While young children's rights have received considerable attention
and have accordingly advanced over the past two decades, the rights
of adolescents have been neglected. This manifests itself in
pervasive gender-based violence, widespread youth disaffection and
unemployment, concerning levels of self-abuse, violence and
antisocial engagement, and serious mental and physical health
deficits. The cost of inaction on these issues is likely to be
dramatic in terms of human suffering, lost social and economic
opportunities, and threats to global peace and security. Across the
range of disciplines that make up contemporary human rights, from
law and social advocacy to global health, history, economics,
sociology, politics, and psychology, it is time, the contributors
of this volume contend, for adolescent rights to occupy a coherent
place of their own. Human Rights and Adolescence presents a
multifaceted inquiry into the global circumstances of adolescents,
focusing on the human rights challenges and socioeconomic obstacles
young adults face. Contributors use new research to advance
feasible solutions and timely recommendations for a wide range of
issues spanning all continents, from relevant international legal
norms to neuropsychological adolescent brain development, gender
discrimination in Indian education to Colombian child soldier
recruitment, stigmatization of Roma youth in Europe to economic
disempowerment of Middle Eastern and South African adolescents.
Taken together, the research emphasizes the importance of dedicated
attention to adolescence as a distinctive and critical phase of
development between childhood and adulthood and outlines the task
of building on the potential of adolescents while providing support
for the challenges they experience. Contributors: Theresa S.
Betancourt, Jacqueline Bhabha, Krishna Bose, Neera Burra, Malcolm
Bush, Jocelyn DeJong, Elizabeth Gibbons, Katrina Hann, Mary Kawar,
Orla Kelly, David Mark, Margareta Matache, Clea McNeely, Glaudine
Mtshali, Katie Naeve, Elizabeth A. Newnham, Victor Pineda, Irene
Rizzini, Elena Rozzi, Christian Salazar Volkmann, Shantha Sinha,
Laurence Steinberg, Kerry Thompson, Jean Zermatten, Moses Zombo.
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