The Child's Right to Development

AvNoam Peleg

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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This book provides a comprehensive account of how child development and the right to development of children have been understood in international children's rights law. It argues that any conceptions of childhood focussed either on children's future as adults, or on children's lives in the present, overlook the hybridity of children's lived experiences. The book therefore suggests a new conception of childhood - namely, 'hybrid childhood' - which accommodates respect for children's agency and human dignity in the present, in the process of growth, and in the outcomes of this process when the child becomes an adult. Consequently, and building on the capability approach's idea of human development, the book presents a radical new interpretation of the child's right to development under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It offers a comprehensive interpretation of the right to development, which is one of the four guiding principles of the Convention.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-07-25
Mått:156 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt:510 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:262
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107094529

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Noam Peleg is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, where he researches and teaches international children's rights law and family law. He has published and presented widely on children's rights matters and also has consulted for non-governmental organisations in the United Kingdom and Australia. Noam is the book review editor and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Children's Rights. Before moving to academia, Peleg practised law in several human rights NGOs, where he specialised in representing children in courts.

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'The Child's Right to Development is an extremely welcome addition to the field of children's rights scholarship. The right to development is fundamental to understanding the Convention on the Rights of the Child but has, to date, been neglected completely in research and scholarship. Dr Peleg's detailed and thoughtful legal analysis situates the right within wider childhood theory and child development practice. This scholarly critique is a must read for every children's rights academic or student.' Laura Lundy, Co-Editor in Chief International Journal of Children's Rights; Co-Director, Centre for Children's Rights, Queen's University Belfast

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Embedding the protection of 'child development' into international children's rights law; 2. Creating the right to development of children; 3. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child's interpretation of the right to development; 4. Exploring the meanings of human and child development; 5. A new framework for analysing the child's right to development; Conclusion.