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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
requires States Parties to take all appropriate measures to
implement the rights in the Convention. As we celebrate the 30th
anniversary of the Convention's adoption, focus has shifted onto
the measures being taken at national level to give effect to
children's rights with specific reference to legal incorporation
both direct and indirect. The way in which the CRC is given legal
effect is highly contingent upon the constitutional and legal
systems of individual countries and can best be understood by those
writing from the specific national context. So this books combines
individual contributions that address the experience of legal
incorporation in selected countries by their national experts, with
comparative analysis of the international landscape from the
world's leading authorities on legal implementation of the CRC. The
result is an up-to-date, comparative and international analysis of
the progress made around the world to incorporate the CRC, in the
first comprehensive and analytical presentation of these issues.
Incorporating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into
National Law is a rich resource central to the work of every lawyer
with an interest in the CRC or the incorporation of international
legal instruments.
The articles in this volume shed light on some of the major
tensions in the field of children's rights (such as the ways in
which children's best interests and respect for their autonomy can
be reconciled), challenges (such as how the CRC can be made a
reality in the lives of children in the face of ignorance, apathy
or outright opposition) and critiques (whether children's rights
are a Western imposition or a successful global consensus). Along
the way, the writing covers a myriad of issues, encompassing the
opposition to the CRC in the US; gay parenting: Dr Seuss's take on
children's autonomy; the voice of neonates on their health care;
the role of NGO in supporting child labourers in India, and young
people in detention and more.
This book compares ways in which children's rights in, to, and
through education, formal and informal, are viewed and implemented
in a variety of social and political contexts, aiming to shed light
on how policies and practices can improve equal access to high
quality education in an environment which is respectful of
children's rights. Chapters focus on understanding the
opportunities for and challenges of addressing children's rights to
participation and to inclusion. Authors draw from a variety of
disciplines, including critical and cultural studies of childhood,
and bring internationally comparative policy perspectives to share
nuanced and contrasting examples of ways in which a rights-based
approach to education might empower children and youth. The book
deepens and complicates research on children's education rights,
and will contribute to courses in comparative education, childhood
studies, education policy, and children's rights.
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