This book promotes the potential for children to advocate for themselves. Providing five simple steps, it demonstrates how to create an environment in which the authentic voice and opinions of the ...child are heard and to build platforms to help amplify that voice.
Children: From Rights to Citizenship Earls, Felton
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,
01/2011, Letnik:
633, Številka:
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Journal Article
Recenzirano
This article introduces the themes of children’s rights and citizenship and surveys the authors’ contributions to this volume of The Annals. The volume marks the 20th anniversary of the United ...Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). As the most widely ratified of all human rights covenants, adoption of the CRC represents a landmark achievement in the history of childhood. Yet there remains a noticeable gap in its implementation. The United States has not ratified the CRC. The contributions to this volume take the CRC as a starting point along the path of achieving functional citizenship for children. Issues of child protection, political maturity, deliberative democracy, and intergenerational nondomination are covered. Several examples of empirical research on children’s participation in social and political matters are provided. Recommendations are made to advance the case of child citizenship over the near term. This includes the need to urge the United States to ratify the CRC.
Development of the National Strategy for Action on Children for 2012–2017 implemented in two phases (2012–2014 and 2015–2017) coincided with the Council of Europe Strategies for the Rights of the ...Child for 2012–2015, and the new Council of Europe Strategies for the Rights of the Child for 2016–2022 takes effect in 2016. Author provides description of a new European instrument: the main current challenges in the field of children safeguarding; top areas and measures to respond to these challenges; methods to implement the strategy including based on the recommendations of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to the Member States. The article gives examples of Russia’s accession to the international legal community through the ratification of various conventions that allowed to take domestic measures to ensure international standards to secure children from such crimes as trafficking in children, underage prostitution and por- nography, sexual abuse. The present paper examines opportunity to take into ac- count the new European guidelines and standards in Russian childhood policy and describes action taken in Russia to protect children’s rights as a response to the integrated European challenges, taking into account social and cultural differences.
Отмечается, что разработка «Национальной стратегии действий в интересах детей на 2012–2017 годы», реализуемая в два этапа (2012–2014 и 2015–2017) по времени совпала с принятием Советом Европы «Стратегии по правам ребенка на 2012–2015 годы», а в 2016 году начинает действовать новая «Стратегия Совета Европы на 2016–2022 годы». Приведено описание нового европейского документа: основные современные вызовы в сфере защиты прав ребенка; приоритетные области и меры для ответа на эти вызовы; методы реализации стратегии, в том числе на основе выполнения рекомендаций Комитета Министров Совета Европы государствам-членам. Приводятся примеры присоединения России к международному правовому сообществу через ратификацию различных конвенций, что позволило принять внутригосударственные меры по обеспечению международных стандартов защиты детей от преступлений, связанных с торговлей детьми, детской проституцией и детской порнографией, сексуальной эксплуатацией. Оценивается возможность учета в российской политике в области детства новых европейских ориентиров и стандартов. Описываются принятые в России меры по защите прав детей как ответ на единые европейские вызовы современности с учетом социокультурных различий.
El objetivo de este estudio es poner en tela de juicio las funciones desempeñadas por el actual Departamento de Niñez y Adolescencia de la Defensoría del Pueblo de Paraguay y subrayar la necesidad de ...crear una nueva institución autónoma de defensa de los derechos humanos de la infancia y la adolescencia. En ese contexto, se incorporan las recomendaciones consideradas como esenciales para que esta figura cuente con funciones reales de garantía de los derechos de los niños, niñas y adolescentes en Paraguay.
Human rights are seriously affected by climate change, but children and children's human rights are of most concern. The purpose of this article is to show how climate change and the associated ...phenomena harm children and their rights. The United Nations Covention on the Rights of the Child is the most universally ratified human rights treaty in the world. This research examines the rights enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in the light of climate change effects. It identifies which children's rights are most affected by climate change. The article identifies how, which and to what extent rights listed in the covenant are undermined by sudden climate change events, as well as by the gradual consequences of climate change. It shifts the perspective on how we address climate change consequences: from human impacts to real human rights' violations.
Child labour remains a widespread problem around the world. Over 200 million children can be regarded as child labourers, and about 10 million children are involved in producing either agricultural ...or manufactured products for export. Franziska Humbert explores the status of child labour in international law. Offering a wide-ranging analysis of the problem, she explores the various UN and ILO instruments and reveals the weaknesses of the current frameworks installed by these bodies to protect children from economic exploitation. After assessing to what extent trade measures such as conditionalities, labelling and trade restrictions and promotional activities can reduce child labour, she suggests an alternative legal framework which takes into account the needs of children.
Together, the UN Convention on Rights of the Child and the USA’s National Association of School Psychologists’ (NASP) Principles for Professional Ethics (2010a) serve as aspirational documents that ...place a child’s right to healthy development as the ultimate priority, regardless of the child’s circumstances. This article outlines how school psychologists can assess and support progress towards the aspiration that children have equitable access to services that promote healthy development regardless of parental limitations.
There is little in the existing refugee or child welfare literature on the circumstances and needs of unaccompanied asylum-seeking and refugee children living in private foster care in the UK. This ...article reports on what these young people themselves have to say about their experiences of such placements. Their stories have been extrapolated from the findings of a narrative-based research project with 29 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children that explored the ways in which they perceived and experienced the rights of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC, 1989). The findings suggest the existence of a negative relationship between these rights and systems of monitoring and protection in the UK, and the vulnerability of unaccompanied children in private foster care to neglect, material hardship, abuse and exploitation.
At the heart of the Tory campaign to reduce the budget deficit has been a wide-reaching welfare reform agenda, the centrepiece of which is the benefit cap. The cap, implemented under the Welfare ...Reform Act 2012 and the Benefit Cap Regulations 2012, limits the total amount of benefits that a non-working household can receive to L500 per week. This limit applies regardless of family size or circumstances, and was calculated to be equivalent to the average earnings of a working household.
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