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Children's Human Rights
Progress and Challenges for Children Worldwide
Children's Human Rights
Progress and Challenges for Children Worldwide
Description
Children's human rights are regularly violated around the world. We hear about graphic examples including child soldiers, child prostitutes, and children sold into slavery, but hungry, sick, and orphaned children are equally at risk and more prevalent. In the United States, children suffer similar abuses, but some are unique to the U.S. justice system. Unlike most of the rest of the world, the U.S. is a well-developed western nation in which juvenile offenders can be tried as adults and sentenced to death. This book brings together a wide array of original essays from a variety of academic and practitioner perspectives on human rights and the status of children. The details are disturbing; the message, powerful: We must vigorously extend the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the most vulnerable humans of all-the children of the world, starting at home in the United States.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Introduction: A Human Right's Approach to the Needs of Children
Part 3 I Children's Rights in International Law
Chapter 4 The Right of the Child to Development
Chapter 5 Transforming Visions into Reality: The Convention on the Rights of the Child
Chapter 6 Strengthening the Framework for Enforcing Children's Rights: An Integrated Approach
Part 7 II Children in a Dangerous World
Chapter 8 The Problem of Sexual Trafficking in Post-Communist Europe
Chapter 9 Three Prints in the Dirt: Child Soldiers and Human Rights
Chapter 10 Children's Rights and the Tenuousness of Local Conditions: A Case Study of Nicaragua
Chapter 11 Protecting Children on the Margins: Social Justice and Community Building
Part 12 III Children's Rights in the United States
Chapter 13 Child Farm Workers in United States Agriculture
Chapter 14 Human Rights and Juvenile Justice in the United States
Chapter 15 The Challenges of Human Rights Education and the Impact on Children's Rights
Chapter 16 Conclusion: Some Progress, Many Challenges
Product details
| Published | Jun 22 2005 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 288 |
| ISBN | 9780742573079 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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