Child rights and international discrimination law : implementing Article 2 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child / Edited by Marit Skivenes and Karl Harald Søvig.

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TextSeries: Routledge research in international lawPublisher: New York, NY : Routledge, 2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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online resource

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9780429020926
0429020929
9780429665097
0429665091
9780429662379
0429662378
9780429667817
0429667817

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341.4/8572 23

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K639.A41989

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AcknowledgementNotes on ContributorsChapter 1Discriminating Children. Katre Luhamaa, Marit Skivenes & Karl Harald SøvigChapter 2Article 2 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Non-Discrimination and Children's Rights. Elaine E. Sutherland Chapter 3Respecting Age: Discrimination against the Young and the Old. David Archard Chapter 4 The Ageing of Article 2(1): The Child's Right to be Free from Age-Based Discrimination. Claire Breen Chapter 5Illegitimate Consequences of 'Illegitimacy'?: Article 2 UNCRC and Non-Marital Children in the British Isles. Brian Sloan Chapter 6 The non-discrimination principle in child protection: a snapshot on a seemingly trivial practice of transitions in care. Tarja Pösö Chapter 7That time of the month: discrimination against girl children who cannot afford sanitary health care. Lize Mills & Comine Howe Chapter 8 Collateral Damage: Discrimination in Failure-to-Protect Laws for Children's Wellbeing. D. Kelly Weisberg Chapter 9 Citizen Children and Unauthorized Immigrant Parents: Can Best Interest Analysis Relive Discrimination Based on Status. Linda Elrod Chapter 10 Hidden discriminatory practices in access to education for children with disabilities -- a challenge for children's rights. Trynie Boezaart Chapter 11 Starting from the System Building -- Child Protection in China. Liu HuawenChapter 12The importance of Article 2 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child for refugee children. Sonia Human Chapter 13 Birth and Status: the Ongoing Discrimination against Children in Scots law based on Parentage. Gillian Black Index

Summary: Societies and states are at a crossroad in how children are treated and how their rights are respected and protected. Childrens new position and their strong rights create tensions and challenge the traditional relationships between family and the state. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted unanimously by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1989 and came into force in 1990. Article 2 places states under an obligation to accord primacy to the best interests of the child in all actions concerning children and to ensure and regulate child protection. This book offers a comparative and critical analysis of the implementation of Article 2 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. In order to examine how Article 2 is being implemented, it is essential to have a sound understanding of the obligations it emposes. The opening chapters will explore the precise content of these obligations in terms of the legislative history of the text, its underlying philosophy, its amplification by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, and subsequent authoritative interpretations of it by courts around the world. The book will then drill down into the conceptual and theoretical challenges posed by the very nature of the obligations and will offer in-depth exploration of the long-running 'rights v welfare' debate that has always presented something of a challenge in giving effect to children's rights. Contributors are leading academics in the children's rights field drawn from a wide range of countries and jurisdictions worldwide, including those with common law, civilian and mixed traditions. Disciplines represented in the book include law, psychology, political science, childhood studies, social work and anthropology. By drawing together the various facets of Article 2 and analysing it from a range of perspectives, the volume provides a coherent and comprehensive inter-disciplinary analysis on discrimination and the rights of the child.

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Societies and states are at a crossroad in how children are treated and how their rights are respected and protected. Childrens new position and their strong rights create tensions and challenge the traditional relationships between family and the state. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted unanimously by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1989 and came into force in 1990. Article 2 places states under an obligation to accord primacy to the best interests of the child in all actions concerning children and to ensure and regulate child protection. This book offers a comparative and critical analysis of the implementation of Article 2 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. In order to examine how Article 2 is being implemented, it is essential to have a sound understanding of the obligations it emposes. The opening chapters will explore the precise content of these obligations in terms of the legislative history of the text, its underlying philosophy, its amplification by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, and subsequent authoritative interpretations of it by courts around the world. The book will then drill down into the conceptual and theoretical challenges posed by the very nature of the obligations and will offer in-depth exploration of the long-running 'rights v welfare' debate that has always presented something of a challenge in giving effect to children's rights. Contributors are leading academics in the children's rights field drawn from a wide range of countries and jurisdictions worldwide, including those with common law, civilian and mixed traditions. Disciplines represented in the book include law, psychology, political science, childhood studies, social work and anthropology. By drawing together the various facets of Article 2 and analysing it from a range of perspectives, the volume provides a coherent and comprehensive inter-disciplinary analysis on discrimination and the rights of the child.

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Child rights and international discrimination law : implementing Article 2 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child / Edited by Marit Skivenes and Karl Harald Søvig.

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