In 1973, Hillary Rodham Clinton famously stated that "children's
rights" is a slogan in search of a definition, used to bolster
various arguments for peace and for specific rights, but without
any coherent conception of children as political beings. In 1989,
the United Nations established the basis for this definition in the
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), a document every
nation in the world, save the United States, has ratified. Still,
human rights theorists, scholars, and jurists continue to disagree
as to the theoretical justification for children's human rights. In
Suffer the Children, Richard P. Hiskes establishes the first
substantive theoretical foundation for the human rights of
children. As Hiskes argues, recognizing the rights of children
fundamentally alters the meaning and usefulness of human rights in
a global context. Ironically, the case for children's rights, as
Hiskes argues, should be seen as the evolution, distillation, or
"maturing" of human rights in general. Children's human rights will
end the debate about whether groups can have rights because,
globally, many rights claims today are precisely group claims,
including those from children. Moreover, Hiskes provides a new
critical assessment of the United Nations CRC and explores child
activism for human rights worldwide-in courts, on social networks,
and in public demonstrations-to show how children are already
claiming their rights in ways that will fundamentally change the
meaning both of rights themselves and of democratic processes.
Giving children rights in a way that avoids privileging any single
cultural experience of children would make rights no longer a
"Western," individualistic idea, but a truly global one.
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