ABSTRACT
Thirty years after the adoption of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, this book provides diverse perspectives from countries and regions across the globe on its implementation, critique and potential for reform.
The book revolves around key issues including progress in implementing the CRC worldwide; how to include children in legal proceedings; how to uphold children’s various civil rights; how to best assist children at risk; and discussions surrounding children’s identity rights in a changing familial order. Discussion of the CRC is both compelling and polarizing and the book portrays the enthusiasm around these topics through contrasting and comparative opinions on a range of topics.
The work provides varying perspectives from many different countries and regions, offering a wealth of insight on topics that will be of significant interest to scholars and practitioners working in the areas of children’s rights and justice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|86 pages
Struggles, challenges, and successes in implementing and ratifying the CRC worldwide
part A|14 pages
Worldwide
part B|13 pages
chapter 2|12 pages
The European Union and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
part C|16 pages
Africa
part D|13 pages
Israel
chapter 4|12 pages
Thirty years later
part E|29 pages
United States
part II|54 pages
Children's Participation Rights and Child-Friendly Justice
chapter 8|12 pages
Child-friendly justice
chapter 9|13 pages
Family group conferences in child protection
part III|56 pages
Children's civil rights
chapter 12|14 pages
Upholding children's civil rights as relational rights
part IV|26 pages
Children's right to identity
chapter 15|12 pages
The child's right to know their biological origin in comparative European law
chapter 16|12 pages
Québec's (out)law concerning medically assisted procreation
part V|42 pages
Protecting children at risk