ethnographic Explorations of Children's Participation - Perpetua Kirby and Rebecca Webb

Chapter 24. National Human Rights Institutions for Children - Gerison Lansdown

Chapter 25. Examining the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child through the Lens of Caste- and Descent-based Discrimination - Philip E. Veerman

VI. Selected Populations

Chapter 26. Embracing Our LGBTQ Youth: A Child Rights Paradigm - Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol

Chapter 27. Indigenous Children - Addie C. Rolnick

Chapter 28. Children with Disabilities: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges Ahead - Maya Sabatello and Mary Frances Layden

Chapter 29. Independent Children - Julia Sloth Nielsen and Katrien Klep

Chapter 30. Trafficked Children - Mike Dottridge

Chapter 31. Children in Armed Conflict - Mark Drumbl

Chapter 32. Working Towards Recognition of the Rights of Migrant and Refugee Children - Sarah Paoletti

VII. Conclusion

Chapter 33. Human Rights Education: Educating about Children's Rights - R. Brian Howe and Katherine Covell Chapter 34. Children's Rights in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Opportunities - Jonathan Todres and Shani M. King