The Oxford Handbook of Children's Rights Law

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The Oxford Handbook of Children's Rights Law

Edited by Jonathan Todres · Shami M. King
Oxford University Press June 2020

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ISBN-13
9780190097608
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication
June 2020
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

Table of Contents

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
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