scholarly journals INTERNATIONAL REGIMES FOR CHILD RIGHTS

2018 ◽  
pp. 229-236
Author(s):  
Rachana Raval ◽  
Bhavesh Bharad
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Court System ◽  
Rights Of The Child

It was not until the late nineteenth century that a nascent children‘s rights protection movement countered the widely held view that children were mainly quasi property and economic assets. In the United States, the progressive movement challenged courts reluctance to interfere in family matters, promoted broad child welfare reforms and was successful in having laws passed to regulate child labor and provide for compulsory education. It also raised awareness of children‘s issues and established a juvenile court system. Another push for children‘s rights occurred in the 1960s and 1970s, when children were viewed by some advocates as victims of discrimination or as an oppressed group. In the international context, ―the growth of children‘s rights in international and transnational law has been identified as a striking change in the post-war legal landscape. 1 Children are a ―supremely important nation and international asset of the future well-being of the world depends on how the children grow & develop. United Nations adopted a resolution which proclaimed 1979 as an international year of the child. In consequence of this proclamation, In 1979, the Government of Polland submitted a draft on the rights of child for adoption by U.N. General Assembly as a lasting memorial year of the child after revised version & a decade campaigning, the UN General Assembly adopted the convention on the rights of the child on November 20 1989 and ratified by 135 nations including India.

scholarly journals Children’s Rights in the Indonesian Oil Palm Industry: Improving Company Respect for the Rights of the Child

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 500
Author(s):  
Stephany Iriana Pasaribu ◽  
Frank Vanclay
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Palm Oil ◽  
Oil Palm ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Social License

Although companies have many direct and indirect impacts on the lives of children, discussion of the responsibility of business to respect the rights of children has primarily focused on child labor. Using UNICEF’s Children’s Rights and Business Principles as a framework for our analysis, we considered the activities of oil palm plantation companies operating in Indonesia. Our data come from key informant interviews and reflection on two programs established to promote respect for children’s rights in the Indonesian palm oil industry: one by Pusat Kajian Perlindungan Anak (PKPA) (Center for Child Study and Protection); and one by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in conjunction with UNICEF. We considered: how plantation company activities impacted children’s lives; how companies demonstrated respect for children’s rights; and how observance of children’s rights can be improved. We discuss four problematic issues: getting company commitments to children’s rights into policy and practice; having a strong business case for respecting human rights and children’s rights; contradictory objectives within companies; and complexities around children in the workplace. We argue that a children’s rights based approach should be applied to the activities of all organizations. This children’s rights lens is needed to overcome the invisibility of children in society and industry, and to address the root causes of human rights harms. We note that respecting children’s rights will likely contribute to getting a social license to operate and grow.

scholarly journals Integrating Sustainable Development and Children’s Rights: A Case Study on Wales

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Rhian Croke ◽  
Helen Dale ◽  
Ally Dunhill ◽  
Arwyn Roberts ◽  
Malvika Unnithan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Deliberative Processes

The global disconnect between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), has been described as ‘a missed opportunity’. Since devolution, the Welsh Government has actively pursued a ‘sustainable development’ and a ‘children’s rights’ agenda. However, until recently, these separate agendas also did not contribute to each other, although they culminated in two radical and innovative pieces of legislation; the Rights of Children and Young Persons (Wales) Measure (2013) and the Well-being and Future Generations (Wales) Act (2015). This article offers a case study that draws upon the SDGs and the CRC and considers how recent guidance to Welsh public bodies for implementation attempts to contribute to a more integrated approach. It suggests that successful integration requires recognition of the importance of including children in deliberative processes, using both formal mechanisms, such as local authority youth forums, pupil councils and a national youth parliament, and informal mechanisms, such as child-led research, that enable children to initiate and influence sustainable change.

scholarly journals Family Support as a right of the child

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Dolan ◽  
Nevenca Zegarac ◽  
Jelena Arsic
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship

This paper considers Family Support as a fundamental right of the child. It examines the relationship between the well-being of the child as the core concept of contemporary legal and welfare systems and family as a vital institution in society for the protection, development and ensuring the overall well-being of the child. Considering the fact that international legal standards recognise that children’s rights are best met in the family environment, the paper analyses what kind of support is being provided to families by the modern societies in the exercising of children’s rights and with what rhetoric and outcomes. Family Support is also considered as a specific, theoretically grounded and empirically tested practical approach to exercising and protecting the rights of the child. Finally, international legal standards are observed in the context of contemporary theory and practice of Family Support, while the conclusion provides the implications of such an approach.

Epilogue

Troublemakers ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 209-214
Author(s):  
Kathryn Schumaker
Keyword(s):  
Racial Disparities ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
New Student ◽  
A Current ◽  
Development Of Students

The epilogue explains how the development of students’ rights between the 1960s and the 1980s shaped understandings of children’s rights more broadly. The epilogue discusses the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a United Nations treaty that the United States has refused to ratify, and argues that the Convention conflicts with understandings of children’s rights as expressed by American constitutional law. The epilogue then shows how a current students’ rights case from Detroit, Gary B. v. Snyder, which claims a right to literacy, shows how difficult it has become for students to make claims in relation to racial disparities. The epilogue then discusses what scholars call the “school-to-prison pipeline,” which supports the theory that the development of students’ rights has reinforced rather than challenged existing racial disparities. Finally, the epilogue briefly discusses the ideas about rights and schooling embodied by a new student movement against gun violence.

Introduction: Children’s Rights as Human Rights

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Richard P. Hiskes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World

The world does not really believe that human rights pertain to children. This is so in spite of the fact that the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has been ratified by all nations worldwide except for one, the United States. This book explores the reasons behind the US refusal in ...

Children's Rights, Family Rights

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-188
Author(s):  
Karen M. Staller
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
The Relationship

In this article I explore the intersections of children's human rights, social policy, and qualitative inquiry from a social work perspective. First, I consider the relationship between human rights work and social work. Second, I argue that children add complexity to the human rights debate. In doing so, I briefly examine the conflict between children's rights as developed in the United States and that of the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child. Third, I turn to a specific qualitative research project in which a team of researchers conducted an in-depth study of the prosecution of child sexual abuse in one U.S. jurisdiction. I argue that the findings from this study illustrate how qualitative inquiry can reveal conflicting and often hidden value trade-offs that must be addressed when enacting and enforcing children's human rights. This study demonstrates what qualitative inquiry has to offer policy advocates who seek to promote children's human rights.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child – 30th Anniversary

2020 ◽  
Vol 595 (8) ◽  
pp. 3-16
Author(s):  
Anna Górka-Strzałkowska
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
30Th Anniversary ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire Society ◽  
United Nations General Assembly

The issue of children’s rights is extensive and multi-threaded. Studies on this subject show different perspectives and views, referring to various areas of children’s functioning and development. The article presents the perspective of children’s rights in the activities of organizations, local governments, educational and culture institutions on the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Declaration of the Rights of the Child was created, adopted on November 20, 1959 by the United Nations General Assembly, which developed the scope of children’s rights. However, it still had no legal value. It was only the Convention on the Rights of the Child, established on the initiative of Poland on November 20, 1989, that became a global constitution protecting children all over the world. The events related to the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention became the culmination of the contemporary activities undertaken to mobilize the entire society to fight for children’s rights. These initiatives enabled the presentation of positions and views on the issue of the child. In a broad sense, they allowed the possibility of implementing program changes to improve the situation of children not only in Poland, but also in the world.

The New Complaints Mechanism for the Convention on the Rights of the Child

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Egan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Optional Protocol ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Child Friendly

The un General Assembly has recently adopted a third Optional Protocol to the crc, providing for an individual complaint mechanism for children. The product of a sustained campaign on the part of ngos and children’s rights advocates, the Protocol achieves a certain parity of esteem for children vis-à-vis complainants under other core un human rights instruments by enabling them to make complaints specifically with respect to rights guaranteed by the Convention and its two substantive protocols. This article examines the terms of this new procedure in the light of its drafting history and explains why the resulting text has in many respects disappointed in terms of delivering a much-hoped for “child-friendly” complaint mechanism for children.

Children's Rights: How Much Do Zimbabwe Urban Secondary School Pupils Know?

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pesanayi Gwirayi ◽  
Almon Shumba
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Empowerment Theory ◽  
Urban District ◽  
Female Age ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Being There ◽  
Age Range

Abstract Research shows that the violation of the rights of the child manifests in various forms in our society. is study sought to investigate children's awareness about their rights and organisations which deal with their rights in Zimbabwean schools. The study is informed by the Empowerment Theory. Data were collected from a randomly selected sample of 376 secondary school children (200 male, 176 female; age range 12 to 16 years) from 3 schools in Gweru Urban District of Zimbabwe. Children were asked to list their rights and organisations which deal with child rights on given worksheets. The study found that most of the children were not aware about their rights and organisations which deal with their rights. The introduction of Children's Rights as a subject in schools can help increase children's safety, protection and well-being. There is also need to put more thrust on workshops and seminars on Children's Rights in Zimbabwean schools.

scholarly journals Bycie dziecka w Polsce „dobrej zmiany”– między Konwencją o Prawach Dziecka a rzeczywistością

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 114-124
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Dagiel ◽  
Małgorzata Kowalik-Olubińska
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Family State

The aim of the authors is to show the situation of the child in contemporary Poland at a time of a policy of ‘good change’ viewed through the lens of children’s rights guaranteed by the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The authors analysed a discourse of the Ombudsmen for Children’s interventions in order to reconstruct the image of being of the child in a new socio-political reality in Poland. The analysis shows the disagreement between the assumptions of the pro-family state policy and the situation of the child in Poland. Concern about child welfare presented by the governmental authorities is apparent and insufficient, which adversely affects children’s well-being and the quality of their lives.

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