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 Toronto’s 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.

'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 Children’s 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 children’s rights could not be more opportune. As a powerful and passionate case for upholding the commitments made to the world’s children, it should be compulsory reading for every head of state.' – Gerison Lansdown, Founder Director of the Children’s Rights Alliance for England, Chair of Child to Child

• About the EditorsContributorsPreface Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, and Michael FreemanPart I. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Children’s Rights and the CRC1. History of Children’s RightsPeter N. Stearns2 Children’s Rights and Women’s Rights: Interrelated and Interdependent Jonathan Todres3. Children’s Rights: A framework to Eliminate Social Exclusion? Critical Discussions and Tensions Didier Reynaert and Rudi Roose4. Fixed Concepts but Changing Conceptions: Understanding the Relationship Between Children and Parents under the CRC John Tobin5. Children's Rights and Well-Being Asher Ben-Arieh and Noam Tarshish6. The Convention on the Rights of the Child after Twenty-five Years: Challenges of Content and ImplementationUrsula KilkellyPart II. Social Science and Theoretical Perspectives on Children’s Rights7. Anthropological Perspectives on Children’s RightsHeather Montgomery8. Sociological Approaches to Children’s RightsVirginia Morrow and Kirrily Pells9. The Psychology of Children’s RightsCharles C. Helwig and Elliot Turiel10. Philosophical Perspectives on Children’s RightsRosalind Ekman Ladd11. Realising Children’s Economic and Social Rights: Towards Rights-Based Global Action StrategiesMichael Nyongesa Wabwile12. The Evolving Capacities of the Child: Neurodevelopment and Children’s RightsDaniel P. KeatingPart III. Children‘s Rights in Legal, Educational, Health Care and Other Settings13. Health and Children’s RightsPriscilla Alderson14. 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. Russell15. Progress toward Worldwide Recognition of the Child’s Human Right to Dignity, Physical Integrity and Protection from HarmBernadette J. Saunders16. The Continuing Abuse and Neglect of Children Neerosh Mudaly and Chris Goddard17. What Stands in the Way of Children’s Exercise of their Criminal Procedural Rights in the United States? Our Evolving and Incomplete Interdisciplinary Understanding Emily Buss18. Implementing Children’s Education Rights in Schools Katherine Covell, R. Brian Howe, and Anne McGillivray19. Children’s Right to Play: From the Margins to the MiddleStuart Lester20. Children with Psychiatric Disabilities: Bioethical and Genomic DilemmasMaya SabatelloPart IV. Global Perspectives on Children’s Rights21. Children and Adolescents in Street Settings: Rights and Realities Marcela Raffaelli and Sílvia H. Koller22. Children’s Education Rights: Global PerspectivesLaura Lundy, Karen Orr, and Harry Shier23. Governance and Children’s Rights in Africa and Latin America: National and Transnational ConstraintsRichard Maclure24. Independent Children’s Rights Institutions Linda C. Reif25. Children’s Rights and Digital Technologies: Introduction to the Discourse and Some Meta-observationsUrs Gasser and Sandra Cortesi26. Working Children as Subjects of Rights: Explaining Children’s Right to Work Manfred Liebel, Philip Meade, and Iven Saadi27. Protection from Sexual Exploitation in the Convention on the Rights of the ChildElizabeth M. Saewyc28. Child Soldiers: The Challenges and Opportunities in Addressing the Rights of Children Affected by WarMyriam Denov and Andi BuccitelliPart V. Children’s Rights in Action29. Children’s Right to Write: Young People’s Participation as Producers of Children’s LiteratureRachel Conrad30. Children’s Free Association and the Collective Exercise of Their RightsBijan Kimiagar and Roger Hart31. Child Participation in Local GovernanceMeda Couzens32. Children’s Rights to Child-Friendly CitiesLouise Chawla and Willem van Vliet33 Visual Methods in Participatory Rights-Based Research with Children and Young People in Indonesia and VanuatuHarriot Beazley34. Child Rights and Practitioner Wrongs: Lessons from Interagency Research in Sierra Leone and KenyaMichael Wessells and Katherine Kostelny 35. Children’s Voices about Children’s Rights: Thoughts from Developmental Psychology Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, Isabelle M. Elisha, and Harriet R. Tenenbaum Index

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 Toronto’s 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.

'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 Children’s 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 children’s rights could not be more opportune. As a powerful and passionate case for upholding the commitments made to the world’s children, it should be compulsory reading for every head of state.' – Gerison Lansdown, Founder Director of the Children’s Rights Alliance for England, Chair of Child to Child

• About the EditorsContributorsPreface Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, and Michael FreemanPart I. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Children’s Rights and the CRC1. History of Children’s RightsPeter N. Stearns2 Children’s Rights and Women’s Rights: Interrelated and Interdependent Jonathan Todres3. Children’s Rights: A framework to Eliminate Social Exclusion? Critical Discussions and Tensions Didier Reynaert and Rudi Roose4. Fixed Concepts but Changing Conceptions: Understanding the Relationship Between Children and Parents under the CRC John Tobin5. Children's Rights and Well-Being Asher Ben-Arieh and Noam Tarshish6. The Convention on the Rights of the Child after Twenty-five Years: Challenges of Content and ImplementationUrsula KilkellyPart II. Social Science and Theoretical Perspectives on Children’s Rights7. Anthropological Perspectives on Children’s RightsHeather Montgomery8. Sociological Approaches to Children’s RightsVirginia Morrow and Kirrily Pells9. The Psychology of Children’s RightsCharles C. Helwig and Elliot Turiel10. Philosophical Perspectives on Children’s RightsRosalind Ekman Ladd11. Realising Children’s Economic and Social Rights: Towards Rights-Based Global Action StrategiesMichael Nyongesa Wabwile12. The Evolving Capacities of the Child: Neurodevelopment and Children’s RightsDaniel P. KeatingPart III. Children‘s Rights in Legal, Educational, Health Care and Other Settings13. Health and Children’s RightsPriscilla Alderson14. 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. Russell15. Progress toward Worldwide Recognition of the Child’s Human Right to Dignity, Physical Integrity and Protection from HarmBernadette J. Saunders16. The Continuing Abuse and Neglect of Children Neerosh Mudaly and Chris Goddard17. What Stands in the Way of Children’s Exercise of their Criminal Procedural Rights in the United States? Our Evolving and Incomplete Interdisciplinary Understanding Emily Buss18. Implementing Children’s Education Rights in Schools Katherine Covell, R. Brian Howe, and Anne McGillivray19. Children’s Right to Play: From the Margins to the MiddleStuart Lester20. Children with Psychiatric Disabilities: Bioethical and Genomic DilemmasMaya SabatelloPart IV. Global Perspectives on Children’s Rights21. Children and Adolescents in Street Settings: Rights and Realities Marcela Raffaelli and Sílvia H. Koller22. Children’s Education Rights: Global PerspectivesLaura Lundy, Karen Orr, and Harry Shier23. Governance and Children’s Rights in Africa and Latin America: National and Transnational ConstraintsRichard Maclure24. Independent Children’s Rights Institutions Linda C. Reif25. Children’s Rights and Digital Technologies: Introduction to the Discourse and Some Meta-observationsUrs Gasser and Sandra Cortesi26. Working Children as Subjects of Rights: Explaining Children’s Right to Work Manfred Liebel, Philip Meade, and Iven Saadi27. Protection from Sexual Exploitation in the Convention on the Rights of the ChildElizabeth M. Saewyc28. Child Soldiers: The Challenges and Opportunities in Addressing the Rights of Children Affected by WarMyriam Denov and Andi BuccitelliPart V. Children’s Rights in Action29. Children’s Right to Write: Young People’s Participation as Producers of Children’s LiteratureRachel Conrad30. Children’s Free Association and the Collective Exercise of Their RightsBijan Kimiagar and Roger Hart31. Child Participation in Local GovernanceMeda Couzens32. Children’s Rights to Child-Friendly CitiesLouise Chawla and Willem van Vliet33 Visual Methods in Participatory Rights-Based Research with Children and Young People in Indonesia and VanuatuHarriot Beazley34. Child Rights and Practitioner Wrongs: Lessons from Interagency Research in Sierra Leone and KenyaMichael Wessells and Katherine Kostelny 35. Children’s Voices about Children’s Rights: Thoughts from Developmental Psychology Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, Isabelle M. Elisha, and Harriet R. Tenenbaum Index

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 Toronto’s 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.

'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 Children’s 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 children’s rights could not be more opportune. As a powerful and passionate case for upholding the commitments made to the world’s children, it should be compulsory reading for every head of state.' – Gerison Lansdown, Founder Director of the Children’s Rights Alliance for England, Chair of Child to Child

• About the EditorsContributorsPreface Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, and Michael FreemanPart I. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Children’s Rights and the CRC1. History of Children’s RightsPeter N. Stearns2 Children’s Rights and Women’s Rights: Interrelated and Interdependent Jonathan Todres3. Children’s Rights: A framework to Eliminate Social Exclusion? Critical Discussions and Tensions Didier Reynaert and Rudi Roose4. Fixed Concepts but Changing Conceptions: Understanding the Relationship Between Children and Parents under the CRC John Tobin5. Children's Rights and Well-Being Asher Ben-Arieh and Noam Tarshish6. The Convention on the Rights of the Child after Twenty-five Years: Challenges of Content and ImplementationUrsula KilkellyPart II. Social Science and Theoretical Perspectives on Children’s Rights7. Anthropological Perspectives on Children’s RightsHeather Montgomery8. Sociological Approaches to Children’s RightsVirginia Morrow and Kirrily Pells9. The Psychology of Children’s RightsCharles C. Helwig and Elliot Turiel10. Philosophical Perspectives on Children’s RightsRosalind Ekman Ladd11. Realising Children’s Economic and Social Rights: Towards Rights-Based Global Action StrategiesMichael Nyongesa Wabwile12. The Evolving Capacities of the Child: Neurodevelopment and Children’s RightsDaniel P. KeatingPart III. Children‘s Rights in Legal, Educational, Health Care and Other Settings13. Health and Children’s RightsPriscilla Alderson14. 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. Russell15. Progress toward Worldwide Recognition of the Child’s Human Right to Dignity, Physical Integrity and Protection from HarmBernadette J. Saunders16. The Continuing Abuse and Neglect of Children Neerosh Mudaly and Chris Goddard17. What Stands in the Way of Children’s Exercise of their Criminal Procedural Rights in the United States? Our Evolving and Incomplete Interdisciplinary Understanding Emily Buss18. Implementing Children’s Education Rights in Schools Katherine Covell, R. Brian Howe, and Anne McGillivray19. Children’s Right to Play: From the Margins to the MiddleStuart Lester20. Children with Psychiatric Disabilities: Bioethical and Genomic DilemmasMaya SabatelloPart IV. Global Perspectives on Children’s Rights21. Children and Adolescents in Street Settings: Rights and Realities Marcela Raffaelli and Sílvia H. Koller22. Children’s Education Rights: Global PerspectivesLaura Lundy, Karen Orr, and Harry Shier23. Governance and Children’s Rights in Africa and Latin America: National and Transnational ConstraintsRichard Maclure24. Independent Children’s Rights Institutions Linda C. Reif25. Children’s Rights and Digital Technologies: Introduction to the Discourse and Some Meta-observationsUrs Gasser and Sandra Cortesi26. Working Children as Subjects of Rights: Explaining Children’s Right to Work Manfred Liebel, Philip Meade, and Iven Saadi27. Protection from Sexual Exploitation in the Convention on the Rights of the ChildElizabeth M. Saewyc28. Child Soldiers: The Challenges and Opportunities in Addressing the Rights of Children Affected by WarMyriam Denov and Andi BuccitelliPart V. Children’s Rights in Action29. Children’s Right to Write: Young People’s Participation as Producers of Children’s LiteratureRachel Conrad30. Children’s Free Association and the Collective Exercise of Their RightsBijan Kimiagar and Roger Hart31. Child Participation in Local GovernanceMeda Couzens32. Children’s Rights to Child-Friendly CitiesLouise Chawla and Willem van Vliet33 Visual Methods in Participatory Rights-Based Research with Children and Young People in Indonesia and VanuatuHarriot Beazley34. Child Rights and Practitioner Wrongs: Lessons from Interagency Research in Sierra Leone and KenyaMichael Wessells and Katherine Kostelny 35. Children’s Voices about Children’s Rights: Thoughts from Developmental Psychology Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, Isabelle M. Elisha, and Harriet R. Tenenbaum Index