Handbook of Children's Rights

'A quarter of a century after the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, this universally endorsed treaty languishes in public policy and professional practice. By giving access to this historic manifesto, the Handbook of Childrens Rights shines light on the last frontier of the human rights movement.' Felton Earls, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 'Achieving the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires systematic investment in children across two decades of life. This rich volume invites us to put children and adolescents at the center, rather than our academic disciplines, and demonstrates the richness of a cross-sectoral approach to fulfilling child and adolescent rights.' Judith Diers, Ph.D., Chief, Adolescent Development and Participation, UNICEF 'Human rights are under threat as rarely before in the modern era. This illuminating and wide-ranging volume providing new perspectives on the role, interpretation, and application of childrens rights could not be more opportune. As a powerful and passionate case for upholding the commitments made to the worlds children, it should be compulsory reading for every head of state.' Gerison Lansdown, Founder Director of the Childrens Rights Alliance for England, Chair of Child to Child

Martin D. Ruck is Professor of Psychology and Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Michele Peterson-Badali is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development at the University of Torontos Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). Michael Freeman is Professor Emeritus at the University College London Laws and Honorary Research Professor at the Liverpool Law School of the University of Liverpool.

About the Editors Contributors Preface Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, and Michael Freeman Part I. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Childrens Rights and the CRC 1. History of Childrens Rights Peter N. Stearns 2 Childrens Rights and Womens Rights: Interrelated and Interdependent Jonathan Todres 3. Childrens Rights: A framework to Eliminate Social Exclusion? Critical Discussions and Tensions Didier Reynaert and Rudi Roose 4. Fixed Concepts but Changing Conceptions: Understanding the Relationship Between Children and Parents under the CRC John Tobin 5. Children's Rights and Well-Being Asher Ben-Arieh and Noam Tarshish 6. The Convention on the Rights of the Child after Twenty-five Years: Challenges of Content and Implementation Ursula Kilkelly Part II. Social Science and Theoretical Perspectives on Childrens Rights 7. Anthropological Perspectives on Childrens Rights Heather Montgomery 8. Sociological Approaches to Childrens Rights Virginia Morrow and Kirrily Pells 9. The Psychology of Childrens Rights Charles C. Helwig and Elliot Turiel 10. Philosophical Perspectives on Childrens Rights Rosalind Ekman Ladd 11. Realising Childrens Economic and Social Rights: Towards Rights-Based Global Action Strategies Michael Nyongesa Wabwile 12. The Evolving Capacities of the Child: Neurodevelopment and Childrens Rights Daniel P. Keating Part III. Childrens Rights in Legal, Educational, Health Care and Other Settings 13. Health and Childrens Rights Priscilla Alderson 14. The Right to Be Who You Are: Competing Tensions among Protection, Survival, and Participation Related to Youth Sexuality and Gender Stacey S. Horn, Christina Peter, and Stephen T. Russell 15. Progress toward Worldwide Recognition of the Childs Human Right to Dignity, Physical Integrity and Protection from Harm Bernadette J. Saunders 16. The Continuing Abuse and Neglect of Children Neerosh Mudaly and Chris Goddard 17. What Stands in the Way of Childrens Exercise of their Criminal Procedural Rights in the United States? Our Evolving and Incomplete Interdisciplinary Understanding Emily Buss 18. Implementing Childrens Education Rights in Schools Katherine Covell, R. Brian Howe, and Anne McGillivray 19. Childrens Right to Play: From the Margins to the Middle Stuart Lester 20. Children with Psychiatric Disabilities: Bioethical and Genomic Dilemmas Maya Sabatello Part IV. Global Perspectives on Childrens Rights 21. Children and Adolescents in Street Settings: Rights and Realities Marcela Raffaelli and Slvia H. Koller 22. Childrens Education Rights: Global Perspectives Laura Lundy, Karen Orr, and Harry Shier 23. Governance and Childrens Rights in Africa and Latin America: National and Transnational Constraints Richard Maclure 24. Independent Childrens Rights Institutions Linda C. Reif 25. Childrens Rights and Digital Technologies: Introduction to the Discourse and Some Meta-observations Urs Gasser and Sandra Cortesi 26. Working Children as Subjects of Rights: Explaining Childrens Right to Work Manfred Liebel, Philip Meade, and Iven Saadi 27. Protection from Sexual Exploitation in the Convention on the Rights of the Child Elizabeth M. Saewyc 28. Child Soldiers: The Challenges and Opportunities in Addressing the Rights of Children Affected by War Myriam Denov and Andi Buccitelli Part V. Childrens Rights in Action 29. Childrens Right to Write: Young Peoples Participation as Producers of Childrens Literature Rachel Conrad 30. Childrens Free Association and the Collective Exercise of Their Rights Bijan Kimiagar and Roger Hart 31. Child Participation in Local Governance Meda Couzens 32. Childrens Rights to Child-Friendly Cities Louise Chawla and Willem van Vliet 33 Visual Methods in Participatory Rights-Based Research with Children and Young People in Indonesia and Vanuatu Harriot Beazley 34. C